What happened to gender equality?
Let me just say that I would be, and for a good reason, the last person to claim that women should be slaves to men. Or to claim, as Greek philosophers did, that women have no faculty of reason—or at least one much inferior to men's.
I believe in gender equality. I believe that anything men can do, women can do better, and that anything women can do, men can do better—which means by mathematical consistency, men and women can do everything equally as well as the other gender. Some statistics, of course, show that more men are in prison than women, or that more women are now in colleges than men. I do not think this represents some kind of gender bias, either at the individual level or at societal level. There is some argument that this has to do with different evolutionary paths men and women have taken due to their different role in reproduction.
But, fundamentally, aside from our physical differences, I believe that men and women are equal, as should every reasonable person.
Then why is Obama administration launching a government program to somehow bring more attention to "women's rights" while ignoring, well, men's rights? Are women's rights not also men's rights? If spousal abuse is a problem for women, is it not for men as well? If a wife slashes the husband, does he not bleed?
Every social problem that can be framed as women's right (perhaps with the exception of abortion issues) can also be framed as men's right. If it is a fundamental right, then it should apply to all the U.S. citizens, not just the women half of them. If it is not a fundamental right, then the government has no business messing with private affairs.
The pendulum has come to full swing. Women do enjoy equal rights and privileges as men, except where physical differences prohibit them. If we are to pay any more attention to gender differences, perhaps we should spend more time with the troubled, neglected boys, rather than girls who enjoy plenty of attention already.