Samantha

There is just one thing that really ticks me off and that is the guys that think that women are just here for house work and to take care of children. Men are not the superior gender; women can do everything a man can. I think I'm a good example of that fact because I race cars and almost everyone that I've talked to about this thinks that racing is just for the boys. Well its not, I go out there every Saturday and race against the guys who think that just because I'm a girl I can't hold my own on the track. "Oh that's cool that you race. I bet you want to be just like your daddy huh?" That is so not the case, I mean sure my dad races too but I'm not doing it because of him I race because it's what I like to do.

The race track is not the only place that is "run" by guys pretty much everywhere you look there is proof that our world is centered on what men think. For example the word history has the word HIS right there in the beginning. I'm not saying that we need to change the word to our-story or anything it's just evidence of how our world thinks and I do not agree with it. When guys act all high and mighty it makes some women feel useless or unappreciated but other women (like me) feel like we should step up and show/prove that we are just as good as the guys. Not all women are as strongly opinionated as I am but that should not stop us from trying to make a difference and change the way the world views women.


Why do guys think they are so much better than us? If there was any way we could switch roles and live a day in each other's shoes, do you think that would put it in to the guys' perspective that women are treated unfairly? I would really like to see what their reactions would be if women treated men half as bad as they treat us. Who knows if it could work but if it did then I bet there would be a lot changes, hopefully for the better.
I had my dad read this yesterday and asked what he thought about it, here is what he said "I think it's good but what I can't figure out is where all your hate comes from. You know that all guys don't act like that and I feel offended that you would write like that."

I do know that all guys don't act like that but there is a good amount that do. My dad is not one of them; he respects women (Not that he has much of a choice being that he has a wife and four daughters). The thing that I don't understand is how he or any other guy could be offended by what I've written? I don't think I implied that every man is a Neanderthal stuck in the "Me man. You woman." Mind set but interpret it how you want. All I'm trying to say is that men and women are and should be treated equal. What you have in your pants doesn't decide if you're better at anything or anyone.