With all due respect, I doubt you can understand what it's like to be a woman in Russia, or the West. :) If you read some of the comments from female readers here, they do not agree with you that everything is the same. About gays, yes I support 100% equality. I don't care who someone loves, or what they do in their bedrooms. It has absolutely no impact on my life. And I'd rather a child grow up in a loving, supportive home with two people of the same sex, than spend their childhood with heterosexual drug addicts, alcoholics or losers.