Are We Engaged in Gender Warfare?

As a personal opinion I really don’t believe that we are engaged in a gender war. If anything I would describe the current situation as more of a gender struggle. Growing up in a small Midwestern town I never really heard much about the struggle for equality in a modern sense. I was always taught that a woman can do anything that a man can do and the older I got the more apparent that became. Even walking around campus today I see about an equal ratio of boys to girls with a wide array of majors. Yes some majors are more male dominated and some are more female dominated but the opportunity still exists for members of both genders to study in those fields.

I guess that I personally have never experienced the so called gender war. I have personally witnessed attempts for men to make sacrifices in sports to compensate for equality for women. Most notable in the sport of high school wrestling girls are allowed to compete in a sport dominated by men. Another example of this is allowing girls to compete on the football team. However I have never personally seen an attempt for a man to compete on a team of women. To me it appears that women want to be like men and have the opportunity to have every advantage that men have, but the same does not necessarily hold true for men wanting to have all the opportunities a woman has.

Maybe I just fit into the typical male stereotype of being naïve, bullheaded, and completely oblivious to my surroundings but to me there is no such thing as a gender war. I believe that there is an identity crisis of sorts as women want to be more like men, but that should be classified more as a struggle if anything. To me the word “war” describes a deep hatred with a lot of violence and even possible death as a direct result of the situation. We don’t have that in today’s society, men and women are obviously still able to coexist without a need for hatred and violence.


Does our opinion on gender warfare depend on geography?

Is this a one sided battle or do both sides have something to gain from a “gender war”?