HOW TO EXPLAIN THE WORLD TO THE MARTIANS – WOMEN, 2017
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HOW TO EXPLAIN THE WORLD TO THE MARTIANS – Women
Chapter III: Women
As strange as it may sound, humans have an entirely different relation to each of their two sexes. Although both sexes are equally crucial to the survival of the human race, their sta- tus in society is not the same.
Women—sometimes called the weaker sex—have lesser rights and more obligations. It is as if human society is divided into two races: the male super race is there to govern society, and the female race is there to ensure its survival. The female race has won the right to vote only recently but is still not part of the governing. The concept would not be so strange, as we have observed it in other primitive societies, if the very race of the sub- jects would not be the same. In other primitive societies such behavior is observed when two different species inhabit the same planet.
Things get even more absurd when we try to comprehend the human concepts of what they call love and sex. Love sometimes serves the ruling part of society, men, to enslave women, which is quite different from our comprehension of love and thus difficult to un- derstand. Sex, the reproductive activity necessary for the survival of the human race, is considered as something “dirty” and “shameful” for women, unless it is connected with “love,” and a as big achievement for men, something they brag about as if it were a matter of their personal achievement and not a natural thing, connected or not with “love.”Therefore, women are represented in highly contradictory manners. Sometimes their physical body is represented as an object of adoration: on other occasions, particularly when connected with the concepts of “love” and “marriage,” it is represented in its enslaved version.