It's going to take a while because for the last 500 years patriarchal societies have been devoted to controlling reproduction and that means controlling women. So we got into this masculine/feminine, dominant/passive paradigm, and it's going to take a while to get out.
Most women are one man away from welfare.
In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be.
It's never to late for a happy childhood.
If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?
I think if we could raise one generation of kids without violence and shaming, we don't know what might be possible.