What would the world be like without women?
Will there be any progeny? Women produce children but there has been a case where a man became pregnant and delivered a child. However, this man used to be a woman before he had surgery to change his gender but he retained the female reproductive organs. This was how he could get pregnant.
Will there be such a scenario where, in a world without any women, a man will be able to reproduce and only reproduce male off-spring?
Who knows?
In a world where women make lives more interesting,
where men engage in the pursuit of women since time immemorial and women (most of them) have the privilege of settling down with men of their choice, it is only right that women are to be respected and accorded the dignity that is due to them.
Yet in many places today, women are still considered as chattels, denied of rights, robbed of dignity and in some cases, brutalized and killed. These have been rationalized away as only barbarians and feudal chauvinists can.
Unfortunately, among some “civilized” societies, it has been deemed proper to cane women for illicit sex. In schools, corporal punishment is not meted out to female students, yet it has been executed on at least three women who were caught in “doing what comes naturally” under the circumstances they found themselves in.
Who has not been young and carried away by raging hormones? Who has not succumbed to emotions that cannot be controlled in moments of passion? Who has the right to sit in judgement on others? And, who gives that right?
Sex outside marriage is not condoned by any religion but human emotions are such that most of us, both the young and the old, will be carried away in the heat of the moment.
“To err is human, to forgive, divine” so the saying goes. Why not counseling, rather than corporal punishment that strips a woman of her dignity, puts her to public shame and ridicule? Is the punishment handed down because of sadistic pleasure, chauvinism, or to a certain extent, voyeurism?
We need to remember that “the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world”. Yes, some of the women may have been carried away by their partners in “crime” and had illicit sex, but so what? Isn’t this a phase that we all go through? It’s part of growing and learning so that later on when we mature, we bring to our relationships, a better understanding of what life is all about.
What about their partners in “crime”? They were not reprimanded or caned. Is there only punishment for the women? This speaks volumes about justice and the society that practices such double standards.
Women are to be loved, respected and protected,
not degraded, not humiliated and certainly not to be beaten. Remember, man is born of woman.
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