Men and women are equal beings

TIMES INT'L

Dear Editor,
The chair of the Women and Gender Equality Commission believes that men should be included in national discussions in order to bring an end to violence against women. I do agree, but this is easier said than done. Men are conditioned into a superior mode and to correct this fallacy is really a Herculean task.
Even as Guyana joined the rest of the world in observing International Women’s Day, it is time for action to end violence against women. However, my concern is that of the mindset – where did this male dominance and violence come from? I will not even touch religion, even though most traditions buttress male superiority.
According to basic Darwinian theory, women were less evolved than men, and because of their smaller brains, they were “eternally primitive,” childlike, less spiritual, more materialistic, and “a real danger to contemporary civilisation”.
The supposed intelligence gap that many leading Darwinists believe existed between human males and females was so large, that some leading Darwinists classified them as two distinct species – males as homo frontalis and females as homo parietalis. The differ

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