50 Painfully-Relatable Posts From This Instagram Account That Tries To Sum Up What Women Struggle With
The life of a woman in today's world is hard to describe. Our society, at least for the most part, no longer promotes a single image of how one should look or behave.
The classic cocktail of femininity, modesty, discretion, virtue, and graciousness has become a relic of a bygone era, an out-of-place artifact in contemporary culture.
But there's an Instagram account that manages to sum it up quite well. At least 1.7 million people who follow it think so. It's called "Female's Problems" and just like the name suggests, it shares memes about the everyday struggles of a modern woman.
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Looking at these memes, it's clear that our society hasn't achieved gender equality quite yet. But that doesn't mean the situation is hopeless.
Chilean writer Isabel Allende, whose novels are often based upon her personal experience and historical events and pay homage to the lives of women, thinks that we're certainly progressing.
"I have lived enough to see great changes in the situation of women," Allende told The New York Times in an interview. "Little by little, women are chipping away the patriarchy. The fact we have not been able to replace it yet doesn't mean we have failed; it means that the job is monumental. But it's not impossible."
"I believe it will happen, but not in my lifetime, and it will happen only if women are educated, informed, connected and active. It takes very little for us to lose the rights we have obtained. Best recent example: the Taliban. In a few days, women and girls lost all their rights in Afghanistan, and the most awful form of patriarchy took over the country. We have to be vigilant: Given the wrong circumstances, it can happen anywhere."
Hi guys in the replies. Yes, you might be more disgusted with rape, but from what we ladies get to HEAR, i.e., what men say PUBLICLY, it's a lot of disgust about periods, and rarely men at the office water bottle saying "have you heard about Sarah Everard, rape is such a s**t thing, acutally, all sexism is".
We can even verify this quantitatively. Since 2006, the Global Gender Gap Index has been measuring the extent of gender-based gaps among four key dimensions: economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, health and survival, and political empowerment. Tracking the progress towards closing these gaps over time, it reports benchmarks and provides country rankings that allow for effective comparisons across and within regional peers. According to its 2020 findings, there is still a 31.4% average gender gap that remains to be closed globally.
Across the four characteristics, on average, the largest gender disparity lies within political empowerment. Despite being the most improved dimension that year, the gap on this subindex has only been closed by 25%, meaning there are still not enough women occupying seats in government across the world.
I sometimes wonder why we are so attracted to boobs. I mean, they look no better than any other part of a woman's body. Why aren't I turned on by elbows?
However, it's important to note that the political empowerment subindex fails to measure the legal rights of women and girls in comparison to those of men, which plays a significant role in determining the extent to which a society is equal.
"Although progress [has been] made in advancing women’s rights, it has been slow and inconsistent, and many sex-discriminatory laws remain entrenched,” Romina Canessa, a human rights lawyer at Equality Now, told Global Citizen. “When governments deny women and girls the same rights as men and boys, this legitimizes discrimination and abuse, and means they have no formal recourse if their rights are violated.”
The economic and labor market gender gap has been closed by 58%. This is due to the fact that, on average, only 55% of women are participating in the global workforce, and their presence in higher-yielding positions is even lower.
Plus, this disparity is exacerbated by the global wage gap, which affects women across all industries and backgrounds, and has remained relatively stagnant throughout the last five years or so. These components highlight the challenges women face to escape poverty and become financially and economically independent.
Genuinely curious as to why a Trigger warning is necessary on a period post...
At least 35 of the 153 surveyed countries have closed the education gender gap by 96.1%. However, this number varies across education levels.
Globally, girls are less likely to receive an education due to gender-based discrimination, child marriage, and the burden of fulfilling domestic chores, all of which prevent young girls and teens from attending school.
While more young girls and women are attending primary and secondary school, less than half are going on to attend college.
Embarrassed about nature? What is wrong with these people?
I tell my husband I watch them to learn the signs if he's thinking of murdering me bc he thinks I watch to learn how to murder him wo being caught. Lol. When I reality I really like the narrators voices
Bill Curtis's voice is very soothing. I fall asleep to his narration.
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For me it's cuz I want to know why the person did what they did, interest in how the mind works. I hate when they don't find out the motive. I think that's maybe a more feminine trait, to try to understand what others are thinking and why they act how they act. More of a masculine trait to focus on "they did what they did, doesn't matter why". At least in my view. Maybe that has something to do with it?
Survival wise it makes sense. We do have more incentive to study what makes someone behave a certain way as just one more tool in our "I don't want to die today" toolbox lol
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Whenever my wife says "I'm amazed we've been married as long as we have without killing each other" I respond "I'm lulling you into a false sense of security, watch those steps coming down the stairs".
Hubby may watch a few of these. When I got my knee replaced the doctor mentioned that each knee has a serial number on it. Hubby approved, he said that way my body could be identified no matter how I died...
The humane society ads during the commercial breaks disturb my dogs who must wonder why I watch tortured animals for entertainment. (My remote is broken.)
The funny thing is that the humane society and PETA cause the majority of domesticated animal deaths per year because they often times kill the animals that don’t get adopted quick enough. Believe me or not, that’s how they do it and it is so damn ironic watching those ads
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My sister loves these crime shows too, I think it's mostly for the comfort of knowing that she herself is safe and that she can keep herself safe from not doing what some of those women did, which unfortunately most of the time is: Trusting men
Don’t trust men you haven’t known for more than five or six months. They’ll do men things otherwise
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To learn ofc. How to not become the victim, and how to leave clues if you do become one.
I'm not sure how accurate that is, because men are way more likely to be homicide victims than women.
For me, the interest is in how the crime is solved. If the show focuses more on the gory details, or the criminal, I'm not interested. The criminal should have no fame and should be forgotten. Let's remember the victims and the awesome people who made sure the crime was punished. Forensic files did this perfectly (and of course as someone else mentioned, the wonderful narrator is part of the appeal).
I don't get it either. Although I'm starting to get bored of them now. I've probably seen everything there is. I was like that for years before I heard how popular it was. I thought it was just me with a morbid fascination.
Personally, I am just f%#@ed up, but I know a lot of women who want to know what to avoid, warning signs, and how others escaped.
I hate how it's always a rape victim and what the victim wore is always scrutinized as a motive, and the motive surrounding the crime is the main focus. That is so far from actual crime investigations and forensic analysis. Motives can be brought up in court and used against both sides, but are not the concerns of those collecting evidence. It can be recorded from witness statements, but not made up by investigators.
Its coz its very informative, entertaining and might come in handy LOL
That's true. My husband hates it when I watch the Crime Investigation Channel but I actually watch it for the cinematography too. They usually film it in all the far flung places in USA and it's fascinating to see how violence occurs in such beautiful places.
My wife is addicted to the ID channel and knows how to kill someone with an egg. I know why women watch these shows and I'm Not poking the bear
I hate "true" crime shows. And I hate all the screaming and crying. FFS take a self defense class. Oh, you had one and you're a female cop? So USE what you learned in class!
It's how we process and explore a genuine danger from a risk free place
They're not entertaining, they're cautionary tales and we're taking notes!
Maybe it helps us look for red flags earlier and have a plan... they just trigger ptsd for me now tho, so I don't watch them much.
I watch them to see how the POS was able to hurt the woman so I can try to prevent it happening to me. 😔
Maybe it is a metaphor, that women are harmed in society and in the show, at least, there is usually justice or retribution.
It calms my anxiety because it gives me perspective and a false sense of control.
My favorite was Unusual Suspects - very intriguing - and didn't show dead bodies (like some of them do). It's no longer being made. The next favorite is Evil Lives Here: Shadows of Death, because of the emotional detail they go into. That one is still being made. I don't watch them as much as I used to. Oh - and Cold Justice. Especially the early ones, before one half of the original female team left.
i mean unless your watching Snapped or dangerous women. then its just inspiration
Crimes are really hard to understand from the perspective of a regular person. Watching this shows give us information. Like when people study plane crashes. We can learn from situations like that...
Nah cause *most* chickens will be killed by humans, most women will not.
When my Husband and I first started dating, he asked me why I "watch those shows all the time". Without so much as a hesitation, I slowly turned, looked him directly in the eyes and calmly said: "Doing research, why?" Then slowly grinned until he looked away. Till this day he kinda looks scared when I'm watching a true crime show. 🤭😏😈
We want to see person responsible found and dealt with. That means one less creep in the world to target us.but I loved the analogy.
It's the other way around my partner loves those true-crime shows and I absolutely despise them. You'll be listening to shots rang out at 8:30 in the morning. Nobody needs to watch The First 48 before noon. But I'm sitting there watching Doctor pol put a prolapse back in a cow while eating dinner and not say anything about it
No they aren't. Why do you have to lie to prove your point? Just bc you hate woman you always lie about them. You should seek therapy. You'll learn why you're like this and feel happier when you take responsibility for yourself instead of blaming women for your sadness.
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Although the global gender gap for health care and survival has been closed by 95.7%, millions of women worldwide still do not have equal access to health care, especially reproductive health care.
Jennifer Weiss-Wolf, vice-president for development at the Brennan Center for Justice, thinks that period poverty and menstrual stigma play significant roles in holding society back from achieving gender equality, noting that these barriers can also hold them back from participating in politics, the workforce, and education.
“If menstruation inhibits anybody from any one of those things, it inhibits them from all four, which places it squarely in the heart of what it means to achieve full gender equality,” she explained. “If we don’t have policies in place to ensure a safe and open, and accurate discussion around menstruation, treatment of menstruation, in all of these ways, we are leaving off the table a considerable component.”
In order to achieve gender equality and make all of these pictures a thing of the past, countries across the globe must increase the number of women in government, ensure education is accessible to all women and girls, create free or affordable child care so that more women can participate in the labor market, and provide access to safe reproductive health care.
Been there recently. My ex showed me almost no affection like that unless I asked for it, and then she would make fun of me for asking for cuddles. My girlfriend does stuff like that without me asking and I legit have to hold back tears most of the time cos it makes me feel so loved. Good tears, for sure
I have yet, in 33 years of my life, find jeans that fit my height. Even when I lost weight I could not find a pair that fit. Not to mention the lack of pockets...
Looool, that is so god damn true and I wanna know why on earth we do that 😂😂
I'm not gay or lesbian, but as an artist I have always preferred drawing females and figure-hugging fashions because females. Some say it's a focus on sexualization. Absolute non. It's way more complex than that and difficult to describe.
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Ladies can we talk about the stitching in the crotch area of underwear? Do the makers of underwear not know female anatomy? It needs to be few inches higher but O, it's cuter that way for the boys to see.
I think PCOS should have been touched on. It’s estimated it effects 10% of women and the problems that go along with it are varied and ridiculous. Try bleeding for a year, OR going for a year with no periods but wackadoodle hormones.
I had to start on a very low dose of zoloft to help with the waxkadoodle hormones. Did help though! Went from feeling like Sybil to just the many faces of Eve.
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Not every period having women on earth feels that misserably. There are some that hardly have any disconfort at all. Sure I'm going downvoted to "sorry, your are suspended for commenting on bp" level, but still true.
I am a guy. I can't understand this way of thinking at all. The only problem with buying tampons is getting the right kind. There are so many products with similar names and my wife is so particular about what she wants. Not that I blame he one bit. Something like this you want to stick with what you know is going to work. But I just don't get why some guys get so grossed out. It's just blood.
Lets have a similar section on what men deal with. They have their own set of issues.
Yes, but nobody cares because bp made "women" a selling point on every post.
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I won't tell anyone to get over it, but seriously: never had a problem with my period. Neither any of my friends. I get that people wanna share the pain, but it's not the norm that you hurt this bad. It's inconvenient, sure, but even that got much better with my discovery of period cups
Being ever the optimist I would like to think D20 games post was badly worded.. dont let your body stop you from being the best you can be.. but also a little compassion for something you have acknowledged you dont understand would go a long way
"Women struggle with" as if men dont struggle when we have to deal with roughly the same
I honestly agree, all of this "women" b******t is just a selling point. Men have to deal with no emotional support barely any physical and everyone treating us like s**t. Glad to see people with the same opinion.
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I've had excruciating period pains for 20yrs, screaming on the floor, vomiting, can't stand or walk, have a fever, delerium, eyes roll back in my head and I struggle to stay conscious. You sound like every single doctor I went to over the past 2 decades, and even the women doctors admonished me "you're making it out to be worse than it is, every woman goes through it, stop complaining and suck it up, you're making us all look bad". 20 goddamn years of agony, finally I found a doctor who would listen, did a scan, lo and behold severe endometriosis where i'm probably already infertile, a massive cyst on my ovary, and nothing can be done without extremely invasive surgery, possibly a hysterectomy. If the doctors had listened years ago I could have gotten treatment, minor surgery to remove the beginning endometriosis, been pain free, saved my fertility so at least I had the choice to have children. Your attitude doesn't help women, you're just mocking your fellow sisters the way men do.
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Ladies can we talk about the stitching in the crotch area of underwear? Do the makers of underwear not know female anatomy? It needs to be few inches higher but O, it's cuter that way for the boys to see.
I think PCOS should have been touched on. It’s estimated it effects 10% of women and the problems that go along with it are varied and ridiculous. Try bleeding for a year, OR going for a year with no periods but wackadoodle hormones.
I had to start on a very low dose of zoloft to help with the waxkadoodle hormones. Did help though! Went from feeling like Sybil to just the many faces of Eve.
Load More Replies... Not every period having women on earth feels that misserably. There are some that hardly have any disconfort at all. Sure I'm going downvoted to "sorry, your are suspended for commenting on bp" level, but still true.
I am a guy. I can't understand this way of thinking at all. The only problem with buying tampons is getting the right kind. There are so many products with similar names and my wife is so particular about what she wants. Not that I blame he one bit. Something like this you want to stick with what you know is going to work. But I just don't get why some guys get so grossed out. It's just blood.
Lets have a similar section on what men deal with. They have their own set of issues.
Yes, but nobody cares because bp made "women" a selling point on every post.
Load More Replies... I won't tell anyone to get over it, but seriously: never had a problem with my period. Neither any of my friends. I get that people wanna share the pain, but it's not the norm that you hurt this bad. It's inconvenient, sure, but even that got much better with my discovery of period cups
Being ever the optimist I would like to think D20 games post was badly worded.. dont let your body stop you from being the best you can be.. but also a little compassion for something you have acknowledged you dont understand would go a long way
"Women struggle with" as if men dont struggle when we have to deal with roughly the same
I honestly agree, all of this "women" b******t is just a selling point. Men have to deal with no emotional support barely any physical and everyone treating us like s**t. Glad to see people with the same opinion.
Load More Replies... I've had excruciating period pains for 20yrs, screaming on the floor, vomiting, can't stand or walk, have a fever, delerium, eyes roll back in my head and I struggle to stay conscious. You sound like every single doctor I went to over the past 2 decades, and even the women doctors admonished me "you're making it out to be worse than it is, every woman goes through it, stop complaining and suck it up, you're making us all look bad". 20 goddamn years of agony, finally I found a doctor who would listen, did a scan, lo and behold severe endometriosis where i'm probably already infertile, a massive cyst on my ovary, and nothing can be done without extremely invasive surgery, possibly a hysterectomy. If the doctors had listened years ago I could have gotten treatment, minor surgery to remove the beginning endometriosis, been pain free, saved my fertility so at least I had the choice to have children. Your attitude doesn't help women, you're just mocking your fellow sisters the way men do.
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