I’ve always thought feminism is humanism.
I’m in favor of feminism and feminist advocacy for that reason.
However, I’m also in favor of appropriate treatment of people, based on sexual traits. Especially in schools. Boys and girls have different learning styles, on average. But that’s not really relevant. What’s important is that schools should be teaching to kids based on learning style, not based on the convenience of teachers.
Girls know how to sit quietly and apparently attentively at a much younger age, on average, than boys do. As a result, boys are falling behind in learning, because teachers no longer teach to kids based on how they learn.
We see the results already, in the US. Women make up a significant majority of students in higher education, and their majority is rising. Project this into the future, and you’ll find that women will, perforce, make up a majority of intellectual jobs in this country. Businesses will have to turn to women for management, because there won’t be enough men, and because women will be doing a far better job.
The pay gap will even and then swing around the other way. It’s too late to stop that from happening. However, if we pay attention now, we might start providing more appropriate learning conditions for boys, and we might achieve some kind of balance after women eliminate and reverse the pay gap.
With economic power will come other forms of egalitarianism. Wives, making more than husbands, will work more often, while husbands become stay-at-home parents. Women will stop putting up with the double duty (work and running a family), and family responsibilities will even out. Businesses will probably become even more family-friendly, thus pissing off single people even more. We’ll see more flextime and work from home arrangements. We’ll see more cooperative policies from our legislators.
Slowly, these changes will spread around the world. However, in my opinion, the pendulum has gathered so much momentum, that it will swing far past the balancing point. Within our lifetimes, we are going to see a masculinist movement that seeks to redress anti-male discrimination.