Why the women's movement has failed

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18. Since this is posted in GD, I'll say this - most women, even liberal women, continue

to validate the concept of a female as sex object whose worth is diminished as she diverges from the patriarchal ideal of the woman as non-threatening decoration to and for men. It's difficult to reconcile 1) living in a world where women are chemical engineers and heads of state, and 2) most seem to aspire to be pretty - or at least, when you think about the women in our culture who are popularly admired, they are women like Kim Kardashian, not Angela Merkel.

As a gay man, I'm not sure I'll ever get it, for a lot of reasons. I just stay out of most of these discussions because my views aren't probably appreciated, which is fine. But for what it's worth...