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?
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.
Just answer: No, but have you ever been kicked in the balls several times a day for a whole week every single month since you were 11?
i have been hit with a baseball in the balls many times, but it won't ever feel worse then what you got, and, too be honest, it's probably the same amount of pain, but getting hit in the balls is like "OW OH F*****G LORD, oh, it's gone." and a period is "OW OG F*****G LORD, AND IT'S STILL F*****G GOING."
Load More Replies...To be fair, men don't know what a period feels like and women have no idea what a kick in the balls feels like....
I was just going to say, what is this whole "Yeah, but we have it so much worse" thing? Being a woman is shitty for several reasons, being a man is shitty for several other reasons. Let's just be compassionate and not make this a race.
Load More Replies...Unfortunately periods get treated as a kind of taboo - by all sexes. In school they tell you about the mechanics, but I never knew about the amount of discomfort (for want of a better word) that some women can experience until I was much older.
And they also never tell you that while minor discomfort is normal big discomfort is a sign of a gynecological problem like pcos, adenomyosis or endometriosis. All women should know that. Unfortunately not even all gynecologists aknowledge it
Load More Replies...I've heard it explained that being kicked in the balls for men is excruciating. Why does pain have to be used as some sort of competition? There's sharp pain, dull pain, throbbing pain, tight pain, etc, and all types at all levels. There's pain that lasts, pain that appears slow, pain that goes away fast. It's just like the nurses at the hospital asking women getting IVs without anesthetics if they've ever had a baby, and telling them if they've had a baby it should be so painful. Or when nurses laugh at men who can't take a needle.
"Put a clamp on your balls for a week, then tell me I'm exaggerating" is my usual response.
I was talking to a male friend of mine about the Olympic cross country skier who got frostbite on his penis - our discussion moved on to men being kicked in the balls - his comment at that time was that he has seen his wife give birth, and he would take a kick in the balls over that any day of the week
But seriously - does every woman on here have such intense menstrual pain??
I only feel a dull ache and have mental fog for the first day or two. I am so grateful that is as bad as it gets for me.
Load More Replies...Being kicked in the balls feels a lot worse but it only lasts for a maximum of a few minutes. Periods last for days. I’d personally take a kick to the balls over a period any day of the week
Some period cramps hurt as much as a heart attack so I doubt being kicked in the balls is that much worse if worse at all
Load More Replies...We sure normalise horrible periods. It pays to check things out if it’s that bad, it shouldn’t be
Thank you! I never had a problem beyond mad chocolate cravings and mild backpains for a day.
Load More Replies...Not gonna lie, it hurts really bad to be kicked in the balls, but I'm sure what my sisters and mom are going through is worse.
S**t I can forgive the ignorant teenage boy. It's the grown ass men who say this kind of s**t that makes me want to smack someone. Like yeah and I have squeezed two kids out of my vagina but I don't find the need to walk around and compare that to something that you have had happen to feel important. I don't know what it feels like to be kicked in the balls and they don't know what it feels like to have periods or children. I still feel for them because I know it has to fricken hurt. It's not a contest who's genitals and insides cause more distress. However, we have periods monthly, generally guys only get kicked in the balls when they "deserve" it, or have dumb friends who need to grow up. I quote deserve it because what really equates to deserving it and what most women think deserves that are two different things. I personally don't think it's ever ok to kick a guy there unles it's for self defense or something serious like that.
Oh ,baby boy no God liked me he put them on the inside but how many kids have you pushed out. And your pain only comes if your a jerk my pain is EVERY MONTH. And I didn't do a damn thing.
Not only have I been kicked in the balls but I regularly sit down and crush my balls, the pain lasts what? 5 minutes tops? Not comparable.
And to make even dumber, so many teenage boys PERPOSFULLY kick each other in the balls or do stupid tricks that get them hit just for online clout. Like, if it hurt THAT bad I don't think you would do that. I don't know a single period haver who would intentionally give themselves periods or cramps
Yeah, except it does hurt. That's the point - I mean, do you watch the Jackass guys jumping off of roofs and careening down mountains in shopping carts and think "They must be doing that because it *doesn't* hurt?" Getting hit in the balls can legit cause someone to pass out. Vomiting from the pain from a solid shot is also pretty common. They're an internal organ that evolution put on the outside - it's 'sensitive.'
Load More Replies...That's why the person I vented that simulator of periods for men machine. Please, all you ladies, go find a video and watch it.
Closest a guy can get to experiencing what a period feels like is having kidney stones on about 4mm in size on a regular basis, the level of pain is comparable to having an angry honey badger pissed off at her husband for giving her syphilis trying to claw her way out of your abdomen with a rusty brillow pad so she can murder his cheating ass.
My mood never gets messed with. I just get the cramps and lose my appetite. I mainly sleep because of cramps. My cramps vary sometimes I don't even get cramps and other months I do.
No but I have been the kicker! But to quote Betty White "vaginas take a hell of a lot more pounding than balls do!"
This was always the dumbest teenage idiocy. Guys don't understand how uncomfortable it is to have their period for a week. Girls can't comprehend the feeling of getting hit in the balls. It's like someone who was shot and dying and someone with cancer and dying trying to argue which pain is worse.
I had a woman I work with once say to me 'if you want to imagine a period, just imagine going through a minor mental break while trying to pass a kidney stone' Not sure if that is accurate at all, but I am a lot more sympathetic to "I can't do this, its a really bad period day" now
Seriously tho ladies.... it is horrendous..... But, it only lasts one day. Doesn't seem fair to yall
My boyfriend and I were talking the other day about giving birth, kick in the balls and periods. We really don't get all the comparison on pain. A kick in the groin often is worse pain for a rather short time, giving birth is a little less pain for (often alot) longer time, (so are periods for that matter). But pain is also subjective, your pain can be much greater than mine despite being from identical incidents. Pain does not lessen because someone else's is worse. Thanks for watching my train of thought pass by!
I worked for years in self defense. Once, a student accidentally kicked one of our instructor in her crotch - it did not seem the same as it would have for guys, but it *definitely* wasn't nothing. She was in some serious pain and had an unpleasant few days. Genitals have a lot of nerve endings - general rule: if it's fun having it kissed, you likely don't want it kicked.
Load More Replies...Try having it done 24 hours for 3-7 days every month from the time you are about 11 to in your 50's. Then come back and talk to the women about it. Research has found that period cramps are as painful as a heart attack. And we go through it every month for days.
Load More Replies...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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