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I'm sorry, but as long as feminists think that trying to ban words like bossy and meritocracy (honestly, google feminism+meritocracy) is going to achieve equal treatment for women, then I will forever take them as a joke. It's funny how now a lot of Social Justice Warriors actually look down on the use of MLK quotes, because apparently people really SHOULD be judged by the colour of their skin/content of genitals, as long as it is whites/men who are receiving the negative judgement.
I don't care if women in engineering did get a special lunch. If the costs to my well being was paying a negligible percentage of my student fees/tuition went towards giving women one freebie, then I wouldn't even think of it twice. But there is a low frequency background noise consisting of "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others" that permeates our society, and especially academia, that it is laughable to think that a lunch is all that those like me (evil cis white males) are paying.
I'm sorry but equality of opportunity is the only equality out there, and equality isn't progressive. Just because the majority of STEM students are male doesn't mean that you can attain equality by insisting for a beneficial treatment of the minority beyond that which the majority receives. It isn't a heap that is made all the more equal by being piled up with demonization of the majority. Apartheid wasn't a movement where the majority were oppressing a minority, but I'm sure that we both would agree that it was unjust. I think that people in the past had some very one sided views about race and gender, I get it. But if anyone honestly thinks that what is now advocated is a move towards equality, then they are out of their minds. I'm sure that when Stalin was sending his former comrades into the deep frozen hells of the siberian gulags he truly did believe that this was the right course of action to build a workers utopia and to ensure the well-being of his nation. "He who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
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