Treating women like a piece of celery

This post is really just to expand on this week's Q&A.  In it, I said that vegetarianism would not topple patriarchy, if it really exists (it would have helped if it was defined by the author, as many femenists have varying views on the term).  One of the problems that I had with Kheel's argument was how she linked together men's sexual and actual appetites.  I can understand the metaphor linking the two together, but the connection stops there.  Kheel seems to suggest that meat is fueling the objectivity of women in society.  I feel that if that was truly the case, then a lot of guys would have strange meat fetishes.  So even if everyone went vegan, nothing about how some men treat women would change.  Instead of being treated like a piece of meat, they would be treated like a piece of celery.