The Romans believed that the heart of the Roman Empire was
family; strong families meant a strong Rome. To a point, sociology and history agrees.
Society and its underpinning culture, is an expression on a
grand scale of your nation’s average family unit.
Culture could be considered a representation of what your
nation’s average-family ideals were during that nation’s early development, ideals
that were then built upon over time by their offspring. Culture permeates and helps create National Identity,
and National Identity is attached to our Personal Identity.
As a more relatable example, culture might be considered the
societal equivalent of that parental voice you hear in your head long after you
have left the home, long after your parents have passed. It’s a voice that even
when you don’t agree with its outdated values, you still hear.
One of the challenges faced by people seeking gender equality
is that Gender Role is attached to culture. Why is that an issue?
Gender Role is built on the idea of gender equity, not
gender equality. The very purpose of
Gender Role is to acknowledge biological difference between males and females and
to assign task and role based on survival-focused thinking, thinking that isn't as useful in a world where women dying in childbirth and men dying fending off wolves and bears, is no longer common place. In short, Gender Role by its very nature
creates gender inequality.
As Gender Role far predates Gender Equality thinking, culturally
each of our families is to some degree being influenced against the equal
treatment of the genders. How many times
have you thought that a man or woman should behave a certain way? This is cultural Gender Role speaking.
However, that influence does not only travel in one
direction.
Our family unit and society as a whole, is a constantly
evolving structure. We as a people put
our thoughts, hopes, dreams and bias out into society. We embed it into our government, our
education institutions, our religious institutions, our media, as well as our
literary, TV, movie, musical and artistic products. Those institutions, those constructs, feed
those family goals and ideals back into the nation to pass on and recreate the
identity of each following generation. It
is a cycle, family influencing institution, institution influencing family and
the outcome of that cycle creates new societal norms.
Once you have a basic understanding of this, once you
believe this, you can essentially have a Neo in The Matrix moment:
Or in other words, there are no groups other than family.
The failure of most equality ideology is that it portrays
the opposite gender as a grand nemesis, or alternatively applies an institutional
face acting on behalf of a gender that must be fought as an enemy—
Patriarchy.
Feminism.
But there are no overarching groups. There are only sons, fathers, daughters,
mothers, brothers and sisters. What this
means is if you see injustice, if you see inequality and if you want to change
the world—then start at home with your family.
If you think your home is ok, speak to your friends, then your
neighbours, then their neighbours and tell them to do the same with their
families because fundamentally, that’s where societal change begins.
In a world that grows
ever smaller, it is more important than ever not just to fight for your beliefs, but to befriend
for them.
Because if we live in a world where culture and society are
just an extension of family, our ideals are more important than any ideology. In a world that is an extension of family, there is no ‘them’, there is only ‘us’.
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