Men and Women equal? No, never.

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Depends on what you think makes someone "better."

These are common things that most people think make a person better than another:
Intelligence, beauty, strength, speed, agility, cunning, coolness, swagger, confidence, humor, wealth, family, clothes, jewelry, hair ... right on down to the brand of the cell phone you carry. In order to demonstrate this, I will post the following four pictures and let you know that, without meeting or talking to these people, I automatically assume the person in the photo immediately below the previous is better (not equal) to the previous.

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Yeah you're right. We're not at all equal ... but that has nothing to do with what one carries between their legs.
I personally know many men who don't hold a candle to a few of the women I know. (And vice verse.)

You'd rank a war criminal ahead of two people who probably didn't kill anyone (as far as I'm aware)? So would you rank Goebels ahead of yourself since he was one of the leaders of the Third Reich? Your morality is a little fucked up.

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Suddenly, I know why Tiberius is always going on about misandry 0.o If that's true, then that's absolutely psychotic.

Not that I personally understand the idea of 'paid leave'. Sounds like it's meant as a social safety net for when you get injured... but I think that could be more easily granted through socialism (maybe try a mixed charity-socialism? Where if charity isn't there sufficiently for them, the society will pay the remainder as a tax?). If it's getting used like this... well: I would never hire a female with any reasonable chance of becoming/being pregnant.

I can understand paid leave up to a point. If you have a really good employee, and they get ill through no fault of their own, it makes sense to keep them on the payroll so they can resume their work (with no ill feelings) when they get better. Mandatory maternity leave pay is ridiculous though. Sure, it's nice when a company does do it, but they shouldn't be obliged to pay for something that is the result of an active choice by the employee (most of the time).

Yes I agree in principle, but you can understand the rational behind it. Women by their very nature will be worse off than Men without mandatory maternity leave, Men can have children without needing to be pregnant and taking time off, but women cannot. How else are we as a society going to have children if we penalize every career-driven woman who actually wants to have a child? Bottom line is children need to be born one way or the other, and I can see why the UK govt believes that women shouldn't be penalized for it (although they regularly are anyway).