Societies that empower women are less violent in every way.

As women are empowered, violence can come down, for a number of reasons. By all measures, men are the more violent gender.

Knights do protect ladies, but only to keep them from being abducted by other knights.

The scriptures present a God who delights in genocide, rape, slavery, and the execution of nonconformists, and for millennia those writings were used to rationalize the massacre of infidels, the ownership of women, the beating of children, dominion over animals, and the persecution of heretics and homosexuals. Humanitarian reforms such as the elimination of cruel punishment, the dissemination of empathy-inducing novels, and the abolition of slavery were met with fierce opposition in their time by ecclesiastical authorities and their apologists. The elevation of parochial values to the realm of the sacred is a license to dismiss other people’s interests, and an imperative to reject the possibility of compromise.

I want to empower women.

I have affected the way women are regarded, and that's important to me.