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Look through this thread. Look at the people bitching about the comic. But please keep telling me how much kinder and better women are.

...and yet federal domestic violence law in US was full of explicitly gendered language and until fairly recently (I haven't read over the last two revisions of it in detail), had things like having the standard anti-discrimination boilerplate and then following it with that funded programs were allowed to discriminate with respect to actual or perceived sex or gender if the program felt it was necessary, so long as an alternative was available (no requirement to even give lipservice to it being equivalent), but elsewhere that all funded programs must serve women (hint: they weren't thinking about non-binary people when they were thinking of who that would exclude).

Or Title IX implementation. Title IX literally says that federally funded educational programs cannot discriminate with respect to sex. The implementation of that very simple notion includes things like if a girl wants to play a school sport but there isn't a girls team she must be allowed to try out for the boys team and be allowed to play if she can perform at their level. If a boy wants to play a school sport but there isn't a boys team, he's SOL. Equality! https://www.nfhs.org/articles/title-ix-compliance-part-iv-frequently-asked-questions/

The first men's DV shelter in Canada was repeatedly denied funding specifically because it wasn't a women's shelter until the guy running it couldn't keep it open from his own finances and private donations. When he shut it down, he hung himself in the garage.