Women do not hold authority over men, therefore to suggest they require a level of respect equal to them is ludicrous.

Nobody would be as absurd to suggest that men need to be looked after to the degree that women do, so why would you respect women to the degree you do men?

These things are mutually exclusive.

You don't respect someone who needs looking after, because it entails a lack of competence and self-sufficiency. That's called caring for them, a form of adoration, not reverence.

I don't think you understand what respect means.

Men REQUIRE respect, precisely because THEY AREN'T cared for in the way women are.

You don't have men walking around demanding people care about them, so why do women walk around demanding respect?

It's insane. Why would we respect you? You're not respectable, you're loveable.

How can we respect something that is smaller than us, less reasonable than us, generally less interesting than us, less emotionally stable than us, and more fragile and needy than us?

How can we respect that? Is it powerful? Is it impressive? No.

You're not respectable.

Your problem is, you believe if you are not accorded the respect of a man, that you will be mistreated. It's an ego issue. On the contrary, although people respect women less than men, and take them less seriously, they treat them better because they care for them more.

You yourself wouldn't even respect a man that acts like a woman, you would find him pitiful, pathetic, disgusting, weak.

Yet you, possessing these very same traits, expect men to respect you.

The lack of self-awareness and complete disconnect here is profoundly laughable.

Men don't need to respect women to care for them, in much the way a woman doesn't need to respect a baby to care for it.

You care for it because you love it, you care for it precisely because it isn't competent, isn't strong, and is needy.

Be careful what you ask for.

I know women well enough to know that women deep down just want to feel feminine.

You will not feel feminine if everyone respects you. If everyone respects you, then you are wildly competent & probably quite a fearsome individual.

And such power does not make you feel feminine.

When women demand respect, what they're really demanding is preferential treatment.

If you treat them like a woman, they feel insulted you don't take them seriously enough.

Treat them like a man, and they hate they've lost some of their privileges.

The whole thing is a farce.

Women who demand respect simply want the privileges of male competence, whilst retaining the privileges of female vulnerability.

After all, a woman isn't willing to give up being cared about to get respect, is she?

And yet no respectable man is cared for like that.

This level of hypocrisy is so paradoxical, that it cannot play out coherently in reality. It is not a stable paradox. You cannot be wildly competent and fearsome and hence respectable, and yet vulnerable, innocent and in need of elevated compassion and care at the same time.

None of this means that credit is not given where credit is due. If a woman performs an act of bravery, performs exceptionally, or shows noble/aristocratic traits, then she will surely be praised for demonstrating such excellence.

However women, unlike men, are human-beings, not human-doings. They don't have to prove anything to have value - they are simply valued for existing. They are loved, and cared about unconditionally

Men have to earn every bit of respect they get.

Sure you want to play this game?

So no, in a wider general sense beyond specific impressive acts and sacrifices, it makes no sense to respect women, because to respect them would be to do them a disservice. It would be to hold them to the standards of men - standards 60 yrs of feminism's proven they cannot meet.

If women were respectable, society would have improved under feminism. Marriages would be healthier, children would be better behaved.

And yet on the contrary, we were more civilised when women were under the authority of men.

Women's inability to handle freedom costs us all.

And would I respect any human-being who is too weak of mind to handle freedom?

No. Because they a follower. Because they're too immature, irresponsible and incompetent to be independent. They are incapable of governing themselves, which is precisely why they must be ruled over.

If you cannot govern yourself, you must be governed, or your inability to behave and reach your potential will have negative 2nd and 3rd order consequences for the rest of society.

This is why any society that grants women too much freedom and reverence will fall into disarray.

You don't need respect. You just want to be treated well. What you want is love and compassion, and this is what any man who properly understands women will give you.

He will give you what you actually need, rather than what you claim you need.

Because you cannot lead.