I am raising my boys to treat girls equally and to treat them as friends and it has worked perfectly so far. What I didn’t know, until we moved to a new city, was my youngest (who was in grade two at the time) was known as the peacekeeper of his class between the boys and girls. A couple of the moms who were friends of my wife said that after we moved the boys started to bully the girls. Why can’t more parents teach their boys respect?

It's all about education and there needs to be a consistent and thorough programme to bring boys up to realise all these above things. We'll never get anywhere unless, straight from the start, we nurture youngsters to understand equality. It's harder to teach stubborn sexist adults, like Bryan Wilson below (By the way, if anyone knows him, report him to the police - he's a potential rapist), but some people will understand this and progress will be made. Eventually more people will realise that treating women unequally for any reason is unacceptable.

The comments in this post show why people won't "discuss" this topic - a lot of people aren't able to discuss and jump to insults right away if an argument doesn't fit their narrative

When I was a kid, every time I admired something fancy or expensive, one of my adult relatives would say, "You have expensive taste. You'd better find a rich man to marry you." People are so clueless about how they indoctrinate very young children with sexist ideas.

Very bitter pills to swallow but the truth is the truth and I will always support women (and matured men) to break these outdated shackles. Societies will never truly develop and grow until the things in these posts are appropriately acknowledged and addressed as they should be.