I don't think anyone could possibly argue that women should not be equal to men. But today's feminist are by and large not interested in equality, they're interested in female superiority and shunning men. My wife and I had our daughter 2.5 years ago. She stayed home with her for a year. That's one less year of experience she has compared to the men in the workforce. She didn't bitch and complain about it, she took it for what it was -- she made a choice to stay home. I then stayed home with my daughter for another 6 months until she was 18 months old and could go to Montessori school. During those 6 months, I did everything from wake up with her, take her places, feed her, change her, read to her, play with her, bathe her, put her to bed, got up with her in the night. All the things society says mothers do. And during those 6 months, any time I took her somewhere all I heard was "wow, giving mommy the day off huh?". NOT ONCE did I get the "sympathy" that my wife got from the same people. In fact if anything, it was "poor mommy must be tired if daddy is taking the baby out." I don't hear feminists bitching about how fathers don't get the same recognition as mothers. I don't see any feminists picketing outside of divorce courts where the mothers are almost universally given more rights than men.
It's no longer about equality. For that reason I don't refer to the "social justice warrior" feminists as feminists at all. They're just as bad as their male counterparts that they're so upset about.
Women's rights advocates I can get behind. "Feminists" no.
And I realize this is a much deeper issue than I care to delve into here, but being fairly well-versed in Canadian Labour history and specializing in Human Resources, I understand the struggle. As it relates to the John Gibbons comment -- people who were offended by it are just looking for a hill to die on. They want a fight and they'll nitpick anything they can find that serves their narrative of a "sexist" culture. And any time they fail at something, they blame it on inequality. Gibbons is a simple idiot but there was nothing he said that should be causing this outrage. Just because you're offended by something, doesn't make your position right.