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The notion that men are the standard of humanity is a falsehood that sustains inequality. Equality is not about making women identical to men but about rejecting the idea that gender should determine access to rights, safety, dignity, or opportunities.
Who decided that men are the standard of humanity and women are the variation? Equality isn’t about making women “the same as men” but about dismantling the lie that men are the default and women are the exception.
The very claim that men and women are not equal rests on the false idea that men are the yardstick. But men are not the standard; humanity is.
And women make up half of it. What you’re really arguing for is a hierarchy because equality in the societal sense has never meant biological or personality uniformity.
It means my gender shouldn’t be a barrier to fair pay, safety from violence, political participation or basic respect.
It’s about erasing differences, but also about ensuring that those differences don’t dictate who gets access to safety, dignity, resources, or opportunities.
The issue with your take is that you’re confusing equality with sameness. Nobody serious is claiming men and women are identical in every respect.
The only fair, consistent standard for a society is that difference in sex or gender should never determine difference in dignity, rights or access. That’s equality. Anything less is discrimination.
