1. Women have the right to genital integrity
I really have nothing to say about the first point except that it did state that it was only in regards to current US law.
2. Women have the right to vote without agreeing to die
Regardless of how any of it came to be, men still have to agree to be drafted before they can vote and women don't. Not exactly equal no matter how you look at it.
3. Women have the right to choose parenthood.
The simple fact is that women can say "I don't want it, take it away" while men are forced to pay child support regardless of what they want. I'm not against men supporting their child but the fact remains that the law says they have to if the woman wants them to while women can give up the child in multiple ways.
Admittedly I'm a little biased on this because when my parents got divorced my father's lawyer must have been really bad at his job. My mom got the house, was our (my sister and I) primary caregiver (getting into part four keep this in mind) and my father had to pay child support. My father made a lot less money than my mother and while she was our primary caregiver they split time with us 50/50. Why would my father have to pay child support in that scenario. It was so bad, he fell behind once and managed to gather enough up to pay it all at once. My mom took us to Disney world with it. My father is still bitter, understandably.
4. Women have the right to be assumed caregivers for children.
If a woman wants to be the primary caregiver for a child in the case of divorce she pretty much just has to say so. For the man to get primary he basically has to prove that they woman is unfit to be a good mother. Anyone who has gone through their own divorce or is a child of divorce can attest to that. Whatever the law might actually say, that is how it is.
Please note that I love both my parents but my father was way more instrumental in shaping my life and he got screwed in the divorce.
5. Women have the right to call unwanted, coerced sex rape
This has less to do with law and more to do with perception, that I'll admit. Their argument is that when it happens to a man it has to be classified as something other than rape which means that it's not treated the same or used in most rape statistics. Not equal treatment, but...
What the article is really getting at is that men can't really come forward and say that a woman raped him because...well...he's a man. Society expects that not only does he always want to have sex regardless of who it's with but that he could stop a woman from forcing him to do it if he didn't want to. The article is not wrong about that.
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What the whole article comes down to, for me, is that there are still laws in the US that are different based on gender and that's not equal. I'm not a fan of the authors obvious slant against feminists specifically, I think it would have been more effective if simply talking about how the laws aren't equal without calling out a specific group.
