Why Do Women Need Permission to Be Equal?

Permit the Captain a short, but important observation.

I have been told since the age of 5 that women were equal and could do anything men could do.  We should treat women equally.  We should treat them as we would a man.  And, matter of fact, forget it, there is no difference between men and women.  They are interchangeable.

But why after 40 years of hearing this constant clamor and bickering are women still asking for permission to be equal?

By "asking for permission" let me show you what I'm talking about.

The "Mentor Her" hashtag for example.

If women were truly equal they wouldn't require men to "mentor them" in being equal.  They ARE equal, therefore, shouldn't they just "should go and be equal?"  Also, the age of the women clamoring for this hashtag are of the Sheryl Sandberg type, who have the exact same 40 odd years on this planet as I have.  And the ENTIRE TIME it has been nothing but a 4 decade long celebration about the equality, if not, awesomeness of women.

To quote Judge Smalls from Caddy Shack when it comes to them being equal, "Wellllll?  WE'RE WAITING!!!"

Another example, women in STEM.

Shouldn't women be smart enough after these 40 years of "you can do anything" to know they should go and major in STEM?  THEY ARE EQUAL which means they're as smart and logical as men.  Don't tell me they "don't feel welcomed" or "they're socially expected to avoid math" or any of that other BS.  In 40 years women should have realized that majoring in "Women's Studies" is stupid as hell and majoring in "Electrical Engineering" is a much better option.  Why, after 4 decades of constant cheering and support, do I have to hear the same tiresome, weak, shitty excuses as to why women don't major in STEM?

You are equal.  You are interchangeable with men.  Men would AND DO choose to major in better subjects no matter what da feelz, so why aren't women?

Again, I ask in my Judge Smalls voice, "Welllll???  WE'RE WAITING!!!"

And finally, running to the government and corporate America for assistance and help.

No, you girls don't get to complain about sexism anymore. This country and the world has bent over backwards for you, giving you affirmative action, preferential treatment, and anything but a god damn ticker tape parade when it comes to promoting you in the working world.  You even have California making a blatantly sexist policy forcing companies to put women on the board of directors regardless of merit or worth.  If you actually WERE equal, you wouldn't even need these incredible handicaps to close the various performance gaps with men.  If you were equal, you'd simply close the gap.  What's sad is even with these handicaps you still aren't able to close the various gaps in terms of wealth, income, performance, etc. of men.  Which again, makes me ask that if women are equal, what is the freaking hold up?  Why are you asking permission from society and men to be equal?  The road could not be any more freshly paved.

The truth is women have the capacity to be equal.  They simply choose not to.  Most women instead choose the easier path.  A path that involves majoring in easy-borderline-worthless subjects, pursuing easy-borderline-worthless professions.  Working as elementary school teachers 9 months a year, social workers part time, accountants, but not CPA's, and activists instead of actuaries.  But instead of accepting their lower economic lot in life, they prefer instead to bitch and whine about the wage gap. They demand superior pay and superior preferential treatment for inferior work.  Matter of fact, if women redirected the energies they do towards complaining about the "wage gap" and invested it instead into a programming bootcamp, the wage gap would disappear overnight, heck, they'd probably triple the average man's income.

But they know exactly what they're doing.  They want higher pay for easier work.  It's nothing but simple human nature and laziness that guides them because if you can get the same pay as an engineer with the half-ass effort it takes to become a teacher, why not?  All I ask is that you girls drop the BS pretext with me and the rest of the world and stop acting like you're oppressed.  Stop acting like men are discriminating against you.  If you could for a moment, actually be equal to men, and stop your whining and complaining. 

So you want to be equal?  I want you to be equal too.  NOW GO AND BE EQUAL. Nothing and nobody is stopping you.  But for god's sake, stop insulting us by "asking for permission" to be so.
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