Quote Originally Posted by SiuiS View Post
There is a very real argument to be made that, the first time someone hears you defend the idea that women are people, you plant the idea yourself that they aren't and that needs fixing.

Really though, I've never seen feminism as "women are people", it's always been women have rights. Starting from a base 0, the idea that women don't need special treatment covers just about everything you could complain about, because it plants te idea, unspoken, that the basis of special treatment is false – that they've been people the whole time and other people are just gits.
It's a fairly well-known quote(although the attribution is a bit different each time, curiously) and you're fairly lucky that you haven't encountered arguments to the contrary in your meatspace neck of the woods with or without having said a thing.