matril

Yes, yes, yes! Being equal to men - great! Being THE SAME AS men - it doesn't work. It's not sustainable, we do not have identical bodies. One of the things I remember from college, over and over, is girls thinking that in order to be all free and equal they were almost obliged to behave like guys sexually, and at their sexual worst, no less. Meaning random hookups, jumping from guy to guy - and often they were so miserable and yet felt that they *shouldn't* be, because (a) they were being liberated! and (b) guys who behaved that way didn't seem to take it too hard, so obviously they shouldn't either. Unfortunately, you can't will away biology; we're the ones who are more vulnerable in that sort of situation, we're the ones who get pregnant and are physically affected by it no matter how the pregnancy concludes ... sorry to go on a rant, but it's been eight years now and some of those memories still hurt. Why, why, why does "equality" have to equal aping the worst aspects of masculinity?