General Discussion

rights of men. Consider that every man and every woman is raised within that system that, endemically, says men are worthy of more.

Just as I, a white woman, need to vigilantly and continuously work at unpeeling the onion layers of racism that were implanted in me by our racist culture, men have those layers with respect to women. You may not think you do, but you do. They are baked in. And some of the problem comes from the fact that many allied men's knee jerk reaction is denial and unwillingness to examine those attitudes.

And those endemic layers of sexism result in a culture that shows its hatred of women every day.

Imagine if you lived in a place where the law says that if you have one of a number of fairly commonplace ailments, you should be allowed to die horribly rather than be given treatment for that ailment. Could you ever begin to imagine a man going into an emergency room with a perforation in his abdomen and being told to go wait in the parking lot until he's much nearer to death?

Imagine if you lived in a world where, if you were being physically threatened by your spouse, up to and including the spouse KILLING your children, and you call the police for help, the highest law in the land has decreed that law enforcement is not bound to help you. (See Castle Rock v. Gonzales)

You don't even need to imagine living in a world where, given a choice between a proven, effective leader and a criminal, buffoonish grifter, people choose the grifter. TWICE.

I could go on and on. You live in a world that is geared toward you. I live in a world that is not geared toward me. This is our system. It is a system created by men that shows its hatred of women all day, every day.

If you feel the OP does not pertain to you, you should understand that.