Earth to earth-dwellers...

When 

"ONCE AGAIN, IT APPEARS THAT MR. X NEVER HAS TO LEARN HOW TO RESPECT OTHERS THE WAY MR. Y HAS TO IN ORDER TO GET MARRIED" 

met

"GOSH, I almost wanted to say, 'I'm sure if Dude A acted like Dude B, Dude A might be in jail by now,' but then again not really, because the system is flooded with patriarchal people who are simply performing, sometimes almost by rote, the patterns they were taught by the system."

in an Earth Life.