Difference and Equality.

I was talking with one of my colleague the other day about work's atmosphere, and we found an interesting point.
At least, I found it so, and it would be interesting knowing the opinion of the net about it.

In a team is usually easier to deal with a man manager.
I think this is due to all the struggles women faced to reach the top of the work chain. For this reason, they tend to became more manly than the men themselves, to try to be their equal.

So, whilst the modern society claims to have overcome the prejudice against the women in charge, or in place of responsibility, all that they have done is to have eliminated the feminine from them, creating human beings that are covering their own nature at the point to forget it.

Until being brave enough, good enough, tough enough will be identified with having the man physical attributes, the woman as she is will never be really equal.

Real equality is not blindness to difference, is not pretending that the difference is not there, but it is giving the possibility to the difference to be itself.


Only if everyone can be different, we will be really equal.

"Mais les braves gens n'aiment pas que l'on suive une autre route qu'eux"

(But the good folks don't like it if you take a different road than they do.)

I love this song of Brassens, La mauvaise reputation. It expresses with poetical lyrics and beautiful music what I was trying to say about the major problem of democracy:

People do not accept and do not like who thinks differently (unless it has an apple... :) )

The more they (who are they? Let's say, persons in general) want to prove they are right, the more they blame who does not share their idea. 

And the saddest thing is that they are persuaded to be democratic, and to fight for everyone to have the right to expresses himself. 

"Non les brav's gens n'aiment pas queL'on suive une autre route qu'eux, Tout l'mond' viendra me voir pendu, Sauf les aveugles, bien entendu".

The ugly truth is that everyone is free to say what he thinks and to think what he wants, with the only condition that has to be the same thing everyone else does think and say.

Differences.

The culture of the majority is not impartial, it only claims to be impartial. In the reality, it imposes its own form of life to minorities, if they want to access to the political debate, at the price of their own identity. And when an idea starts to be shared by a majority, immediately takes this habit, and suddenly thinking differently means to be outsiders, not enough intelligent, or not enough literate.  It is happening what John Stuart Mill predicted in “On Liberty”. The liberal democratic political view, wanting to consider everyone the same regardless of the differences, it activates a blindness to the same public that, instead of recognizing the presence of difference, claims to do not pay attention to it. This behavior produces an abstract equality,that actually disregards the rights of individuals.

In other words, it is the human being that is not able to really have different opinion without blaming the other, or it is only a defect of the democracy?