Quote Originally Posted by lph View Post
A boy acting girlish is a figure of ridicule. Classic feminine behaviour is accepted in a girl, but is still less acceptable in total than classic masculine behaviour, which has higher status.
In response to an article about gay marriage (I think), a gay man wrote a comment that he had been encouraged by a woman to fight misogyny instead of just focusing on gay issues. She argued to him that, at its core, discrimination against (stereotypically acting) gay men was a form of/dervied from misogyny.

As to the rest of your post, I totally agree that if you are striving for 'equality' for women you must include men in the equation. The expectation of husband as major breadwinner needs to be relaxed. Men shouldn't be stigmatized in the workplace for staying home with a sick kid, picking the kids up from school, etc. And every family needs to be able to figure out the balance on their own.