"cis women need to put on their big dick panties and try harder."

The only possible response to such a comment is that you would love to discuss this but the word "cis" is meaningless to you and so you're unable to engage with the op. 😏

Social media is equal opportunities for morons

They watch too many women taking down men in hand-to-hand combat or running side-by-side with them away from bad guys in films and television and if they've never had to attempt that, they have no sense how unlikely that all is.

What's funny is, to meet Hollywood standards, most of the women on film engaging in these fights are rail thin, not a biceps or a quadriceps to be seen.

I've come across young people so convinced of equality in all things between men and women that it hasn't dawned on them that sex differences confer any advantage on males, let alone that strength difference might have had some influence on women's inferior status over the centuries. If they've noticed it they've put it down to acculturation. (And we're still partly reaping the harvest from second wavers who refused to acknowledge there were weaknesses involved with periods or recovering from childbirth.) So it's possible that some young people really believe that women could run as fast as men, throw as far, jump as high etc etc, if only they tried harder.

I also thought equality was a done deal but it now feels like we stalled a few years ago. Role back on reproductive rights in the states and total disregard for women's safe spaces make me question if we are in fact in reverse and gathering speed.

I'd like to hope DuMondeB is right about the collective madness passing but some days I lose faith that it will.

twitter.com/AthenaNike4/status/1141315785043927040

Includes some eye-opening comparisons between boys' and girls' performances at various running distances.

Perhaps you could just point out that a lot of men would take their comment so at face value and not recognise the humour?

I also used to think I was equal to all and feminism was over until I got older and gained weight and suddenly realised what my worth was in society.

It’s a collective madness. It will pass.

I hope so, anyway!

To be fair, I thought I was equal to all and feminism was over until I was pregnant with my first child. Then I suddenly smashed up against the invisible walls of the patriarchy, like a sparrow flying into a closed patio door.