Well, I was raised in a home by a patriarchal system where dad was almost a king. I used to think women were less than men. I started to question myself and learn and listen...thi thing is that I consider myself a feminist. How wrong I was...
In addition to rejcting religion, my studies of political theories and philosophies social psychology, and intellectual history, I learn that all total system ideologies (those which purport to include and explain everything) -- religious, political, or economic -- are fatally flawed and destructive. That includes everything from communism to classical free enterprise economic theory to religion. One becomes a true believer in any of them at his own peril.