IMnaaHO[1] what pisses Ross off most is the unjustifiable extreme to which a large part of modern society has carried the goal of "equality of the sexes". Was there a time when it was "normal" to believe that men were "better" than women, or more "deserving" of $foo? Yes. Is it a Good Thing[tm] that it is now generally unacceptable to profess such blanket judgements? Again, yes.

But what too many people have forgotten is that just because neither gender is "better" than the other, that doesn't mean they're the same. In general:
  • Men are larger than women
  • Men are more agressive than women
  • Women have better communication skills than men
  • Women have more of a nurturing instinct than men
  • etc. etc. etc. ...
Does this mean that only women should raise children? Absolutely not. Does it mean that only men should be police officers? No.

But political correctness has gone too damn far when it's unacceptable to observe that the average man is more likely to pass the physical part of the entrance exam to be a firefighter than the average woman. To suggest that maybe some women would actually prefer to stay home and raise their children than to drop them in day care and go to work.

Would society be better off if it were widely preferred that someone stay home to raise the kids? Probably. Do the apparent general tendancies of our genders suggest that that would result in more women staying home? Probably. Does that make me a mysoginistic neanderthal who thinks all women should be breed sows? Not even close.

From what I've read of Ross' position, he's mostly saying that women and men are different; and that encouraging men to act more like women and women to act more like men is taking "equality" too far.[2]



[1] not-at-all

[2] Yes, that reads somewhat like a "separate but equal" argument. It's not.