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Thanks
for your note to FEMINIST.COM.
I think the reason you are having
a hard time finding information
on "why women are better than
men" is that it is impossible
to make such generalizations.
For instance, there are certainly
some women who are better than
certain men just as there are
some men who are better than
certain women. The point of
feminism isn't to prove that
women are better than men--because
that's not possible. It's to
prove that women and men are
equally capable of achieving
similar things.
Also,
the point is to focus on each
individual--and every individual
has different strengths. When
many people try to say that
women just aren't capable of
achieving what men have achieved,
I always use as a rule that
if you have one exception to
the rule than it's no longer
true. For instance, that women
aren't as strong as men--what
about Bev Francis who could
pump more iron than Arnold Schwarzenagger.
Or that women can't be a bull
fighter--the woman in Spain
who was a prize winning bull
fighter. On and on--clearly
each individual needs to find
what they are good at and pursue
that and when they do it's likely
that whether male or female
they will succeed. What gets
in our way is presummptions
that because we are women we
are only capable of certain
things and ditto for men. So
that's the thinking that we
need to get past.
Good luck with your debate.
—Amy
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