I'm not saying ability to teach has anything to do with gender. I don't think it does. (my favourite teacher was a middle aged woman in pre-school, my best maths teacher was a woman too) But personal values have an impact in everything we do and say. On how we approach subject. On how we deal with unruly children. etc. If the majority of teachers have the same beliefs and political affiliations it will impact their students. I know because I can see how their political affiliations impacted me. I realized how much it did when I left the education system (and travelled a bit, experienced all sorts of different things, crime, work in the military, different cultures, etc) and compared myself with people who hadn't. I remember the student riots in France and how appalling i thought they were. To me, those people the same age as me were mouthy little brats, and just a few years before that, I was one of them. I mean, I reached a point where I though, those guys are preventing people who wish to get an education from accessing their own schools, greatly damaging the buildings and furniture, which are paid for by the taxpayer for the betterment of their fellow citizens... I literally thought: education is both a human and constitutional right, why isn't the government sending in the army?
As steamboat points out men are just as likely to be harsh on their kind. That's how it used to be. And that's how it still is, even for women. A man's opinion of a woman's body is likely to be "dat ass", but women? "she's gotten fat, dresses like a tramp".... In my experience there are no limits!
the fact is, in the old so-called patriarchal system, which i prefer to call the gender-role system, although things were expected of us based on our gender (which isn't fair), people also had respect for this. men were respected for the sacrifices they made, and so were women. Men had some privileges, women had some other privileges (I mean, were we not told from the earliest age that it's never OK to hit a girl? military service, women have long controlled most of household spending, etc).
Now no-one's got a role, but no-one's got any respect either.
Regarding the video: Feminist claims in western democracies regarding the domincance of men on the political stage are moot. the reason for this is not only that women outnumber men, but women of voting age outnumber them even more. Besides, bringing the gender card to the table is nothing but a distraction. All politicians are corrupt bastards, no matter what party/gender/race/tie.
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
