text: I think the point that women are trying to make is equality.   Your old fashion view has it that men need to protect women as though they are fragile and incapable of living in the world without men there to shield them from evil.   I realize that you think you are being pro women by offering to protect them but that's really part of the problem with this idea that they can't make it in the world without men.  And that is why your viewpoints are necessarily chauvinistic.   If you thought women were equal to men then you wouldn't spend your time trying to protect them.