In Defense of Men
Ballet Company by Karin Jurick All men are evil. This is a phrase I have heard countless times, by women both my own age and older. To preface, I myself am a young woman. I have a father and three brothers, and I do not think all men are evil. I do think that all people are sinful, and in that sense evil, but I do not think that the male half of our species is inherently worse than the female, and that is the belief I am discussing today. In fifth grade, I had a friend campaigning for equal rights for people of all genders. To my limited moral and political knowledge, this seemed a fair cause, so I joined her in constructing a website to promote her thoughts. My very conservative grandmother witnessed me in my website-building flowstate and I was promptly grounded, as apparently feminism was a bad thing. It took me a long time to understand what she was afraid of. The American feminist movement began as a reasonable cause: securing women's suffrage. To be clear, I like...
