Happy International women's day

I am happy to see so many great women walking in support of their gender all across the world. I am glad that we, by having an arbitrary day where "women come first" we can help bring women as a gender forward in the world. The 8th of March is to thank for so many important things, the abolishment of suppression of women in the middle east, abolishment of arranged and forced marriages. Oh wait it does none of those things.

I'm Norwegian born and bred, I still live in Norway actually and here the 8th of March seems to be yet another day where feminine values are boasted as better than male values. While I am in complete support of "equal pay for equal work", that discrimination based on gender is wrong and so on, I feel like my gender has come under attack.
Not to the degree of "damn you women who have had your boot on the neck of men for centuries" but I feel like my values are marginalized by increasing pressure from certain groups. The women's right movement as it started, to bring women from being second class citizens to full citizens I understand, it was a great things and it needed to happen. However can we stop this fullscale attack on everything testosterone driven?

Of course if you look to countries like Spain, Greece, Italy and France where the male values are seen in a different light the women's rights movement and subsequent assault on male values is less severe but in cultures with less clear male role models and patterns the man is slowly being etched out.

Of course in "The Honeymooners" the line "Straight to the moon Alice" was a bit over the line, domestic abuse is not funny, unless the wife dressed up as a clown is beating the crap out the husband. On the other hand the lame, feminized, empty ballbag of subservience and groveling done by Doug Heffernan on the king of queens, Ray in Everybody loves Raymond, Alan on Two and a half men, and so on isn't fine either.
Nobody ever draws a line, that's the problem and nobody seems to be willing to say "Ok we've gotten what we came for, now pull out!" At the start it was rights to vote, which I and most of the men I know agree with, then it was no discrimination against women when it comes to jobs, then it was equal pay for equal work all of which are very reasonable.

Just like the Republican Party, the various interest groups for races, and groups Feminism got hijacked somewhere in the late 70s early 80s by extremists. While most women are reasonable you always have the "PETA" people of an organization that just takes the ball and runs with it without looking back. As I see it, if someone truly wants to be an equal they are willing to give up privileges in exchange for rights.

I have never seen a bar or nightclub have a "Men's night" but "Ladies night" where women drink for half off and get in for free is a pretty common occurrence around here. When looking at apartment listings I frequently see "Women only" and when I look at job listings I often see "Women are encouraged to apply" I have never seen the same for men.
I have never seen campaigns to get more men into what has been considered "female" professions. Male children would be better off with more male employees in kindergarten and in school, mostly because I think its unhealthy for a male child to grow up without male role models. Why aren't men quoted into jobs that are largely female professions?

Yes I wrote most of this to provoke to a degree, but to be honest the women's lib movement, the civil rights movement, the gay rights movement, they are all about the same thing; Choice.  Am I wrong? It's not about every woman having to get a college eduction and have a career, but having the choice to do so. If a woman chooses to be a wife and mother instead of hunting for a career its her choice.

It's the same basic right we all want right? To choose and enjoy our own path in life rather than one set out by society? To have the choice to decide what we enjoy and value not what everyone else does. However this choice is rapidly being driven to hell in a pink Prius.
So men do want to get married and have kids, some don't. Some women don't want kids and a husband, some do.

So lets just let everyone be who they want to be as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else ok?