Washtimes - Inside the Beltway
Taking a seat at the recent U.N. Commission on the Status of Women — where the focus was on the role of men and boys in achieving gender equality — was Janice Shaw Crouse, a senior fellow at the Beverly LaHaye Institute.
"The bottom line was clearly stated: We must nurture boys into developing more feminine characteristics — gentleness, compassion and tenderness, among others — and train them away from the more typically male aggressive and competitive behavior," she says.
But Mrs. Crouse concedes while there's "nothing wrong with masculine gentleness, compassion and tenderness," given the problems in today's world "there is also nothing wrong with competitiveness or aggressiveness within bounds ...
"And, there is definitely nothing wrong with masculinity (boys being boys and men being men) or with femininity (girls being girls and women being women)."
What is gender equality? It is believing men and women to be the same. Men and women are not the same. Gender equity is another matter entirely. Gender equity is just. Gender equality contradicts the truths of biology, psychology, ontology and probably some other ologies I've forgotten.
Using the terms equality and equity interchangeably has done great harm to human dignity and caused a few generations, mine included, to be seriously confused about gender roles. Anyone who is in their late 20's or early 30's and dating would probably agree with me.
Here's an unrelated but humorous aside that a friend related to me from his experience in England. An uber-lib nun, apparently in favor of the ordination of women, says to the parish priest, "Why do I have to have what you have between your legs in order to celebrate Mass?"
The priest replies, "Good God, woman, I use my hands!"
