I don't do this sort of thing often, making my opinion quite so widely known but after my observations and my own personal experiences, perhaps doing so now will help me express the mixture of disappointment and outrage I'm feeling.

As a society on a whole, we pat ourselves on the back for our progress. And I will admit there has been a great deal, but at the same time...what progress?

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Example 1:

If a man sleeps with a different woman every night, he's a playa, he's cool. No big deal, he's the envy of everybody. Even if he makes up his conquests, its automatically true. A man can be turned down or simply talk to a woman and automatically he's 'banging' her.

If a woman sleeps with a different man every night, she's a whore, a slut. Big deal, she's an outcast. Even if she's not done anything but had some man say he had sex with her. She can smile, be polite, speak with a man and in the eyes of those around her, be sleeping with him, even if they are strangers.

Example 2:

A woman can do the same exact work as a man, have the same exact training as a man, even put in the same hours as a man, but still get roughly half the pay he does. The main excuse given is that she'll be there less then he will, because she'll want to go home and have herself some babies. How does having ovaries make you less qualified for receiving the same pay for doing the same exact work a male counterpart has done for the day?

Example 3:

A Mother's Rights trumps a Father's.

Uh, what?

Just because you gave birth doesn't automatically make you Mom of the Year, much less a Mother. Just as giving your sperm doesn't make you a father. Mom, Dad. These are names we give to the people who will shape up into adults and if there's a marriage breaking up and the Mom's proven not to be competent but the Dad is, why not let him raise the kid? How does the fact he's a man make him less better at parenting then a woman?

On a similar note, many women's rights groups and the like say that their right for abortion on demand is part of a woman's right to exert control over her own body; however, that fetus many term a lump of flesh and cells has another contributor to its creation. Half the genetic material came from a man, some of whom are never told they might have a child on the way or have been yet have their wishes ignored. In other cases it could be the parents of the father who would like to adopt the child are ignored and a baby who is wanted by all but the one who's womb it's in.

Why? Why not just have that child and give it to the one that wants it? How come the rights of the father, the grandparents are automatically preempted by the woman who is carrying it?

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This is just some of the things that I find myself pondering, things that remain despite the fact we have supposedly come so far as a society as a whole. Perhaps we're a lot further then we were then the ages were it was a single vote among a group of men in the Vatican that kept women from being considered animals, but its an attitude you'll find still to this day.

How can we as a whole consider ourselves on the moral high-ground when we display an appalling lack of morals?

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Footnote: The first person to tell me the third example is implausible will be maimed; this is the personal experience I was talking about as this is what happened to my brother and parents when my brother's girlfriend/fiancée decided she wanted an abortion even though my brother and parents pleaded with her to reconsider and give the baby to them instead. My family was informed there was nothing they could do as they had no rights.