Gender

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/243922/making-gender-irrelevant-dennis-prager

I have long wondered when we would reach the point that sex doesn’t matter. By “sex” I mean gender. If we were truly fair then it wouldn’t matter if a person were male or female. But, it’s not possible to be completely unbiased to gender. Because then all kinds of things would change. You could no longer offer shirts that buttoned on one side vs. the other because everyone would expect to button their shirts the same way. “Men’s” Business suits could no longer be tailored for a man’s chest or body type. They would have to be marketed to women as well and tailored individually to fit cup sizes and women’s derrieres.

Women have complained for a long time about the injustice of paying more to dry-clean a women’s shirt than a man’s shirt; or to pay for alterations for a man vs. woman’s pair of slacks. And, why is it that insurance companies cover Viagra because it’s a men’s “quality of life” issue, but had to be sued to cover birth control for women if they wanted it. Birth control ISN’T a quality of life issue?

Department stores would have to change their signage from “Men’s” and “Women’s” to “Shirts”, Shoes” and “Pants”. Little girls could discover the joy of wearing underwear with a handy hole in the front. Men could proudly buy bras for their “man-boobs” without sneaking into the Intimates department at Nordstrom. We’d have to rename the store “Victor and Victoria’s Secrets”.

The female runner who was disqualified from winning the race in Africa because it was discovered that she had male internal organs could be re-instated as the race winner because she could compete in any race she wanted. There would be no more need to translate the signs on restrooms. We’d all have Ally McBeal bathrooms and have to display our privates (or not) to the rest of the public relieving themselves.

And, at some point we’d no longer have to make different colored blankets or diapers to distinguish babies in the hospital. Pink would be fine for football players and no one would think twice about men carrying purses.

The problem with all this gender fairness is that men and women ARE different. We have different parts, different brains, different abilities and different quirks. I’ll tell you what; when WOMEN can create a baby inside their body without needing sperm obtained from a man AND when MEN can produce a child by labor and delivery through their own body we’ll call the genders balanced.