"Men are all pigs"

[GrandizerII]

Pool, can't you see that a lot of people don't agree with you and you're not going to agree with them?
Just let it go man. You're culture is different and unless you're born in a western country or us westerners were born in you're country, we can never really see eye to eye. Not completely. You seem like a nice guy and people are not going to think of you in that way when you're defending this thread.
Let it go. Then we can all just get on with it and forget about it. :-)

Actually, my background culture is rather similar to pool's. I come from a Middle Eastern background so this kind of thinking (that women should be submissive to men and just aim to get married and have kids while the man works) is something I often encounter in the extended family even here in Australia. So I'm familiar with this thinking and I can see it for what it is.

If you want to know, I was pool back in my teenage years and early 20s. I used to say similar things about women and not realize how misogynistic I was at the time. And I was never mean to women (to their face), more like I just didn't see them as fellow human beings on the same level as men, and I would join other guys in saying crap about women in general ("You can't trust women", "It's rare to see a woman these days that's like our mums", "You have to let women know you're the man in order for them to respect you", "She's a fat psycho bitch, can't stand her evil smile", etc.).

But you know what changed? I grew the fuck up and realized my gender does not give me inherent right to think of women as lower than me. This not only means I should stop thinking bad stuff about ... women ... but also stop thinking I need to protect or support or do stuff for them at all costs because of the thought they're not good leaders and can't get things done as well as men.

Yeah, pool lives in India, so he can blame his culture for his way of thinking about women if he wants (or he can reagrdless change his attitude and thinking about women and maybe help trigger some revolution there), but however you look at it, sexism is still sexism (doesn't matter where it comes from).