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Culture War Roundup for the week of March 16, 2026

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Why even bother replying if you won't address the 2 direct questions asked for you to clarify your positions? We can all read, so your ignoring of the main substance of the message you're replying to isn't lost on anyone.

Again: what are some examples of men and women not enjoying legal equality in current-day America? These must exist, since according to you there are feminists who's sole goal is legal equality - hence these feminists can only exist if legal inequalities still persist, so what are they?

For one, women are not legally allowed to register with selective service. The feminist "equal rights" take on the situation is certainly something:

This lawsuit is vitally important to all women in America because a similar lawsuit is now pending in California, but it was filed by a man who claims that the Selective Service law discriminates against men. We take a slightly different view, and argue that the Selective Service law denies women equal treatment under the law. The difference is important. The California case is about discrimination against men. Our case is about equal rights for women.

The case in California (Valame v Biden) was filed by a man who asserts only one claim – that his rights under the Equal Rights Amendment have been violated because women are forbidden to register for Selective Service. He refused to register because he is angry that women don’t have to register.

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Women, not men, should be front and center in any Supreme Court case that will determine whether women are finally fully equal citizens under the United States Constitution. We have fought much too hard and for far too long to allow a men’s rights case to decide the legal status of women.

Interestingly, unlike in Valame v Biden, there is no mention of seeking true legal equality with men, as Equal Means Equal merely seeks the court determine that women be allowed to register unlike men who are required to and thus does not seek to have women suffer the same statutory penalties for not registering. Nor do they even mention that aspect of legal inequality for that matter.

Yes, this is exactly what I expected. The very idea that a man could sue for legal discrimination is such an existential threat for feminism that it needs to be dismissed and restated through a lens in which it’s about women gaining rights instead of men alleviating discrimination against them.

The mere suggestion that men as a gender could gain something by equalizing the law is registered as innately dangerous by feminists - which is only coherent since feminism today is about harming men first and foremost.

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