However, the western world is also a richer, much more equal place than in the past, as a higher percentage of women can live as they want while most people will live and let live, than say a century ago, when the misogyny was internalized and all-pervasive, even institutionalized, along with other mental viruses like racism and homophobia.

What was universally taken for granted then is the opposite of what is taken for granted now.
Nowadays these imbeciles are publicly called out for what they are: imbeciles. And a majority of people are comfortable to freely, publicly agree.

What boggles my mind is how many people who agree, still manage to mentally dismiss these archaic and deformed attitudes of power and privilege that come from one side and one side only of the political spectrum, and insist that bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRitE, turning their backs on Election Day to the party that has struggled to ensure equality and keeps on struggling, against the constant resistance from all those mouth-breathers from the mentally inferior republican side.