Here in the Philippines, there is a video that gone viral on social media, wherein a woman is abusing his partner(male) physically. The man is screaming sorry but the woman is still shouting words to him and continued slapping, punching and pulling his hair. (Take note that it happened in a jeepney where many people are also witnessing this). The people are just watching when the woman is hurting his partner but when the man had enough and punch the woman, the people in the jeepney quickly punch the guy.
I think gender equality will never happened if in the country this bounded to the culture.
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For example the average guy grows up fixing cars, building shit, etc and over time learns a lot of skills applicable to a lot of jobs.
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I haven't done any of those things and I know plenty of men that haven't either. But you did say average, even tho I think that is changing, I do agree.
No, and it has been never in reality even thousands of years. Both male and female are humans but they are very different psychologically, mentally, spiritually, emotionally, and physically. Even in high status countries those genders are not treated equally. In many places women are treated as slaves. Many people have such bad intentions that they think that women are only made to fulfill our sexual needs and thus they always play with their emotions and use them physically. It has been done in past and it is being done these days. Alas! It will be done in future.
I believe it will be a lot less common in the future. It is already decreasing. Nothing will ever be completely gone, but I believe that the vast majority will treat woman and man with the same respect and in some places that could already be the case.
Women are not treated equally in most of the countries (especially India and most muslim countries) and people make fun of feminism when it comes to their ego. While there are some countries where men too are not treated well if not equal. Some don't even try to understand what feminism actually means and they keep mocking it. Even today in India people feel that women are meant to do house work and not work in offices.
The law is the most important thing. If they are treated with equal legal rights, the rest will follow if it needs to be. As long as a woman is not forbidden to not abide by those rules, that should be fine in the long run, could be a bit hard in the short term, but nothing too serious. When you give women a right to vote, that is the biggest victory for feminism. Everything else follows, since they have the majority of votes. That is not enough for racism, because they are still a minority, but for women that is enough to deal with everything else peacefully.