It's a Man's World…?

We sometimes hear it said that “It’s a man’s world after all.” And there are still a good many men who believe it, and the practice of many centuries almost made it so. But fortunately we have come upon a day when it is also a woman’s world. There are few professions or activates now barred to women; and the legal restrictions which discriminate against them are constantly being worn away. But in spite of all the progress we have made in this so-called modern emancipation, there are still some traditional masculine attitudes which cause us to expect more of women in some ways than we do of men – or perhaps we should more accurately say, which cause us to expect less of men than we do of women. There is, for example, the masculine attitude of mind which causes some men to behave with less respect toward other people’s mothers and sisters than toward their own mothers and sisters. There is a type of person who assumes the role of gentleman and protector among women t home where he is know, but who feels way from home, or outside his own family and social circle, that a different code of conduct is in order. Of course, there is no justification in fact for such attitudes or actions. Fundamentally, there is only one standard of morality, at home or away from home — where we are known or where we are not known, and it applies to men as well as to women. Society has not always said so, but the laws and commandments pertaining to morality do all the other commandments, and no group of men can long remain better than the women they associate with, and so it is with women also. The Lord God has given one set of rules, one standard of morality, one code of conduct, and the respect and protection we expect for our mothers and sisters, we must also be prepared to give the mothers and sisters of others.