I differ with your begging...

It is, if course, human to take advantage of advantages, and while something may exist nearly universally, how it is responded to is a cultural response. Most cultures in the world are patriarchal, some just more militantly so than others. Honor killings are widespread in places, but we recoil at the barbarity and wrong-headedness of it (because it's so uncivilized). Victim-blaming and revenge porn are a couple of our "norms", but even those are being fought vigorously - and legally.

I'm suggesting that our culture is changing - in fits and starts, mind you, and with vast regional differences. A decade ago homosexuality was punished civilly and criminally in most of the United States. Now gay marriage is accepted almost everywhere. More and more people are rejecting patriarchal extremism in favor of equality. It takes time, but the direction is good. Rome wasn't built - or destroyed - in a day. I'm just personally excited to see it happening at all.

A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.

Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich