Apples and oranges. No one in their right mind would try to argue that the military reflects society as a whole.
I'm talking about the real world, where significant numbers of men still believe that: 1) Buying dinner and a movie entitles them to sex; 2) Attractive women must smile at them, and it's okay to command a complete stranger to do so; 3) "If I can't have her, nobody can" is an understandable response to being broken up with; 4) It's preferable to have your daughter die of cervical cancer than to give her access to a vaccine which "might encourage her to be promiscuous"; 5) A pregnant woman has no right to do anything which might endanger the fetus, no matter how infinitesimal the risk -- and if she does, she should be prosecuted as if she had mugged someone.
And this in spite of close to 50 years of effort and education about the right of women to be considered people. Hell, HHS is buying into the woman-as-commodity thing right now, with that birth-control-is-abortion crack. Do not even THINK about trying to tell me that men are considered commodities in the same way that women are; it doesn't fly.
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I'm talking about the real world, where significant numbers of men still believe that:
1) Buying dinner and a movie entitles them to sex;
2) Attractive women must smile at them, and it's okay to command a complete stranger to do so;
3) "If I can't have her, nobody can" is an understandable response to being broken up with;
4) It's preferable to have your daughter die of cervical cancer than to give her access to a vaccine which "might encourage her to be promiscuous";
5) A pregnant woman has no right to do anything which might endanger the fetus, no matter how infinitesimal the risk -- and if she does, she should be prosecuted as if she had mugged someone.
And this in spite of close to 50 years of effort and education about the right of women to be considered people. Hell, HHS is buying into the woman-as-commodity thing right now, with that birth-control-is-abortion crack. Do not even THINK about trying to tell me that men are considered commodities in the same way that women are; it doesn't fly.