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Tristan -> RE: Supremacy (6/30/2007 5:25:25 AM)
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I have no problem with supremacy as a fetish. Gender, race, and cultural supremacy all seem to work as a fetish. They are not my fetish, so I really don't want to be involved.
As for intitutional equality, I'm not sure we are always moving in the right direction. There has been a lot of social change in the last century. When most people moved off the farms and into the cities, we seemed to do a good job at getting women out of the house and working. It has not always been a smooth and painless transition, but there was a lot of effort into getting this done. As with nearly all social change, this change came with the generation after it was needed.
I don't think this same thing has happened with fathers. I think that fathers do not have equal rights unless the mother's ability to care for the child is denounced by either a blood relative or a social worker. I've read about several custody cases that went to the state supreme court. The statistics referenced said that 95% of custody disputes are awared to the mother. This is not equal protection under the law.
I've known several couples who have divorced with kids. The fathers that won custody did so not by default as the mothers did, but by being patient and documenting the mother's emotional issues. In all cases this was an extremely long and costly process, and the kids suffered as a result. Based on what I saw in the process, I can say that there is definately institutional sexism in the process.
I also noticed that mothers are rewarded for not cooperating. If the two parents can not get along, then the mother gets custody by default or if there are allegations of abuse, then the mother gets custody by default. I don't see this changing in any way.
Institutional gender equality is still a long ways away.
Tristan
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