Are women oppressed? YES!
Are men using religion as a cover to oppress women? YES, some of them!
Is asking for equal rights for men and women the solution? Hell no! That will be washing urine with feces!
What you should do is ask for the rights of women! Request for more stringent regulations that punish beasts among men. Imagine a woman in an abusive marriage for instance, whose husband always beats her, then you talk about equal rights for her, do you want her to learn Taekwando or Tai chi? So that when next her husband raises a fist to hit her she hits him with a flying Van Damme kick? I am sure you know life is not a movie and all women can't be Cynthia Rothrock - sorry if I got carried away by Old Classics, I am sure you got the picture😀. What you should strive for is how to make such men pay and deter others.
Beyond that, you need to stop playing the victim all the time and admit your own shortcomings that contribute to your woes. Stop letting your hearts sail you to ruin, picking the wrong man over the follies of love, and when it boomerangs you come out to blame all men.
Many of you are so greedily fixated on the rights of men that you wish to be yours that you no longer know what exactly are the rights of a woman in marriage. I once asked a woman what she considered the most important rights of a woman in marriage and she said "her opinion should matter. She should be carried along in every decision he makes in the house". "What next " I asked. "To have eyes for her alone". I just shook my head, women are like that. She probably lacked those things when she answered. If I were to see her in a year or two and ask the same question she would mention those things she missed at that moment. If you don't know what your rights really are how will you know what and how to ask?
That woman whose post you are reading, speaking polished English about how men are scum blah blah lah may be just another heart broken woman from a broken marriage or relationship. You can't know better than God. There are rights fixed that has been given to you, which is enough reason to leave a marriage if a man refuses to give them to you despite all efforts to make him do so, such as the right to feeding, clothing and shelter as the basics, then there should be emotional fulfillment and companionship. A woman is entitled to protection at all times and should be shielded from whatever exposes her very delicate nature to stress in the society.
Unfortunately all this call for equal rights is turning our men lazy and even hostile to women and pushing our women to do even more difficult tasks to measure up to men, and they pretend like all is well, 'suffering and smiling'. What the Fish should request for is clearer water to swim in not smoother grounds to run because she is confident that in the water she will run faster than a Cheetah! Ask for your rights because you have the right to ask for that, but asking for rights that were not yours by default will only make life difficult for you.
Good work