The Perils of Equality

If you start with an assumption of equality between racial and gender-based groups, only moving away when absolutely necessary (the capacity to bear children, for instance, isn’t a fact a sane person ignores. It has a cascade of implications), you see the world qualitatively and quantitatively different from beginning with an assumption of inequality. I find that the implications of the egalitarian world view actually disturbs certain people, especially the highly politicized, but there are different sore points on different sides of the political spectrum.