Can You Really Do Everything Better Than Me?

            I think everyone knows that song that has seemed to become a theme song for feminism. You know, the one that goes, “Anything you can do I can do better, I can do anything better than you. No you can’t, yes I can, no you can’t, yes I can.” This seems to be the age-old argument: who’s the better sex, men or women?

            In the song, the two list all the things that they could each do better than the other. Men and women have always seemed to argue this and I think that it’s all kind of silly. In my opinion, there are women that can do things that men can’t and there are men that can do things that women can’t. But why on earth are we still arguing about this? Is it maybe because feminists are too sensitive? I think that some of them are.

            Let me preface this next section by saying I am NOT trying to make an argument that men are better than women. I’m merely pointing out some personal observations.

            Feminists have been fighting for years now trying to show everyone that women deserve equal rights as men. I whole heartedly agree with this, but only if the women are truly more qualified. I know that women have gotten the short end of the stick in the past, but that doesn’t mean that we should be over accommodating for them now.

Picture this:  a company is looking to hire a new person and receive many applications for both men and women. They look them over and realize the John is the most suitable person for the job. But then they realize that their company already has a lot of men, so they look for the most qualified woman. She has nowhere near the experience or qualifications as John, but they decide to hire Jane just to make their company more diverse.

Is this actually empowering to women? The only reason that Jane was hired was because she was a woman. John was realistically more equipped and qualified for the job, but they still gave it to Jane. They gave her the job only out of pity for women. I feel like this is falsely giving women empowerment.

Feminists fight for equal rights, and maybe I’m wrong, but I feel like we’re pretty close. It would be naïve of me to state that they are completely equal. But it seems that women are automatically offended because women don’t get certain jobs or positions. I can name many female directors, writers, producers, CEO’s among other prestigious jobs and they deserve to be there. But I don’t think that women should expect to get special treatment only because they were treated poorly in the past.