>the topic we're discussing is the threat to women's rights from males
And that is a perfect summary of the conversation because I would say I was discussing universal rights. I believe that central to the idea of rights is that they are applied universally. You were advocating for women to be a legally distinct and implicitly lesser group than any other class of people because you think they need explicit protections from men. I intended for my questions to show the flaws in defining rights that way by applying those concepts to other groups. I was pointing out we don't define gay rights in relation to straight rights or the rights of black people in relation to white people. Defining women's rights by their relationship to men is codifying a gender hierarchy. "Separate but equal" is not a desired end state of civil rights.
And that is a perfect summary of the conversation because I would say I was discussing universal rights. I believe that central to the idea of rights is that they are applied universally. You were advocating for women to be a legally distinct and implicitly lesser group than any other class of people because you think they need explicit protections from men. I intended for my questions to show the flaws in defining rights that way by applying those concepts to other groups. I was pointing out we don't define gay rights in relation to straight rights or the rights of black people in relation to white people. Defining women's rights by their relationship to men is codifying a gender hierarchy. "Separate but equal" is not a desired end state of civil rights.