Today I read a blog that discussed the Left’s overlooking truth in a search to further their agenda.  I find it true, however it didn’t delve into a practice that they often use to get around the “lie” word and deceive the masses who take the “news” at face value and swallow the information whole – not taking time to chew it and discern fiction from reality.  The Left has a tendency to (and dare I say a gift) manufacture truth by generalizing specifics and visa versa.  I recently phrased is as "making Macro-facts into Micro-truths and Micro-facts into Macro-truths" - half-truth and semi-fact exploitation.

I made this assertion as I was researching a popular feminist argument that “females make 3/4 what males do.”  This stat is a fact, but that does not tell the whole story.  It is applied as if it is job for job comparison. (i.e. a female manager at Best Buy makes $.75 for every $1.00 the same male manager makes.)  This is a misrepresentation.  The truth behind the study is that females often are less driven by salary when it comes to a career and more likely to take into account whole life factors.  A female is less likely to take a transfer, a night shift, or an extreme location.  A female is more likely to take a job as a librarian due to the overall life it provides - comfort, stability, and order - vs. a male that will take a job as a trash man making more money but providing less desirable conditions. 

I could not find if the study took into account women who leave the workplace to have children and then return. 

Most of the statistics are for an amount accumulated over a period that encompasses a workers lifetime.  This is run through the liberal “truth maker” which takes a generalized statistic and based on that creates a specific fact that goes beyond the original scope of the data.  The fact that men make approx 25% more over their career than women due to a myriad of factors becomes women make 75% of what men do due to sexist discrimination.  They never could believe that women make less due to their own choices - choices being the ultimate symbol of freedom and equality. 

Recently, the military celebrated Women’s Equality Day.  I must have missed the Men’s Equality Day.  Along with that non-existent holiday,  I never did see females marching so that they could have the same PT or uniform requirements (short hair, etc) as men.  Equal as I understand it means two or more things being the same.  Is it about equality or superiority, and what is the stick by which we measure such things? 

It seems that feminist totally discount the superior qualities that women have in their search for (as I begin to use air quotes) “equality” on a totally abstract playing field.  Women make (in most cases) much better nurturers.  They often have more patience, sympathy, empathy, and offer a less pragmatic/logical way of thinking that help to balance out relationships with men.  Nature provides differences for good reason.  Men are given greater strength and aggression as to serve as providers – even this has taken on a less “hunter/gatherer” sense in recent history.  If feminist seek to remove this responsibility from men and take on that role themselves, does that not leave a void in the general order of things. 

Why should we try and buck nature in order to find some abstract equality - sacrificing so much along the way.  What will become if an entire generation of men is ever stripped of their masculinity and forced to go against nature.  What will become of a generation of women who are pressured to leave their roles as mothers and shirk the admiration of their male counterparts in a quest to be treated wholly equal.  It is a give and take.  What are we as a society required to give up as a sacrifice on the altar of equality?  What will this “god of equality” give us in return?  Will we be able to return to our natural roles is things begin to fall apart at the most primal of levels?  Me, I don’t want my life partner to be my equal – I would hate to drag her down to my level and my children deserve better than my equal.  My children deserve a provider, protector, and a teacher – in other words a mother.  Providing a bond and a love that no man can quite equal.  Providing protection that no fist or club can rival.  Providing life lessons on a plane difficult for a father to reach.  I have this hope for my children, my grandchildren and beyond – given that we are not all driven to become equals.