Marching to the Promised Land

 

Subject: Marching to the Promised Land.

Has the gender centre of gravity moved today as female power takes to the street across the world. The sight of so many women on the march persuaded by the contact list in Facebook, galvanised by an apparent Neanderthal in the White House they came out in their thousands in so many cities across the western world to protest.
Making up 50% of the worlds population and having such influence at the level of home and family as well as in commerce they are a force to be reckoned with. It is said they are the softer sex, more caring more assimilated to the long term needs of our planet which go hand in hand with the needs of the children they raise and care for. Their perspective is subtle more nuanced than the male who's character is more adversarial more prone to conflict.
And yet they represent that frightening phenomena in this age of the internet and unrivalled communication, a pack. The pack was always feared, be it wolves or predators in the sea the pack is feared because its cause is death and the destruction of what ever is in its sights. A pack whilst having a leader also has the motivating force of numbers, numbers which seem to give it legitimacy.
The hysteria of the pack is only manifest after it has trailed and weakened its pray it feeds on the support each member brings but is manifest as a collective will or spirit.
The women in the march were far from wild instead they were calm and reserved holding placards and walking in an orderly way. The implication was that "we are reasonable", "our claims are reasonable" and therefore "we have to be heard".
There were no faces hidden by Balaclavas, no Molotov Cocktails no overturning of cars or looting of shops. None of the nastiness that men get up to when in a crowd to protest a grievance.
And what were their grievances. Were they to do with pay inequality, a little in so far as it effects them. Were they upset about the cancelling of trade deals or the belligerence displayed towards China even the imbalance of the trade deals by American conglomerates into the 3rd world with genetically modified crops, no their concerns were much nearer to home.

The right to have an abortion, the right to share the boardroom with their male colleague

The right to be recognised as having "special rights".

Feminism has always skewed the prism through which mankind has looked at life by inferring that women can bring a special way of looking at things and therefore the outlook will be better all round. But in my own experience. Mrs Thatcher was as one eyed as any man, totally obsessed with her mission to change society into winners and losers and as far from the 'caring female' as you could get. Teresa May and Nicola Sturgeon seem to be in the same mould, hard headed politicians who's brand of idealism is to be more feared than applauded.

Should we conclude that power has the same effect on both the male and the female, it distorts the good in either gender and if that is the case, we have to judge the feminist much as we judge the male, both are unhinged with a suffusion of egotism and self - aggrandisement.