The reason it's so difficult to address is that it goes all of the way back to the origin of western civilization in ancient Egypt, and the birth of monotheism. Pharaoh Akhenaton, who attempted to replace the pagan gods of Egypt with the singular Aton, preached a gospel of absolute equality, even going so far as to have himself depicted as both man and woman in art.

The reason it's so difficult to address is that it goes all of the way back to the origin of western civilization in ancient Egypt, and the birth of monotheism. Pharaoh Akhenaten, who attempted to replace the pagan gods of Egypt with the singular Aton, preached a gospel of absolute equality, even going so far as to have himself depicted as both man and woman in art.

The reason it's so difficult to address is that it goes all of the way back to the origin of western civilization in ancient Egypt, and the birth of monotheism.