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You get down off you're high horse!
Equal rights are still very much an issue. However, these rights are not just women's rights but of human rights as a whole! In a lot of jobs, women and minorities are still paid only three quarters of what white men get. Women who get to the top of their fields are still looked down on for stereotypically stepping on others. Women also get stuck with the kids in divorce because they are considered the mothers and are it is considered that children should not be separated from their mothers, even if the mother is the one ignoring them and the father is the one caring for them.

As for me, I would rather be able to function in modern culture without comments being made about me, without having to tell friends "my eyes are up here" and without being told by society that to wear clothing I consider decent is not feminine. Thank you, I would rather not have compliments made at a meeting to finish a project. You're there to do the project, not to have to necessarily look better than all the guys who have rolled out of bed in their boxer pants and thrown on a T-shirt. Why should I not do the same thing? It is annoying to be catcalled when you're late to a presentation. It is even more annoying to be told to flash a stranger, to yell back that you'll do it if they do it, and to be told that such a comment is unfeminine. Or to see in all the movies how the girl always dresses so ultra-feminine in the end and kisses the guy for a happy ending.

Am I feminist? No. Absolutely not, or at least not in the modern sense of the word. Someone who believes in equal rights for all, and believes that they have not been achieved yet? Yes, by all means.

Now, what does this act entail exactly?

Even if this is passed it won't change anything. Men are still men and women are still women. There have always been slurs from both sides, with things like "You run like a girl," and there always will be. If this is passed it won't stop those men that do act in a derogatory manner to females anyway.

They way I see it. This is just a bunch of feminists who are just looking at the case from their point of view and are too stubborn to budge or be told otherwise. They're living in the past, no one's forcing you to cook and clean or to have babes and be a good wife. If you don't want to do it then don't, easy.

@ x-Genghis-x: Of course it won't have any immediate effects, but long term effects are inevitable. At least, having a law on their side would teach future generations to be a little less discriminatory. And has no one read or does no one understand the part about sexuality?

@ Nasuko: Isn't it horribly ironic and ridiculously amusing that you yourself are acting all high and mighty telling us to not stand up for what we believe in? And here I thought you would be fine with "A-freakin'-men, brother."

Well they COULD go to this one tribe in east Africa, where the attractive features of a woman is pretty much the thigh and face. They walk around without tops all the time but the guys don't look at their breasts. That's normal to them. What gets 'em hot is the thighs.

Some particular things of attractivity are relative to the culture itself. That is if you put thousands of years of evolutionary sexual psychology aside, something that is inherent in ALL humans.