I NEVER have been made to feel that way as a woman.....I know it's out there but I have also seen the women who end up demeaned have walked into it without the training or maybe even the desire to be equal.
[B]I was an only child who grew up in a neighborhood of mostly guys.....so the kids I played with were mostly guys & to be quite honest[/B

I was always their equal if not better in school with grades....& we always seemed to compete on equal footing & I was always treated as one of the guys. The girls I found that weren't treated with respect were usually ones who they couldn't relate to or couldn't relate to them.

I was one of the only ones in my family to get a degree

I think we earn our place of respect vs our place of being demeaned.

Sadly, I think for a long time women were raised to believe that all they were good for was being a sexual partner for a man & created no other values in their lives....right there to me was a very demeaning role that I refused to ever get trapped into....but that's just theory on my part & probably has a lot of holes in it.