So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?

In almost any situation, if you have been the powerful one, which would tend to be men more than women but not always, it's very important to listen as much as you talk. If you have been the less powerful one, it's very important to talk as much as you listen.

Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.

Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.

They're all qualities wrongly called feminine: attention to detail, patience, empathy. I don't have children, but I was raised as a female to have those qualities because they're perceived as feminine. Until men are raised with those qualities, too, they won't have the full circle of human qualities.

Feminism starts out being very simple, and it ends up being a world view that questions hierarchy altogether.

If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society.