It’s a men’s World

It is a statement: it’s a man’s world. At least it has been thus through time and times, even before Christ.

The Hebrew civilization is a good example of this. If we went six thousand years back we would find a society that would be organized around the figure of the patriarch. He -with upper case- was the foundation of the family house. This means that female members who lived under his authority, who lived under the ceiling of the patriarch’s tent, they also lived under his custody. He was responsible for their behaviour, their honesty and reputation; even if he would have been the punisher if a case of adultery had happened not only to his wife but also to his daughter, sister, mother, etc.

China is the other side of the coin. Chinese wisdom doctrine had always been under the skin of the older women in the family. All members, masculine gender included, had to respect the knowledge and expertise of the Matriarch. The role of the Chinese men was to defend its own honourless by following the advice and decisions of the Gran Mother (i.e. Disney’s film Mulan is a true-based story in which a Chinese woman breaks the rule that forbade a woman to become a soldier).

Nowadays, those two opposite poles are fortunately are becoming closer and closer. Although many women around the world are still under the yoke of men, this mustn’t be the rule that confirms the exception. Mr Darwin affirmed years ago that the species had to evolve in order to be adapted to a changing environment. The human species has to evolve too: both genders have to coexist and interact on the same planet thereby respecting each other.

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