What is True Sexism?

Have you ever heard the phrase "misogynistic sexist pig?" It is a common term thrown around the feminist community. Funny thing is, I am a self-loving woman and I am telling you that misogyny and sexism are polar opposites. Misogyny is having or showing a hatred and distrust of women. Sexism is celebrating womanhood and manhood as completions of each other. Many people use the term "sexist" to describe someone, usually a man, who is in any way implying that women are not equal to men in certain or all areas of life. This is an incomplete and therefore, false, statement. What is true sexism?

Men and Women are equal. True sexism makes the valid statement that men and women are equal. These two genders satisfy equally important and equally necessary roles. Men cannot live without women and women cannot live without men. Our society as a whole needs both parts, both halves, and all of the interesting complications which are derived thereof.

Men and Women are better at certain things. You cannot exist in the real world among people without acknowledging that men and women are more talented and more adept at specific things. Women are highly social, highly vocal creatures. We are particularly efficient at networking, building and sustaining long-term relationships and nurturing, hospitality and nursing the sick. No one, and I mean no one, does it better than we do. Men, on the other hand, are better at logical, unemotional problem solving, territorial gain and maintenance, steadfast faithfulness and they sustain much greater emotional endurance than women can. Men are solid rocks, while women are moving water. You can call it Evolutionary Development or Creationism, but the fact remains, men have much greater upper body strength than women and can sustain that strength much longer.

Men and Women have separate roles. The differences between men and women are so drastic that our society would be unable to exist, much less function, without the strengths of either gender. The differences are unique and interesting, while the strengths derived from those differences are quite necessary. Men function more happily and more efficiently as providers, guardians, and the source of family strength through hard times. Women function more happily and more efficiently as networkers, home keepers, child raisers, family gatherers, teachers and nurses. It is our wombs that nurture the world and it is the man's strength which protects it.

Men and Women need each other. Before one more woman says, "But I can do his job just as well as he can!" I would like to ask, "Can he do your job as well as you can?" The truth is, whatever you may believe about the strength and toughness of women, we have jobs that will be left undone if we leave them. No man can handle a child with the gentility and quiet firmness with which we can. No man can organize their families, their social events, their sources of intelligence and their activities with the adept efficiency with which we can.

I do not care if you can negotiate or barter or lift or fight as well as any man. Who is doing your work when you are besting them at their game? Nobody can do it like you can.