Equality of Men

Here’s my can of worms.  I opened it.  Feel free to play! 

Fortune Magazine has a recent article entitled Men: The New Misfits.  The premise of the article is that in the boardrooms of corporate America men are losing ground.  While this may be welcome news to many women who have felt they were not treated equally for year, I hope the answer for this is not an attempt to “punish” men for the inequality of the sexes women have experienced over the years.  

The thought process also opens up a discussion for me of where we are in society relative to the treatment of men.  The fact is that men have been lowered to stupidity in television sitcoms for the last few years.  Gone are the Bill Cosby characters and they are being replaced with bubbling idiots who only crave sex and beer and can’t do anything without their women.  Men are seen as the absent minded, uncaring, jerks that frankly we can be at times.  I know I sound offended, but I see men being portrayed that way far more than for the positive impacts we make on society.   My wife agrees.  She has often mentioned that radio commentators, where one is a man and one is a woman, usually have fun with the woman constantly putting down or making fun of the man.  I realize this is all in the name of “fun” and being the practical joker I am surely I can take a joke, but I believe there is some seriousness to this issue. 

Ideally we should have equality among the sexes.  Each sex should treat the other with the respect all people are due.  Men have a role to play in society as do women.  My suggestion is that we all value each other. Somehow it seems to me that if we followed the mission of Christ we would avoid all extremes.