We will never have true equality until we recognize that all people are equally important. That we all need each other and that no one is more important than anybody else. And that includes corporations and employees, government and citizens, men and women, for instance.

All of our society is organized into some kind of hierarchy, upper classes, middle class and the lower classes, government, president, vice president, congress people, ordinary people, corporations, CEOs, board members, ordinary employees, customers... It's tempting to say if you are a corporation, there are always more customers, there are always more employees, there are always more congress people, but the reality is corporations need customers and customers aren't really disposable, it'd be nice if there was genuine competition between corporations but there's not...

The whole thing must come down because while we think of one group or individual as disposable, they aren't. Because sooner or later we get to the point of the image of Martin Niemoller's quote. If we can dispose of customers or citizens or women then sooner or later they will dispose of you.

Women have been treated as disposable for years. If one woman stops being pretty/young enough, whines or spends too much, she is often gotten rid of. Only her time and DNA are important, her DNA for child production, if she is pretty, your kids have a better chance of being prettier. Her time to manage the kids, keeping the house clean, cooking, shopping for groceries...

This is why the whole hierarchical system must come down. No one should be considered disposable.

"A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members." - Mahatma Ghandi

Until we realize no one is more important than anybody else, we'll always be considered disposable. And in some ways we are all disposable, life should go on if any of us dies... We all need each other, and because we all need each other, no one is more important than another.

This is not to say that one person isn't more important than someone else at particular points in time - a baby needs it's mother completely for quite awhile after birth and all the time before birth. We all might prefer the company of one person over another person at sometime. Someone may sing certain songs better than others, be better at solving certain kinds of problems, may be more artistic or athletic... we are all unique with a different skill set.

Having a hierarchy, the type that comes with government, corporations and class structures have to be destroyed if we are going to have true equality. Ostrom researched cooperative ways to perform the same functions as corporations and some of the functions of government.

Power plays and counter-moves, wriggling up the ladder and pissing on those below you while brown-nosing those above you is what it's all about in being part of surviving in our society.

This also works for groups of people. Society bully's groups of people by targeting one example, such as the mother who lost sight of her son and a gorilla was shot to protect the boy. Thereby telling mothers that they are less important than endangered species.

Young women are also another group that is targeted, if they dress in a way that is considered 'too slutty' and she gets raped - then she was, you know, asking for it... or if she was drinking, or out by herself... at night.

Women are also targeted for murder charges, just pretty much any show on Investigation discovery, they'll tell you how evil women are, all of them - all women belong in jail - just in case some innocent man happens to be targeted by one of them. At the moment they are also targeting JonBenet Ramsay's mom. Although occasionally it is a black man who killed someone. (I often wonder if this channel is owned and operated by the private prison industrial complex.)

Which is odd because statistics demonstrate if a man is going to murder he is 3x more likely to kill a man than he is likely to kill a woman. Women perform less than 10% of all murders. If a man is raped, he is more likely to be raped by a male (I don't know what is considered female rape of men, whether it is using his erection while he is asleep or anal penetration without consent, or perhaps it's both - I don't know.)

Men experience more violence at the hands of men.

Men are 3-5x also more likely to suicide than women.

You could argue men have a men problem. But what I think is men have an age problem. They aren't high on the pecking order, the hierarchy, they still feel vulnerable to other men higher in the pecking order. They feel afraid because they have been told to suck it up, they have been told that they should hide their feelings when clearly they feel very afraid and vulnerable. Violence is a very important device for pushing people lower down the social pecking order.

Once when men get older they come into their power.

So who don't we blame ever - rich old men - famous men - or rich white good looking men - or good looking men or athletes unless they aren't fully white. These people are extremely unlikely to go to prison, but usually do the worst crimes, like destroying the economy, destroying people's lives, starting wars to make money, poisoning water, polluting the environment...

We have some serious issues in our society.

Gender stereotypes of boys having to be brave and emotionless and the pecking order. If we could solve these problems we as a society would be so much better off.

The other problem is misplaced attention. Boys must struggle hard to get our attention. Women/girls have to do very little to get our attention. We are constantly monitoring and policing the behavior of women and neglecting boys completely even and especially when they behave badly. The bad behavior of boys is attention seeking.