Inequality

“You can’t go out at this time of the night” tells Baba to his daughter. No argument. The daughter walks back up to her room and passes her brother who is on his way out to go clubbing with his buddies and 12 girls. "Your brother thinks this is not a good idea and you shouldn’t be allowed to do it" tells Baba to his daughter. "Who are all these boys you talk to and call friends, you should be ashamed of yourself."
"Learn how to drive/park."
"Why are you up so late?"
"You want to live by yourself? You know there is no way we can allow that, right?"
"You want to travel with your friends? Who is going? Where are you guys going? Where are you staying? With who? For how long? Any boys in the crowd? WHAT? How many boys are going with you? WHAT? That’s too many boys, you can’t go. Your brother agrees with me."
"You get the small room, your brother has too many things and he needs to focus."

If that paragraph sounds familiar and unfair, I can guess your gender: a female. Apparently that is a crime. If you think all those lines are normal, you are most probably Baba or the son of that Baba. Or you’re simply just another male chauvinist. Don’t know its meaning? Google it.

I wish to live to see the day that men and women are treated equally. But I believe that my wish would never come true and I would never see that day.

We claim that humans are advanced and civilized and apart from the animal world. But if you look closely, you will find that the very society these advanced humans have built is no different than the animal world. Surprisingly, we become even more primal than them in many cases. At least animals have respect for females and never claim superiority over them. They rather, the male ones of course, fight to win a females attention, respect, and companionship. And the moment they disrespect that one female, another male will take the winning spot. But look at us humans, oh so advanced. What separates these two worlds, the world of humans and animals, is what is happening in the very top part of our body: our brain. Its is this tiny little thing that separates these two huge worlds. It is our power to think, analyze, and use logic. So, humans, let’s think, analyze, and use logic. What has always been known about the animal world is that in their world, physical power is the deciding factor! REALLY? Physical power is the deciding factor in the animal world???? Animal world??? Sounds familiar?? Yes! Indeed. We live in an advanced world where physical power is the deciding factor as well. Such a paradox! I mean I am sure that the size and power of our brain is not the reason that the first paragraph of this writing would make sense to some people. I am positive that many of those who read this and agree with the first paragraph, have less advanced degrees, are socially inept, have read less books, cant play an instrument, and are not as well spoken as many of the female members of their families, but yet they have the balls, yes the balls, to call themselves superior to them. Or at least they think that way. Otherwise why would a male give himself the right to decide for a female and get offended when a female does the same to him? Let’s switch the words Baba with Maman and reverse the son and daughter order. I bet many of you would laugh. If you do so, I can guess what your gender is: a Male. But if you sigh, I can tell that you are simply imagining that for a second. Why is this?

We don’t even think about this absolute inequality and injustice if we are from a gender that sports a Doodool. So that is the deciding factor these days? I thought we are human beings. How in the world one can explain the different treatment Baba gives his sons. Baba sees his sons as wise and hardworking and his daughter as a partier and social butterfly, who does not study as hard, work as much, and spend enough time with family. But if you look closely, all those sons, have more friends on Orkut/Facebook/Myspace/friendster, have had more girlfriends, have or had relatively lower GPAs in school, spend less time with the family, help around the house less, are more arrogant, have higher expenses, but guess what, can lift heavier weights. Oh, and I forgot, they have a Doodool and can grow a beard. Disgusting you might say. Disgusting indeed.

I consider myself a logical person. I approach almost everything with logic and solve all my problems with logic, even if they are very emotional problems. So, me = logic. But logic has failed in explaining this inequality to me. I mean one logic does answer that. But the answer this logic is giving me is in absolute conflict with the very basic element of our advanced society. Remember that element? The distinguishing factor? Yes, correct, brain in human world and physical power in the animal world. You guessed it right, after deeply thinking about this for months, and approaching it with unbiased logic, I have reached a conclusion. I have concluded that we live in a world where the deciding factor(s) for measuring the superiority of a human being in our so called advanced society depends on nothing but physical power, doodool, and beard. Just like animals. Oh shit, animals don’t have beard. We are simply a whole new specie in this unequal world. Now that is one sad conclusion! I am depressed now.