The problem is that women still get pregnant, women still lactate and men do not (people looking for BS excuses to attack me can spare me their rant about how that statement makes me transphobic, thanks -- there are far better ways to advocate for trans rights than randomly pissing on people). This is further compounded by a raft load of social norms that I see as ultimately rooted in that fundamental reality.

I'm not interested in fighting with you, but when you outright dismiss my assertion that women remain oppressed, it's really not fertile ground for having a good discussion on the topic. I'm not having a good day to begin with and your comment just reminds me of comments on HN where people try to dismiss the idea that my gender is a serious barrier to financial connections on HN and my rebuttal to that is that I appear to be the only woman to have ever been on the leaderboard and then that gets attacked as irrelevant and it's a really crazy making thing for me.

A lot of men on the leaderboard are quite well heeled. Some of that money clearly comes from their connections here on HN. These conversations make fire coming shooting out my ears and that's not a good place from which to try to engage in civil discourse in accordance with HN guidelines.