Not that I'm a religious man but it is a curious fact that the earliest mention of woman and her arrogance, resulted in her and Adam being punished because she chose to eat the fruit off the tree when she was told not to.
As the story goes, Eve disobeyed, and in doing so was the cause of Adam's downfall by making him an accomplice.
If we are to take stock from this, we see nothing has changed.
Women are going back to their origins and all the mis-guided and mis-directed traits Eve spawned from the very beginning.
Disobedience, arrogance, selfishness and so much more.
Not a good look.

We can see - that the sexist belief
in the superiority of men pervades
many areas of our social life.

Some men still tend to incorporate prevailing
stereotypes about femininity and masculinity into their
self-concepts, and these understandings shape their personalities
and the way they relate to one another.

To some men, women are
widely viewed as being in some sense the sexual property of
men, and so are expected to be suitably submissive and
deferential. Any deviation is considered to be "arrogance."
And "not a good look."

A striking illustration of this submission is the way women learn
to hide, reveal, or distort their bodies in accordance with the
prevailing male notions of how women should appear.

In traditional
China, men admired tiny female feet - so girls' feet were
permanently deformed through footbinding, a painful practice that
left them barely able to walk.

In North America, where large, firm breasts
have been admired for most of this century, millions of women
have had their breasts surgically reshaped or enlarged.

Now that men's ideal for womanhood is shifting to a leaner more
athletic look, dieting has become a female obsession, with
many women considering themselves too fat. Every year, in fact
millions of young women starve themselves to the point of
anorexia.

Throughout history, most women - have accepted
their society's system of sexual
stratification, despite its consequences for their own relatively
low wealth, power, and prestige.

Why? the members of a
subordinate stratum tend to accept the ideology that justifies
their own low statuses, because they see the existing arrangements
as "natural" and proper, and do not usually question them.

As long as members of the subordinate stratum continue to
take the status quo for granted, it will persist.

But if they come to see their situation as socially created - and
unjust besides - they are likely to demand change.

That is what is slowly happening today. People are beginning to challenge the traditional gender roles.
The results are profound,
and will continue to reverberate through our society.

And down with high heels!!

Dear Is Mise,

I prefer high-heeled boots.

Fozy, again you project YOUR views.
This new age woman is not a good thing at all.
You say they are moving away from the 'traditional' and antiquated roles of yesteryear.
Fine but they have not set limits, parameters or boundaries.
Those who practice what you preach are in a mental void with no clear path and absolutely no terms of reference as to what to do when they get there, let alone know when they, 'get there'.
They are on a path of self destruction.
From your own comments, I fear you are a well read person and are now at a point where you are too high brow for the likes of us and the level of reason on this forum.
I think you are wasted here.
Your views are too extreme and personal.
I believe your views would be far better utilised in a more 'upmarket' forum.
I would appreciate your comments on the question I posed as to, why it is that you say men suffer emotionally and die prematurely that you would even consider promoting women into such a life threatening situation.
Bearing in mind women are Not as strong emotionally and physically as men.
Or to put it more clearly; Men and women are NOT THE SAME!

Foxy I'm of the view that a lot of those things you describe are more likely to be required by other women more so than most men.

Men make convenient scape goats for feminist ideology but it does not make it true of most.

R0bert