
Originally Posted by
Barbi
Your childhood could not have been that great otherwise this wouldn't be such a sensitive issue for you.
I think the issue here is that I just happen to have a personality that fluctuates between warm-hearted and hot-hearted.
When I'm warm-hearted, I believe that no one of two children -- of different genders -- should be treated better or worse than the other if/when such differential-treatment is provided based solely on the children's genders.
When I'm hot-hearted, I support what I define as 'reverse discrimination' or 'anti-girl sexism'.
It could be related to my Aspergers. Also, knowing that 'pro-girl sexism' exists and is heinously-intense in impoverished, non-western, and/or nazi-like communities is what makes me hot-hearted when such sexism is reinforced to me. While I -- being in a well-to-do childhood environment -- was protected from such horrific discrimination, I began to read the newspaper at an early age and the existence of pro-girl sexism was a shock to my system. In middle-school and high-school, we studied history [of both USA and the rest of the world] and the disgusting reality of how boys were discriminated against -- by the men of society -- caused me to dissociate. In the old days, boy-children were -- and still are in most non-western cultures -- forced from day 1 to depend on no one other than themselves, while girl-children are given protection.
Perhaps, due to Aspergers, the stuff I learned during my childhood was not appropriate for my developing psyche and caused me to go crazy to this day. However, as I said before, I never experience any abuse myself, nor did I witness any other child endure abuse.