Women are just as capable as men in every fashion.

That is unless you posit a thought they don’t like, and then they go off and have the vapors.

When he started talking about innate differences in aptitude between men and women, I just couldn’t breathe because this kind of bias makes me physically ill,” Dr. Hopkins said.

/snark

Oh, and I have five daughters, most of whom are successful, the unsuccessful have only themselves to blame, no man or group of men caused the problem.

Of all the people I know, none of them regard women as less. All of them resent being manipulated by false claims of women who cannot attain on their own, but manage to have a third party force their ascension. That goes for the women I know also.

I must hang out with a pretty class of people.

Gandhi’s actually a good example for my argument. he may not have used violence, but neither do modern feminists. he went even further than the modern feminist movement, through campaigns of mass civil disobedience that conspicuously broke the law. in the simplistic terms of my first note here, he stood up to the bullies, and the bullies eventually got off his back.

when minority A starts clamoring for nothing more than fair and equal treatment, and majority B promptly calls them rude and boorish and fascistic and oppressive and whatnot — sometimes that’s a sign the minority are hitting a nerve that needs to be hit some more.

Really, it boils down to: Bush lied.

That said, I’ll never, ever identify myself as a feminist. Naming a movement that is allegedly about gender equality after only one gender is like announcing a new campaign to end the Ethiopia/Eritrea conflict and calling it “Ethiopianism.” That’ll make those Eritreans draw up a peace treaty then and there…

shorter, if you tolerate intolerance, intolerance will not tolerate you. and no ill-treated minority have ever got their just dues by politely, quietly sitting and waiting for the majority in power to get around to treating them fairly.