The right to have rights

Being a woman has been accepted much longer than being a different race or a different sexuality. Women have been openly around for much longer than homosexuals and people of other races. It was not even until 1492 until we knew Native Americans even existed. Women got the right to vote before African Americans and in Europe women had the right to vote as well as many more rights, before people of color and American women. Therefore women have been at least tolerated in western society for much longer than other minorities in our culture.

This is the reason I believe that women in general and feminists appear to think that they have more of a right to rights than other minorities. Women have been a group for much longer and have been putting up with being the underdogs longer and more openly than any other group and appear to have finally become fed up. In regards to the openly being submissive you may say, well we had slaves for hundreds of years. In response to this, yes however in the western world who was the first to be dominated? The wives. Until very recent history women were considered property and had no rights regardless of the treatment of them by their husbands and fathers. Not to mention, in many niches of our culture homosexuality as well as not being a white Anglo-Saxon is not completely accepted by men or women. Therefore women who do not accept these minorities will automatically see themselves as better than people who are and think they have more of a right to rights.

What IS "Feminine"

The reason our culture is so unequal is because there is a double standard, not because we eat meat. We have inequality because we have different expectations of each sex. Whether or not eating meat is attached to these expectations I do not know but the whole system is much larger than one or two issues.  As I mentioned in my Q and A we have expectations and definitions for what is a man and what is a woman. So long as we have these expectations and associate "feminine" qualities with lesser beings then we will have inequality.

Objectification

 Many women are offended if a man does not complement her outfit, her body etc. Women objectify even each other. We compare ourselves to models and to one another. We objectify ourselves by wearing revealing clothing and outfits that are made to objectify our bodies. Men are not the only people to blame when it comes to the objectification of women.

This objectification I am talking about is not such as described above where women are seen as "pieces of meat". I am talking about in everyday life walking the street or in the workplace. Women wear clothing to show off what they and society deems their assets which in turn cause their more conservative female peers and male peers to look down on them. This goes with the thought of "Oh, she only got the job because of her looks." In this sense women are seen as objects but in the sense of wanting a pretty piece of art or a nice looking car. The everyday objectification of women is partly women's fault but is also societies fault. We raise our boys to be dominant and to want/compare the "best" things in life. It starts small with an appreciation for sports equipment, escalates to cars and clothing and then carries over to their teenage and adult years with their comparing of women. Many men can break this habit as they mature but if you go into most teenage boys rooms and some college age boys rooms you will see video games with half clad women as well as posters and pictures or even a magazine or two if you look long enough.

I am neither condoning nor condemning these practices because they are an issue which is not simple nor easy to fix. I can see two solutions. One is that women objectify men more openly so we are on equal fields of objectivity or we condemn objectifying either sex and get rid of all forms of objectivity in media and everyday life. The second solution would be much harder to implement however may be overall better for out societies body issues and overall self image issues. The second solution may also create a black market for objective material.   

I wanna...piece of meat

In such advertisements such as porn and other male oriented mediums from commercials and advertisements to whole TV shows or movies  women tend to be objectified as things instead of as people. While men may be or at least many men may appear to entertain these images and idolize this objectification in real life few men expect women to be submissive in this sense. Many say that chivalry is dead and when you look at famous people, such as rock stars and sports players who go through women like tissues, this appears to hold true. For men who cannot rely solely on talents and money however have found they cannot get any lasting relationship without putting in some effort.

As for objectifying women as a "piece of meat" to be used/eaten then thrown away, whichever women say they feel that way, must not be finding the right men. Men may walk by a woman and say a possibly inappropriate or offending comment but women do the same thing towards men except they say it in private. The only reason men are assumed to be the offensive, objective gender is because no one notices when a woman says something about a man or uses a man, but everyone notices when a man says something about a woman.