I don't know if people (sexes) should be treated equal. We are different after all, even in our psychological make up.
Equal opportunity, same salaries for same jobs etc. however is a completely different matter which I think nobody in their right mind can argue against.
A generation of young screwed up men is growing up, having had their competitive urges suffocated during young ages by kindergarten pedagogues (sp?) who treats the kids euqally and demands that the boys suppress their nature (and pretty much expect them to behave like girls, i.e. play nicely, no fist fights etc.). Only now is the damaging effects on the psyche of male kids really showing. So tell society that they can go sit on a cactus, there is a difference "
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Ooh, one of my favorite points, and one I haven't heard many people besides myself bring up on the internets. If you can get ahold of a copy, I suggest reading Wild at Heart by John Elderidge.
While it is religious in nature, his analysis of male psychology is much better than his theology anyway, and some of his best points, to me anyway, were in the statement that education in America today is geared much more towards little girls than little boys. All one has to do to figure that out is look at the rates of ADD/ADHD in little boys versus little girls. The education system today, wants more or less castrated boys, who 'play nice' and 'sit down and be quiet' and while these are good ideals, and do need to be learned, they are much easier for little girls to do generally than little boys.
Little girls are better at avoiding trouble, even if they are breaking the rules, their troublemaking habits in classrooms are more stealthy and less likely to be detected by the teacher. Of course, there is also the argument that all of this is ingrained culturally, so who's really to say, but I haven't seen to many little boys asking if they was pretty, and I haven't seen many little girls who didn't have brothers as primary playmates wanting to rescue boys from castles.