&gt;  Adams compares women to children and people with mental disabilities.<p>What was the point he was trying to make with the comparison?  If he said &quot;Like women, children and the mentally disabled have been oppressed by the patriarchy&quot;  it would mean something very different from what he did say, but your statement would still apply.<p>What I&#x27;m trying to say is that your first point, on its own, isn&#x27;t sufficient to condemn him.<p>This is the issue I have with broad statements like &quot;so-and-so compared X to Y&quot; without specifying what the point of the comparison was. That&#x27;s the point of a metaphor: to compare two otherwise unlike things in order to show how one has the trait the other also has.  If I say a boxer has a glass jaw, I&#x27;m not saying his jaw is translucent, just that he is vulnerable to blows in a similar way that it would be if his jaw were made of glass.<p>This is important because I think people misinterpret metaphors on a regular basis.