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? asked in Social ScienceGender Studies · 10 years ago

How do women have "no responsibility"?

Often on GWS I've seen the statement that women have equal rights but "no responsibility." I've always wondered how this is so. Since the law is gender neutral in terms of responsibility (such as gender does not absolve you of paying mortgages, credit cards, having insurance, etc), I find it hard to believe that women "have no responsibility."

And if some women lack personal responsibility, can the anecdotal behavior of a few individuals really generalize back to the entire population of women (regardless of age, race, religion, nationality)?

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  • ?
    Lv 6
    10 years ago
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    The fact that women have many..many..special rights, laws, and privileges over men (due to feminism) and are very rarely (if ever) held accountable for their actions.

    Look at how feminist groups are trying to close down women's prison for example.. And it looks like there's a very high chance that the state will cater to the feminists' demand.

    http://www.avoiceformen.com/2011/06/07/it-is-now-s...

    http://www.fawcettsociety.org.uk/index.asp?PageID=...

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13666066

    Women pretty much have the same responsibilities as children and more rights than adult.

    -VAWA law (which only protect women)

    -The right to vote without having to register for Select Service

    -Female criminals serve less jail times for same crimes

    -Affirmative actions & quotas for women

    -Tons of "women only" stuff, like: "women only" scholarships; Council on Women & Girl; Women's Business Ownership Assistance etc..etc..

    -Far more research and funding are going into women's health than men's.

    -Education system favor female over male

    -Women can opt out of parental responsibilities but men can't (women have three ways to avoid parental responsibilities)

    -Bias divorce laws

    etc...etc.. a few of many..many.. examples.

  • 7 years ago

    which is exactly what a women would say, my apologies, if you are actually male , but , some men are just so exhausted,with the games,the lack of responsibility, the insults and the bollocks to pay any attention, to how manipulative, selfish, emotionally closed( except when it suits them) SOME WOMEN can be, that they can be bothered anymore

    just wait for the lazy profiling response

  • 5 years ago

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  • Kosh
    Lv 5
    10 years ago

    What are your sources for this? Just seen on this board or do you see it anywhere else? And can you reference some of the posts? I would be curious to see some of these statements.

    I just don't see this being said. Not to say it isn't being said in some circles, but none of which I know. I would be curious where you're hearing such things.

    You're right that a FEW INDIVIDUALS shirk responsibility. This is true of both genders. And each gender will use whatever socially bestowed gender advantages they can find to shirk responsibility. People do this with any advantage, also - not ONLY gender.

    Ksnake, you may be right about "malcontents" but I wouldn't think most of them are single. Most of the men I know with the lowest opinions of women are MARRIED.

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  • 7 years ago

    If you don't believe gender does not absolve you of paying a mortgage, you haven't sat in on enough divorce courts i know dozens of women, children grown or in school that do nothing but play, have lunches etc while their ex husbands foot the bio for their home and life. Doesn't matter if he was an extraordinary father, and she cheated on him with 20 men, she gets rewarded, and he gets his kids kidnapped from him by the law for no other reason than he has a penis. The litmus test is this ladies. Would you switch places with a man? ask men for dates, pay for the dates , the marriage etc etc. I think not.

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  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    Hahahaha

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    7 years ago

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  • ?
    Lv 6
    6 years ago

    One other thing other people forgot is different criteria for acceptance to polic, army, university, fireman,etc. In those cases the bar is lowered so that women can succeed.

  • ?
    Lv 5
    10 years ago

    Not all women of course but personally I have been in a couple relationships where she would fight tooth and nail to win an argument ..sometimes even when caught "red handed",some women can't bring themselves to admit they are wrong.

    Also there are old sayings that have been around as long as I can remember .. "women are always right".. and "husbands.. want a happy marriage?.. admit you're wrong and move on" sound familiar? and many women actually believe that.

    But despite any delusions people have,women have responsibility's,some women handle them and some ride the coat tails of some odd double standard because they were conditioned by society to think like that.

    Edit:Dane Cook - Why Women Win Fights (notice how women go nuts when he says "women win arguments",they love being told they are always right)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSUelcpopU8

  • 10 years ago

    I don't know where the idea comes from. It does seem as though people will look to make excuses for women sometimes for bad behavior more than they will for men and hold them less accountable, but this is by no means a universal truth and I don't see any way it completely removes responsibility from women. At most, women have less responsibility than men, not none at all (not saying I agree with that either).

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