Shouldn't change start coming around sometime?

After the New Delhi rape case, you can ask me whether or not I'm outraged. My answer would sadly be: Which one are you referring to?

           
               Why is it that women, after coming so far in so many places, such as jobs and education, are still being suppressed by the most basic and fundamental structure: physical strength? People can survive without being a physical Hulk, and men are just generally more gifted in that area. But you cannot impose on men as much as you can on women. Women are the ones who bear children, and that fact alone has driven discrimination in the world. In the western world, women were considered to be of weak minds, that could not tolerate much more than knitting, cleaning, and raising children.

              Of course, the women eventually began proving them wrong in the late 1700's, with A Vindication of  the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft in 1792. But when you think about it, in the rich and extensive recorded history of humans beginning in the 4th millennium BCE, 200 and some years are nothing for people to start noticing women's rights. I'm not sure why I feel so, but I think I can tell why. 

                Women were made to breed. Their function is to bear children in the grand scheme of things. Unfair? I suppose so. Adolescence is the time when these things start enacting, with a girl starting her periods and whatnot. Then, there is the brain shift. Trust me, girls start out perfectly capable and normal as children, and return to becoming so after puberty is done with. Then there is the gap: puberty. 

                Puberty is a very important time in the lives of human development. But when you have been created to be distracted by things such as love, you miss out. Anyone who has ever had a crush or has been in love can relate to me when I tell them that obsession is a big part of it. Girls can get pretty obsessed once they have fixated on someone. Been there. This part is purely opinion, though. When girls start getting obsessed, they really can't think of much else. And when important things are happening in school at this phase, one can't retain much information when their head is in the clouds.

               

               When the only thoughts running in your mind are practically "His dreamy eyes are so... dreamy", then you are in trouble. The only way you can get through such a phase is to focus. This is something all girls need to learn. Society has ingrained the thought that women are not as capable as men, and it disgusts me. When women realize that they too are capable of great things, they will learn that their lives don't revolve around men and other trivial pursuits. They need to change their mindset.

               Now, another problem. Changing mindsets is fine and all, but think about all those girls who do try to go out and change the world. Or those who simply want to live their lives normally. It is not a pleasant thought to walk around the neighborhood and fear rape anytime that a remotely suspicious-looking man is near you. Rape is a terrible, terrible thing, and happens far too often. How can women exercise their rights to anything if they are too afraid? Men who cannot control their libido, and go as far as to mentally scar women, and sometimes little children for the rest of their lives are despicable and don't deserve any mercy. 

            How can the role of women change in the world if the men never allow it? There is only so far that such progress can take us, before the opposite gender open their eyes and look at us of being of the same species, and see us as as equals. The world cannot change all in one go, but we have to ask ourselves if we are capable of going one step at a time. And don't you think, with recorded history starting at 4 millennium BCE, the change should start coming around sometime soon?