Give & Take Respect!! Respect someone for their gender or respect them for an individual?

Recently I have been having these debates with a few chauvinist acquaintance on their demand of being respected because they were MEN???! Hello?!!

I never could digest this thought of respecting someone because he was a man(rather male in gender)..!! Why is a dick more dignified than a Vagina?? If at all a gender deserves any respect, shouldn't it be for the vagina bearing one? Enlighten me please...!!