And by the way, to back up post 42 and counter post 41:
3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e5 c5 5.a3 Bxc3+ 6.bxc3 Qa5?! 7.Bd2! Qa4 scores White 57.1% across 746 games (so a weaker result than 6...Ne7)
3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e5 c5 5.a3 Bxc3+ 6.bxc3 Ne7 7.Qg4 O-O is fine, Black is under no obligation to go Poisoned Pawn - I simply said 7.Qg4 is best. That said, this still scores 56.75% for White across 1479 games!
Therefore, your argument for equality is bogus! Get that number down to 52% or lower - then speak about equality. Your lines, scoring 57.1 and 56.75 percent for White, respectively, are worse than the main responses, which still score over 55% for White.
1...c5 and 1...e5 are stronger than the French.
Evaluation is completely equal in the advance and winawer. The poisoned pawn is good for white imo but black has the Qa5-Qa4 variation which is hard to crack. He also has the simple solid 0-0 after Qg4 in the mainline.
Your statement is useless and wrong.
So I am supposed to trust someone over 500 rating points below me (Your 1601 standard vs my 2146 OTB) that just makes blanket statements about equality and doesn't back it up with physical evidence. The previous post has physical evidence to back up what is said.
Try doing that next time so you don't sound like some beginner that thinks he knows everything and instead doesn't know squat!