Female Dominance

[franceslievens]

Michael Buerk, newsreader at that British broadcasting institution called the BBC, is quite certain women are taking over the world. Not only do they hold chief posts at diverse broadcasting networks and hence decide what we see and hear on tv and radio, but men are (gasp!) feminizing. Multitasking is the norm and women perform better on this. "Oh no!" Buerk says, "Men will become superfluous and their only task will be to provide semen."
I wish I was living in Buerk's world, because frankly I hardly can believe the influence of women is as dominating as he says it is. It might be a consequence of a difference in perception: once you are focused on something you see it everywhere. I'm more focused on the still prevailing male dominance, so I won't see it when the females are starting to take over.
And that's a load of crap to try and comprehend, to try and explain someone who so clearly states he doesn't understand women. For Buerk typically male characteristics are classified as more important than what is considered typically female. I say considering something typically male or female is stupid to begin with. Yes certain things are more easily met in a woman than in a man, but it isn't so that men and women are that different that what you, Mr Buerk, consider as valuable male behaviour will dissapear when there's a woman on top.

Just the other day my newspaper wrote that the number of women in top management positions is declining again. I think Michael Buerk can sleep in peace.

Comments

Thank you so much!

[sister-luck.livejournal.com]

I was so close to making a post about this myself!

Favourite quote to hate:

"All they are is sperm donors, and most women aren't going to want an unemployable sperm donor loafing around and making the house look untidy."

GAH! So, that's his perception of the dad at home? Well, in my book (and my experience) that sperm donor had better do some cleaning up! (And while he's at it take care of the laundry, the ironing and the cooking.)

[frances-lievens.livejournal.com]

What I find very amusing is that he not only has a bad view on women, but also on men, because when they stay at home they don't do shit, according to Buerk. Very strange view indeed and it makes me very very angry.

[candlelightfrot.livejournal.com]

Back in about 1967 I wrote a speech for a 6th grade class project, entitled, "Why Women Will Rule the World." It didn't seem to be very popular among the guys in my class; but the nun seemed to like it. Maybe so too the girls in our class; because in the voting it did come down to me and one other guy for best speech. He won out the next week for his speech about finding an honorable peace in Viet Nam. Go figure.... Roman Catholic patriarchal values won out in the end.

Well, I voted for his speech myself.

[frances-lievens.livejournal.com]

Of course those values will win out. Woman on top? Hah! She only gets there by mimicking behaviour that's considered manly and not because of some inherent female characteristics.

(But this is my opinion -- partly a consequence of growing up in a family of women...)