Pin 1 Shares

—

Many writers have argued that to ensure equality at work, the C-suite should be 50% male, 50% female, with due regard to agreed-upon rules to govern appropriate behaviour at work as regards sexism in the workplace.

I disagree. While laudable, this approach assumes that there is no difference in the way men and women organise their affairs. However, history has shown that men in power club together to form a patriarchy, from which women are excluded, and which makes male advantage occur at the expense of women. At the root of this is a puerile hatred of women caused by a fear that women are the gatekeepers of sex and that the only way for men to overcome this is to join forces and use brute force, terror, power and intimidation to force women to give them sex when they want. The rise of feminism, then, can be seen as a fight-back by women against this and that modern-day laws regulating sexism in the workplace are the result of the actions of feminists through the ages, especially those of the Second Wave.

However, this then brings us to the question that, if women held sway, would life be as terrible for men as it has been for women? Would men fear for their lives, terrified of rape, accused of being a “distraction” or worse? I would argue that no such thing would ever happen. Indeed, it is questionable whether even a 50-50 split in the C-suite would guarantee women’s rights. Many male executives would regard such an even split as simply “50% boys’ club (read: the patriarchy) and 50% the competition”. That’s not the right attitude to guarantee women’s liberation!

Don’t like ads? Become a supporter and enjoy The Good Men Project ad free

The liberation of women means the liberation of men. Let’s imagine for the moment that the boardroom was 100% female. How would men fare under such rule? I would say that they would fare exceedingly well. The reason for this is simple. WOMEN LOVE MEN and WOMEN LOVE SEX. Compare that to the patriarchy, where men hate women. Simply put, those who love should be in positions of power and those who hate should be crushed. Where love reigns, freedom is guaranteed for all.

With an all-female C-suite, women would decide what behaviour would be acceptable, under what circumstances men would be allowed power and to what limit such men would be allowed to rise.

First, regulations on sexism in the workplace would be revised and become more reflective of women’s opinions on what constitutes a breach of trust. These opinions are likely to involve the female executives creating a network of trust and communication between themselves, which would always come first in importance. Different types of breach would therefore be ordered into a hierarchy of how likely they were to damage the network of trust thus established.

Having achieved this, they would then turn their attention to creating guidelines on how men should behave and operate at work so that the female network of trust be not broken. On a practical level, this would involve training male staff on how to communicate to women in a way that does not threaten women or scare them. On-the-job training or placement courses could be offered to these men. The benefit for the men would be to actually properly learn the subtleties and nuances of female communication, what different male behaviour actually means for the majority of women and best practices to minimize confusion and mistakes. They would then return to work to find that their communicative ability was much enhanced and, perhaps for the first time in their lives, men would be able to relate to women around them in a real and meaningful way. This is likely to have a knock-on effect in their personal lives with mothers, sisters, girlfriends and wives, as well as at work. Having achieved this level of communicative competence, men would be encouraged to share their feelings, too. The main reason why men are scared to share emotion is that they don’t know how. Learning female styles of communication would offer men a framework of verbal communication where such emotions can be expressed healthily and in a way acceptable to women, where men wouldn’t have to feel bad or feel afraid that such expression would scare women off. In particular, some of these emotions expressed would sometimes be of a sexual nature towards the woman. However, couched in a female-friendly, communicative style, he would be delighted that even this would not dismay the woman but be welcomed by the women in power. As a result, his deep-seated anger and hatred of women would begin to dissipate.

Following on from that, this network of women in power could monitor male progress towards mastery of these skills. Decisions could then be taken to advance men displaying such mastery into higher positions of power. These men would, by this time, be men confident in their communicative abilities, comfortable with expressing their emotions in healthy and supportive ways, accustomed to being surrounded by women and strong in their sense of masculinity and personal sexual power.

It makes no sense for an all-female boardroom to promote prissy, unstable, emasculated men, who are not at all confident and who don’t know how to express their masculinity in healthy ways. Such men are not only a turn-off but also a clear and present danger to the sisterhood, hiding their hatred under a veneer of meekness. Only an authentic, emotionally mature, enlightened man confident in his masculinity can truly serve the sisterhood and become all that he has ever wanted to be in return.

In this way, then, I propose that all corporate boardrooms should confidently advance women into positions of power, even to a greater-than-50% margin; for no man ever lost face or became emasculated in any matriarchy but, indeed, became all he ever wished to be and yet even more, beyond his current imagination, if only he put his trust in the sisterhood and his faith in womankind

Oliver Chapman, DipCPC, CPT

Certified Life Coach

—

This post is published here with permission from the author. Don’t like ads? Become a supporter and enjoy The Good Men Project ad free

—

What’s your take on what you just read? Comment below or write a response and submit to us your own point of view or reaction here at the red box, below, which links to our submissions portal.

Got Writer’s Block?

Sign up for our Writing Prompts email to receive writing inspiration in your inbox twice per week.

If you believe in the work we are doing here at The Good Men Project, please join us as a Premium Member, today.

All Premium Members get to view The Good Men Project with NO ADS.

Need more info? A complete list of benefits is here.

—

Photo by Samuel Zeller on Unsplash