Since when does reality pose as a problem to leftist ideas? It appears to me that no matter how many times a leftist idea doesn't work, so long as it fits their agenda, it is fought for to the death. I almost feel sorry for that poor deluded creature in the video.

Men and Women are two different species.

The very notion of looking for equality and inequality of groups is in error.

Check out Jordon Peterson on Youtube. A Canadian clinical psychology professor in the middle of a foo-fa-rah over his teaching and public statements about this and connected subjects. As straight thinking a professor as I've ever listened to.

I have been thinking about this and I want to remark that Gender Equality is similar to Environmentalism: A really good idea that people have elaborated to the point of absurdity.

I am personally grateful to be born in a generation when society did not require a male caretaker for me. I am also, as a martial artist, very aware that while men are stronger than I am, that does not mean that I cannot beat the crap outta them for fun or in need.

Jan

The sole function of males and females and their accompanying difference is reproduction: the male supplies and injects sperm, and the female incubates and gives birth to the offspring. All else in the world, in economics, politics, agriculture, arts and sciences, is window dressing, the support system for the prime objective.

We aim for survival, safety, comfort and continuity through all the protocols and organization practiced by consensus or force. The dizzying variety of social establishments, from utter slavery to militant egalitarianism, are all experiments in natural selection.

In our time, we are in the midst of consciously evolving equal rights for all individuals, regardless of gender. Feminism in demanding equal rights, equal pay, equal authority, choice of roles, is saddling females with greater burdens: education, careers, and childbearing. Some even want equal participation in the military. Good luck, ladies.

For survival, pregnant females need protection, mostly supplied by males. Division of labor, specialization of functions are more efficient. Females in our enlightened times should have the right to choose for themselves how to conduct their lives and whether to consent to lending their bodies to reproduction. All their hormones push in that direction. Pregnancy and childbirth could interrupt a high-flying career, but such a female would have resources to hire nannies and not tie herself down to the daily grind of diapers and formulas.

The equality demanded by each individual is the right to decide how to run their lives, in cooperation with their fellow humans. Equal but different, different but equal—no one dictating to anyone else, all interacting only by mutual consent. And that includes whether to be impregnated, and by whom. Only women can exercise that right. We can only wonder how many more experiments of social formation humans will have to struggle through to reach a rational consensus of individual rights.

Feminist response, snarling, of course: "We don't need no stinkin' genes!!

I have enjoyed all of Annie Holmquists blogs that I have read. Thanks OUC

Do not confuse sex with gender. Keep those separate from orientation. Sex is physical. Gender is learned. That is why men all over the world pretty much look like men and women look like women, even though their social roles change. The Amazon river got its name from the female warriors who greeted the Europeans by shooting arrows at them, even though in most cultures, men do the warring. Sex is not gender.

Moreover, we know from other life on this planet that sex is mutable. Some fish and frogs change their sex. Male geese will bond and build a nest, but never laying eggs, they never stop decorating it.

If we can identify all 6500 genes that determine sex in humans, then we can control them and more perfectly change our sexes as we change our clothes. After all, the necktie originally was women's wear.

Finally, do not confuse "equality" with "equivalency." Gender equality refers to rights (natural rights and social rights), such as the social right to vote or the natural right to own property. Both of those were denied to women on the ground that they were not "equal" to men.