I'm willing to acknowledge that women are fully the equals of men and entitled to every right and privilege that men are - provided that they're also subject to every duty and obligation that men are.

I'm also willing to acknowledge that women are entitled to special or preferential treatment simply because of their sex - entirely aside from considerations of pregnancy, which are unique to them, as well as the same consideration for old age, illness, or handicap that any person should get.

I'm just not willing to do both. I think they contradict one another.

If that makes me a boor, then I'm a boor. I've been one for a long time, I can deal with it.

Peter