We live in an advanced society. We are supposedly living in the most advanced era in history. Man has moved out from the confinements of the caves where he seldom came out because of eating food or drawing on the walls and moved into the confinements of the high rise buildings where he seldom comes out because of eating pizza or playing games and watching television. There are several things that have changes, and several things that have remained the same, as time has passed. The very element of “mankind” has remained the same so far; man is still considered superior to the “female” species, since mankind is all about, well, “man”, and not “womankind.”
We talk about equal opportunities in the world, and aim to bring more education to women in other countries, while women in our societies right here get criticized whenever they assume a “leadership” and lead something. We are now getting ready to either pound on the first “female” presidential candidate, or defend her in every possible and impossible way. Not only are many people urging people not to vote for her, they’re urging more than ever before to vote for some other democratic candidate, which is a pathetic idea to even consider. Not only does the idea of a woman president confuse the most of us, seeing successful women in the workplace makes us lose our sleep too.
I will use one example here from the workplace to show my point. Carleton S. Fiorina, also known as “Carly” Fiorina, created a big “splash” in the tech. business sector around the country when she was given the role of being the HP CEO. When she was “ousted” last May, because of not being able to fulfil the promised profits. Two of the main reasons cited for this decision were the invisible profits and the mass layoffs under her “rule.” She did indeed support the movement of jobs to other countries with low pay. While I don’t completely agree with her on that point, I have never heard any other CEO taking the same heat as her, and almost every other CEO, including those at other big competitors [of HP], have taken the same stand. What is interesting here is that the new CEO of HP, Mark Hurd, has announced massive layoffs, even more than Carly, in order to turn in profit. Where are these jobs going? You guessed it; overseas, which is one of the main issues Carly was considered controversial. Is anyone pointing the finger at Mark now? Nope, no one.
Moving back from the technical world to our own small world inside our houses, we still have the “female” manage everything in the house most of the time. Many men have taken the responsibility of taking over many tasks that were only assigned to females before, and that’s considered a good thing by many of us. Taking the same concept and applying it to everything else, we should also think the same way when females take over many positions that have solely been dominated by men throughout history. While HP wasn’t around 500 years ago, the concept of leadership and running anything has always been associated with a “he”; this “he” is included in sentences everywhere that describe any story, any poem, or any thought about any imaginative successful person. Why is there so much opposition to having females do everything, or anything, that males are “destined” to do? Why can’t people come out and say that they oppose a certain female “prospect” leader because she is a female, and not because she is of a certain party. At least that way these “opponents” will have the guts to show why they are discriminating and not use the red or blue flag as an excuse. Also, why can’t the area of “work” be comprised of both men and women in such a way that no one cares what the gender is when it comes to the actual job performance. While many people will argue that jobs such as prison guards are better suited for men, we can also say that communication jobs in the world are better suited for women, as majority of the women can communicate far better than majority of the men. Either way, it’s a stretch of a general assumption that can always have exceptions, and thus cannot be a universal fact applicable to everyone and in every situation. Let’s also step forward and have these laws be enforced on males as well as females. I will save that discussion for another day.
Imagine the next president being a female; I’m not referring to Hilary Clinton only. Let’s have a republican “female” candidate run for president also. And while we are at it, let’s start calling every male candidate as “male” candidate also, instead of just “candidates.” It’s just like the Oscars; Denzel Washington is labeled as the “First African American Male to win an Oscar”, while Russell Crowe gets “His first Oscar.” Let’s just cut through the unwanted dirt and start looking at things regardless of the “biological” nature of human beings. As long as someone is capable, they deserve to be given a chance if they earn it. Let’s stop criticizing females in different fields in every way we can, while criticizing males in only the things we don’t agree on. We are in the modern era, and the “female” species have started to show their frustration with the male dominated society. It’s time we had a society that’s dominated by leaders, not by a specific gender.
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The new movie itself gives a tribute to Christopher Reeve in the form of two lines that mention his and his wife’s name in the ending credits. No one, however, talks about Margot Kidder, who also went through trauma in her life, and is still alive, actively trying to find a treatment for bipolar disorder. Many people don’t even know who she is, let alone realize that she is the original love of the original Superman. How come all efforts were put into finding someone who resembled Reeve in the new movie, yet the person who plays Lois Lane does not remind us of either the face nor the character of the original Lois Lane? How about we have a dedicated mention for Kidder in the movie also? Why not have her be in the movie somehow, like in a 
