Babies and Gender Dinner Date

I liked listening to Terry Crews and reading the excerpt from Caitlin Moran novel How to be a Women and the different ideas he had from a man’s perspective and she had from being a women and a mother. Crews talked about his new book Manhood in the interview. In the beginning he said that Feminism is not saying women are better than men, it just means gender equality. Just like when people say black lives matter, that doesn’t mean all other races don’t. He then goes on to the fact that some men think that they are more valuable than women. I think that is very true. (Not to all men, but yes some) Crew talked about having a mindset about gender equality. The land of the law for a long time is that men are stronger, faster, smarter, just better then women, because it’s engraved in our brains that’s what it. Humans have this “mindset” is what Crews called it. We have had this mindset about gender equality since birth it’s we know what we see, men top women most of the time. I don’t really think people are at fault most of the time we do what we know without question this is what we know. We have to break this age old mindset about gender and see everyone equal no matter what body parts there are born with. Crews made the reference that you cannot kill a tree by chopping down the bad leaves or branches you have to get to the root of the problem to solve anything. We have to get to the center of our mindsets to have gender equality. I think if Crews and Moran sat down together there would have a lot of some of the same point of views. Crews believes that women should be equal to men, and believes in feminism. He also thinks that men “fear” feminism, that men should always top men. Moran brings this in when she talks about being a reporter of a women’s magazine and her editors wanted her to ask the women subject when there are having babies and also what they were wearing. She said whenever she interviewed men that they never asked her to ask them when they were going to decide to have babies or what kind of suit they were wearing. Moran also talks about women needed to have children. Right now in my life I do not want children for a very long time. I want to live my life before I have to raise another. I want to be able to experience things for myself and be able to learn things that I can pass on to my child. I have not experienced enough in my life yet to stop everything to raise a child. Moran made that point that when women and couples have children there life comes to a standstill, nothing else matters but that child, as it should be. So I am just trying to figure out to be me. Moran also makes the point that I completely agree with, women always get asked when they are going to have children, also said “you’re running out of time”. Even when I go to family events I always get asked, do you have a boyfriend? Do you want marriage/kids? When will women be viewed more than just the baby makers of this world? This is where I think that they might have clashed a little bit in views because Crews said that people have “gender purposes” not roles purposes. He said you need a “mother” and a “father”. I think that Moran who is more gender equal than Crews would disagree, because she is a strong female.