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georges, I think maybe you are mixing together a few different issues here. The idea of quotas or "affirmative action" is not really a radical feminist idea or anything new. More of a mainstream social liberal idea. It's nice to say that we are all equal but if you have a social group that has been denied education and property rights for hundreds of years by the government and was just given them yesterday, there's a good argument for the government trying to correct that imbalance.
On the other hand when you talk about women's lives being treated as more valuable or women serving less time in jail for the same crime, who is actually proposing that and is anyone taking it seriously? That's why I was asking how many radical feminists are actually out there that hold the most extreme positions you keep posting about. If its a tiny minority, then yeah we can agree they are crazy, but hopefully we also agree there are bigger problems in the world.
Of course a more general critique of feminism would be coming from reactionaries and social conservatives generally who think that liberalism in general has been bad, and that we should go back to a more traditional patriarchal society. Personally I think these people are idiots because social change is always relative, so the era they remember as acceptable was probably viewed as radical by their parents. But you say you are an egalitarian so I'm guessing you don't agree with those people.