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That's not what I'm saying at all. I'm speaking of femininity as ordained by Gnon, not any human attempts to define or constrain it - in that sense, indoctrinating women into behaving like men and aspiring to masculine achievements does not amount to "gender equality", but the systematic eradication of femininity.
There are several worrying, unquestioned assumptions in your argument: namely, that authority and competitiveness are exclusively male traits, that competition among men is inevitable in the presence of women, and that women who try to obtain and use power are "pretending to be men". Actually, by restricting the admissible examples of femininity to those that best suit your ideal society, you are introducing your preferred definition of femininity. Shifting the blame to "Gnon" doesn't succeed in hiding the fact that you're the one defin... (read more)