I cannot agree that men as a whole think women are lesser.
There is no where in the world, no country in Earth, where you can go and find that the culture and society does not treat women and girls as lesser. In "the west", the Americas, Africa, India, Asia, even the fucking Arctic Circle, women are variously sytematically treated as property, abused, raped, controlled, trafficked, enslaved, prevented from ownership of property, left to die as newborns for being female, aborted for being female, unschooled and uneducated, relegated to huts for being "unclean", shunned for having been raped, genitally mutilated, deprived positions of power or responsibility etc etc, the sickening list goes on. Do you get that? No where on Earth are women not systemically treated as less then men, and in many cases, as less than human.
They don't make the rules.
Men haven't made the rules? Yes, yes they did. Women have been until incredibly recently in historical terms (and often still are) disenfranchised from the power structures of society. That is where the rules are made.
Does this mean women aren't strong, resilient, and resourceful? No, the opposite. When you open your eyes and see the struggle we, as a global class, face, I admire women all the more.
Perhaps the comparison of race and sex is clumsy, but if anything it tells me the cause for women's rights needs it's own much stronger voice and language, so we don't feel the need to borrow examples in a plea to get heard and to try to get people to understand. Sadly, at this time it seems that voice is getting ever more silenced as you can see in the vile attacks made on women on social media who dare to speak out against the tsunami of misogynistic sentiment