Ok I over stated, strongly dislikes is a better term than hates. Yes he is a strong advocate of equality in everything; that ability and merit are the only methods that you should judge someone say for a job, not sex, race, religion.
He works for a large US corporate here in the UK. He has seen over the last 10 years a number of his male colleagues discriminated against because they are men. Rubbish I here you all shout. Well they have a ?positive promotion? system for women in middle management. So during that time most promotions into 1st line and 2nd line management have been women. There have been some very able women promoted, but there have been a quite a few women who simply should not be there. I know a lot of the people at my husbands office both men and women, and there is an increasing dissatisfaction with women mangers who cannot manage. Just because we are women does not mean that if we want to do something we will be good at it.
There have also been a number of men dismissed after being accused of sexist behaviour. I know one of them personally and sexist he is not. However he upset a female technician in some way. She made an accusation that he made a sexist comment. It was her word against his; he was immediately suspended while an enquiry was undertaken. He was advised later off the record that he should leave and if he resigned he would get a good reference. No one asked him what had happened, there were no independent witnesses. He has a wife and 3 DD?s, his wife teaches but her salary was not enough. They had to sell the house all 3 DD were born in and move. We still see them regularly and all I can say is his wife would really like to meet the woman who accused her husband.
When my husband joined the company in the 80?s it was totally merit based, there were women at all levels include the main board in the US. The only place that women were few and far between was in the site engineers. They were on call 24 hours a day its heavy and often very dirty work and they simply could not get many women to do the job.
Now if you a man it?s still a good place to work or so my husband says. However while a woman can say ?all men are bastard? if she or a girlfriend has been dumped, if a man says anything that may be construed as sexist either by the recipient or if someone over hears and accusation is made, then that man will be ?let go?.
None of this happened over night. It?s the result of very small changes that looked reasonable and proper but all in one direction. The company is held up in the US as a feminist success story.
Now you tell me what?s the difference between equality and feminism?