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".
I get it. just remember that guys who speak like that about periods, a perfectly natural process. Have no brain, and are more than likely a**holes. Rape is a sad thing and only the victim should choose whether or not it should be a public subject. It strikes close to home for me so when I hear anyone discussing rape or abuse I shut it dow,, because some people don't respect boundaries.
Load More Replies...Republicans have just passed a law (trying to find the state) that allows family members of the rapist to sue if the woman who has been raped for getting an abortion.
That's a generalisation. Almost all men are disgusted with rape, and only a minority are disgusted with periods.
The problem is the ones that are disgusted by periods are much louder than the other men. I'm not saying the other men don't speak up about how horrible rape is, it's just that the ones grossed out by periods make it way too obvious.
Load More Replies...Idk any mature guy that is actually disgusted with periods, and the only guys who are okay with rape are rapists. So, if you know anyone like that, get away from them.
Idk, my hubby's less disgusted by my periods than I am lol. He thinks rapists should be castrated as well and he's not a "young progressive" he's a center right boomer.
As a man periods don't bother me and Disgust isn't strong enough of a word to describe what I think of rape.
Rape deserves death, your period deserves ice cream and a blanket with a nice book/movie.
Men are disgusted with rape. It's some twisted psychopaths, and a lot of them unfortunately happen to be men!
Ah yes, a good natured post which immediately turns into a violent debate. How I love boredpanda.
Made me laugh! I agree. I am guilty of violent debate on a seemingly innocent post too.
Load More Replies...Must mean vocally, otherwise this is a pretty dense person. Which kind of goes to every single girl a guy knows is going to have their period. So you know, it's a conversation that is going to come up. Not going to just bring up rape conversations with anyone and everyone, because I'd imagine it's uncomfortable and you don't know if that might be sensitive for that person? Jesus, the more I look at this the dumber this gets. Literally the only guys like this would be the ones commiting rape.
I just tried about 7 times to put my thoughts into words that don't sound like "but not all guys" so I'll just keep it short. I think rape is worse than murder, but I also believe everyone should be treated innocent until proven guilty. With as powerful as a rape accusation is, news outlets should be required to report when someone is acquitted of such charges instead of dropping the story. And when someone is convicted the victim should have say in the sentencing, maybe not in a public fashion, but let the judge lay out options to the victim in private and they can weigh in on it
USA - I'm not sure if its legal for the victim to "help" decide the sentencing beyond their testimony or impact statement. If they helped in the decision, this would lead to potentually very different outcomes for the crime and allow for unfair influence of family members if this was a rape within the family. Not for this concept.
Load More Replies...Most men may be more disgusted by rape than of sanity pads, but many of those men are not more disgusted with rape than they actually defend their rapist friends/brothers/aqcuaintancies.
MEN are not disgusted by periods and MEN are completely disgusted by rape MEN are also disgusted by the ones that can't realize that REAL MEN are victims of being thrown in with scum who are disgusted with our lineages natural prosses and not bothered by the attack's of the innocent so woulden be nice if Women would not throw real men under the bus as much as women say MEN insted of a mor accurate classification such as criminal's, indesent humans, or attacker thanks lady's if that's not to much of an impossions
It is profound ignorance that any man would be disgusted about menstruation. If their mothers did not menstruate, they wouldn't even be here. What is their problem?
Most men don’t give a s**t about periods but will kill a mf who rapes....js
Rape isn't about sex its about power. Most men would never mostly due to ego but most men don't want to force sex they like willing partners. I had a couple of guys tell me their exs were "cold fish". Rape can happen to men and women men are less likely to report.
The ones messed up enough to rape now would still be doing that.
I must admit, I have yet to meet a man who is really "disgusted" by periods; I assume it is a cultural thing? At most I have heard jokes of the kind "A brave sailor does also sail the Red Sea" and the like...
Imagining women less disgusted by periods here. Waiting for all the downvotes because, women really liking or enjoying their periods is the most unimaginable... as if mestruation was really a curse
Disgusted? I'm going with inconvenient, painful, messy...but not quite "disgusting." There is quite a bit of room between disgusted and enjoying a period.
Load More Replies...Men who rape women are misogynists. They see women as objects and periods of signs that women are inhuman.
Load More Replies...Are you really insinuating that a woman gets turned on by being raped? Is that what you're saying, you disgusting piece of s**t? How about you see a doctor about that pathetic vestigial sac where you should have grown a pair of balls, and see a shrink while you're at it. Vile cockroach.
Load More Replies...Rapists don't wear an 'I'm a rapist' t-shirt. You might not know the true nature of these disgusting men until it's too late.
Load More Replies...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?
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.
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.
Load More Replies...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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