Well, where does this "superfreak feminist" begin to pick apart Tim McKenna's column? First of all I'm sure he feels a great sense of purpose and well being for telling it like it is — for just saying how everyone really feels. Equality, first of all has nothing to do with similarity.

Equality is valuing each human life as an important contribution to society in whatever capacity that life serves. I am overwhelmingly tired with people who imply that women are almost equal to men but because they can never be as physically strong as men, they fall short.

First of all, men are not the bar on excellence, something that women must measure up to (it sounds just as ridiculous when I say men are almost equal to women except for their lack of ability to give birth).

Second of all, female qualities such as the capacity to gestate and bring life into the world are the balance, the compliment to this male strength. So point one finished on to the notion of female sports being secondary. The women's soccer team is having equal struggles to the WNBA in their quest for equal pay. What makes this a better example of blatant sexism is that you are harder pressed to name a famous male soccer player while Mia Hamm and Julie Fowdy are becoming household names.

Third point, the argument that women are so exalted on television and movies that men are degraded and put down is lacking. Friends was one of the exemplary shows. The women aren't stereotypical?

I'm not even going to go into the fact that they are the queens of the cult of the emaciated, but what do these women do for a living? Rachel is in fashion, Phoebe is a masseuse, and Monica is a chef. What do the men do? Ross has a doctorate degree and is a paleontologist, Chandler is a business man, and Joey is an actor (he doesn't really help my point, admittedly).

So once again, men have the education and business sense and women can cook and shop.

McKenna's adamant anti politically correct stance is just too full of holes to stand.