50 Times People Called Out Blatantly Sexist Things That Are Still Prevalent In Society (New Pics)
Life’s full of blatantly sexist things and the everyday heroes of the internet keep calling them out, poking fun at them, and shining a bright spotlight on them to make it clear—these things are not okay. And, bit by bit, society changes. Hopefully, for the better.
The r/TrollXChromosomes subreddit, an online group that’s been active for a whopping decade and has over 812k members, documents when women and men confront sexism, misogyny, and toxic masculinity head-on. Have a look through some of their newest posts that we’ve collected for you, dear Pandas, and be sure to upvote the ones that rekindled your hope in greater equality in the world.
When you’re done with this list, we invite you to read through our first article about blatantly obvious sexism right here. Meanwhile, scroll down for our interview with psychotherapist Silva Neves, who explained to Bored Panda what men can do to put an end to toxicity, misogyny, and homophobia. According to him, it’s about redefining what ‘male success’ means and teaching society to stop turning a blind eye to what’s wrong.
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Absolutely Hate The Way Our Clothing Was Policed In School
We used to have to kneel on the floor to check our hem lengths, and have uniform inspections. Early 2000's.
Our schools absolutely tell students they have to wear masks. Everyone on campus must mask.
All the strictness for things like this goes away when boys are involved since apparently they don't deserve to be sent home like we do
Boys need an education you know 🙄 girls can just....be housewives or something. 😐 I am honestly so glad i went to school where i did because boys didnt get away with anything like this.
Load More Replies...I stand by this...all of this griping about dress codes could be eliminated if schools had a uniform policy. If everyone wore the same thing everyday, it would stop kids from being harassed for not having designer clothes and it would save parents the pain in the ass of complaining kids to get current styles and never again would it be a struggle what outfit to wear to school. I have no idea why this is not a viable solution, other than people who would complain about taking away freedom of expression.
What do you do about the kids that have the expensive shoes or book bags vs the kids that have the Walmart brands? Do you honestly think the harassment goes away because you're all forced to dress the same? It sure didn't happen in any school i went to whether it was uniform or simply a dress code. Someone always has the "better" version & they will always call out the kids that dont...
Load More Replies...But then they'd have to police the boys! AND the staff! How can they teach the girls to be repressed if they're being equitable?!
The End
Seeing how many people are unable to wear a simple mask correctly I no longer place any trust in condoms
Load More Replies...The medical risks, symptoms and physical toll of pregnancy are much more severe than those of a reversable vasectomy.
This is what I've been saying forever but men's bodies won't ever be policed only women's bodies. They want to control women bc it benefits them the men in charge. They make sure to pit us against each other too so we control ourselves and they have it easier. It's insane
They can be reversed but it is not considered a reversible surgery. 75% success rate if you have your vasectomy reversed within 3 years and the odds keep going down the longer you don't have it reversed. https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/contraception/vasectomy-reversal-nhs/
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Load More Replies...Having a vasectomy was one of the best choices I ever made anyway. Wish I had gotten it done sooner and without spending a thousand dollars. I'm for this.
I just learned that there was a sterilization law passed in 1909 in California, US that allowed state institutions to sterilize women who are deemed "unfit" or "feeble-minded". This went on for 70 years. Stop trying to regulate women's bodies. Leave us alone!
And back then there didn't need to be any proof that a woman was "unfit" or "feeble-minded." All someone had to do was say they were and that was enough to have the woman sterilized and/or institutionalized. So very sad.
Load More Replies...They are, but the body develops antibodies to your own sperm because they are blocked from leaving the body the normal way. So after reversing a vasectomy you might have a more difficult time getting someone pregnant because your body will still be attacking your sperm. That kind of why I'm hopeful that vasalgel will get approved in the US so men can get a effective, nonhormonal, form of birth control that last 10 years and can be reversed without any side effects. It still involves getting an injection into your junk so I'm sure lots of men will still puss out on getting it but hopefully that will eventually change.
Load More Replies...I stopped taking birth control pills in my late 20s because they made me sick to my stomach to the point that thinking about taking it would make nauseated. Tried a diaphragm for a while, what a mess! then got an IUD, excruciatingly painful to insert. When it was about to expire, I suggested to my husband that one or the other, or both of us get a vasectomy or tubes tied. He said doing this was "too permanent " Neither of us had a burning desire to be parents. My IUD expired and I became pregnant. Then, he wanted me to have an abortion but I refused. I changed my mind once I became pregnant and wanted to have my baby. He couldn't get to a doctor fast enough to get a vasectomy after the fact. I divorced him.
Powerful
THIS!!! STOP ENFORCING VICTIM BLAMING/SHAMING! I don't care if she was wearing nothing but socks.....NO means NO.
If a guy can go topless, so should a woman. (Though for both I wouldn’t recommend it in direct sunlight unless you have sunscreen on)
ESPECIALLY women should feel free to breastfeed their baby in public if they want to. It's perfectly normal and natural.
Load More Replies...I dress like a slût plenty, and I don’t care if other people think I do. And I don’t care what terms we use for “dressing revealing.” Just leave me alone. Think what you want.
What if you don't dress like a s**t, but still are a s**t? Then by virtue of that fact, you could be wearing overalls and layered sweatshirts, and still be totally dressed like a s**t. I feel like this has potential to be a math word problem.
Load More Replies...the problem with shaming women for dressing is that it affects us women too. i'm trying to combat my own internalized sexism, but it's hard. i sometimes find myself thinking that "she dresses like a tramp" or "i need to cover up, i look like a s**t". society needs to change
Human skin is natural. Repressed sexual views due to toxic cultural influences that lead to aggression and repression are not.
Education is a vital part of the fight for greater equality, compassion, inclusiveness, and respect. However, alone without any ongoing and passionate support from us, education isn’t the panacea against sexism, misogyny, and toxic masculinity that some of us are looking for. It’s not a one-and-done kind of deal: it’s a long, arduous, exhausting process, a war of attrition between competing ideas.
“Better education is definitely key but it is also down to all of us to challenge it by not allowing toxic masculinity to keep going. It means that we all have to actively challenge misogyny and homophobia,” psychotherapist Silva noted in an interview with Bored Panda. He added that both misogyny and homophobia are “still prevalent now in the UK,” where he is based, and “too many people continue to turn a blind eye when they see it.”
Just Let People Be
It took me awhile to figure out that it doesnt matter what kind of plumbing someone likes to play with, as long as everyone is happy and consenting. I've gotten to the point that I dont give a shart anymore and its one less thing to worry about. Let folks be themselves and worry about how they decent person towards others. You be cool and I be cool and we'll roll along on this mudball till we get planted in it.
"Plumbing" is the best euphemism I've ever heard.
Load More Replies...What I live by personally when it comes to accepting people for who they are is- if you're not intentionally hurting people or animals in any way (eating meat and such doesn't count. I mean like beating animals or something), you're all good in my books.
Sadly this is not always inforced in many spaces. I was banned from a sub once for saying that while trans people deserve all the support cis people are allowed to not want to have sex with them. Its sad how sometimes people asking for tolerance become so intolerant.
Right? The fact that I don't want to actually engage with someone's genitals has no bearing on my belief that they deserve equal rights. Then again, many of these same folks insist that bisexual women with male partners are "appropriating queer spaces" because they "perform heterormativity" and have "straight privilege." And don't get me started about their claim that "Any straight person at Pride is a threat to the gay community." F**k gatekeeping. Whoever you are and whatever gender-related label you prefer, there are millions and millions of us who will make sure there is space for you. Come on in... or out. <3
Load More Replies...Additionally, what you "feel" is not the law, and you are NOT allowed to force your feelings onto everyone else.
Let’s Eradicate The Terms “Consensual Sex” And “Non-Consensual Sex” - It’s Either Sex Or Rape. Language Shouldn’t Be Used As A Tool To Obfuscate Trauma And Horror
It’s always nice to see men on our side. They’re the nice guys and guess what, they didn’t make a psa about it. Actions always speaker louder than words
So many "rapists" on this post who don't get it?!? If it needs to be explained to you, please stay away from women at all times
Let me tell you about some of the romance writers I've worked with who insist that "noncon" and rape are different. Sweetie, if you think that, you shouldn't be writing any of this in the first place.
This makes me think of that 365 film on netflix. Dude literally KIDNAPPED a girl and told her he was keeping her for a year abd she would love him. I only got so far in so I dont know if they had sex at all, but the fact she had to be carried kicking and screaming and then tied to a plane chair to stop her from escaping made me pause and turn it off. But to some people, thats ok because he was good looking and he took her to a castle.... I imagine those people would have also said the sex was 'noncon' not rape. Some weird people.in the world.
Load More Replies...I believe it was the Bush administration that called War a conflict. The era of minimizing and the beginning of oxymorons like “No Child left behind” to describe gutting inner city school financing
It's not a war, it's a peaceful intervention! No wars here!
Load More Replies...Unfortunately in some places in the world there are still legal differences between the two.
I was shocked to learn that that is the case in 20+ European countries, which still won't classify non consensual sex as rape! In some Middle Eastern countries, women can be arrested for reporting rape under adultery laws for being with a man they are not related to.
Load More Replies...Let's Please Bring An End To Victim-Blaming, And Shaming
Incomplete analogy - she also needs to be the one who, on seeing a bloke be just a little tipsy, buys him more drinks before he's finished the last one, so he's kept just a little off-kilter by how many he's had, because of course, he shouldn't have drunk so much if he didn't want to get robbed.
You also need to add that "he's given stuff away in the past" so I thought he wanted to give his stuff to me!
Load More Replies...This needs to be read verbatim before any sexual assault hearing, because this is spot on.
According to Silva, men need to do their part and be more in tune with their emotions, instead of trying to repress them as is par for course with toxic masculinity.
“We need more representations of men who embrace their emotions, talk about them and show them with crying, laughing, or hugging,” he said.
Yeah, I'll just stick with calling it my little friend. My dad is Robert but he goes by Bob
Load More Replies...Vibrators are also good for throwing at politicians (look up Steven Joyce and the dildo on YouTube).
I usually say "oh it's not my biological clock it's a bomb and you should keep your distance" 💣
Load More Replies...Yet you never hear people say the same thing to men. After a certain age men are more likely to produce a child with neurological disorders and/or birth defects. Yet I have never once heard of any man being told his clock is ticking.
I do in fact want kids, so I would say "And it's gonna keep ticking until I find a person who won't say that to me."
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Honestly I stopped dating,so I don't start to judge men over a bunch of men which " don't find we match- but can I get some sexual service instead?" Annoying how often it happens.- and it's not my clothes or behavior.( I'm already used to this explanation automatically) Wanna stay openminded and believe in all the good guys out there- so I've just avoid this situations by now.
I literally had a guy message me and say "You're not hot, but I'll f**k you anyway" like I'd be soooo grateful. Yep, no more dating apps for me ty.
Load More Replies...And we are still warning/preparing our teenage daughters when it comes to dating.
I hope for a generation that will raise their sons better so we don't have to prepare our daughters for the worse
Load More Replies...And yet a therapist talked down to me for being wary of dating while I was particularly vulnerable.
What a crap....Hope you find a way to follow your own intuition.
Load More Replies...Hey, I'm glad at least he got it and understands how bad it actually is for women. Of course this thing can happen to men, but it very rarely does, and if it does happen a lot it isn't talked about enough.
I think the real question is why don't parents start teaching their kids about consent and how to be a normal human being?
Load More Replies...Women can murder, but they do so at significantly lower rates than men. By your logic, men are conditioned to be violent, in which case women are correct in being afraid.
Load More Replies...I'm Sure Selfawarewolves Would Love This
And for some reason the random guys that walk up to you uninvited are also very aggressive/mean when they realize it is not happening.
Yeah, it's probably because their egos are the biggest part of them and they just got kicked in the ego. I'm a guy and honestly, I hate everyone and anyone that doesn't take "NO" for an answer. I don't care if it's dating or "do me a favor"! NO means F-ing NO, PERIOD. Accept it and move on LOSER...
Load More Replies...The guys that say this have literally never been hit on by a gay man.
My sister and I were at a local hotel bar it was a girls night out we were all just chatting, She excused herself to go to the bathroom and came back completely flustered. Asked me to go to a specific room number to beat the crap out of a woman there. Me: “wait, what” Turns out when my sister was in the bathroom a woman hit on her and asked her to come up to her room and my sister being straight had no idea how to handle it. So I told my sister next time just say “thank you “, and realize you’re getting a compliment.
If a gay guy hit on you, you are most likely good looking and well dressed (stereotyping)
i always find it weird it's a phobia...it isn't really you hate them not scared of them.
I once had a guy wink at me and somehow copped a feel. My response after the initial shock? "ask my wife the next time, ok, bud?" He went tomato-red. We all alughed hard as hell at him. Now reverse that and see what happens...
Something else that drastically needs to change is how ‘male success’ and masculinity are defined. “We also need to change the image of 'male success'. So, basically, we need to change society at its core because toxic masculinity is part of a faulty system of thoughts. That will take time, but it can start with all of us doing our parts about it,” the psychotherapist told Bored Panda.
Oof
My comments that "feminism" arguments can span across the genders often get down votes. Men are people too.
Men can be feminists, too, and feminism is meant to help across genders. Men shouldn't be vilified for ordering a cocktail, crying, being the stay-at-home parent, or sitting next to their friend at the movies. Feminism helps everyone. Everyone needs to be in on the conversations... but remember that there are some things -- like my reproductive choices, for example -- that are not up for discussion.
Load More Replies...Things Women Shouldn't Wear
Apparently the truth is not appreciated on this site. I know very few men who give a rat's a$$ about women's fashion choices, but women rip on other women for their clothes all the time. All the articles online or in magazines that criticise famous women for their clothes are aimed squarely at women (and gay men).
Load More Replies...Can I just say, I really love when people can absolutely nail a professional look, and still manage to have an unnatural hair color. I’ve spent 16 years in professional work refusing to give up odd hair color choices because someone might be “offended”. One of my favorite managers had a good take on this - “I’m not naturally blonde, so what do I care if you’re not naturally green.” Reminds me a bit of the fight over visible tattoos.
Ah. but there is one other thing we shouldn't wear. Anything that makes us uncomfortable.
Rocketpacks....seriously they burn, especially if your bum sticks out.
Spot On. Really Effing Spot On
Unfortunately, there seems to be getting more of the wrong sort, with the internet spreading weird ideas and connecting the creeps together so they can feed off each other rather than being kept in check by decent male role models around them.
It's one of the bigger downsides to Big Data - algorithms link a person's preferences to the point where their internet experience becomes an echo chamber, constantly repeating and reinforcing the original belief and excluding all opposing ideas. (One of the upsides of Big Data being the Wisdom of Crowds phenomenon, just to give a balanced view)
Load More Replies...Here's a good analogy for this. Let's say I have a bowl of 100 jelly beans. 90 of them are safe, BUT 5 will make you sick and uncomfortable, 4 will give you intense pain and emotionally scar you, and the last 1 will kill you instantly if you eat them. Now, do you want a jelly bean? No? Exactly.
it’s like russian roulette. except you don’t get shot in the head, you die in a dark alley.
If there were three slices of cake, and one slice was poisoned, would you eat one? “But it’s not all slices.”
Not all men... but all men have a friend, know someone or seen a male do a horrific thing to another human that happened to be female and done/ said nothing or is even ok with it as it's just lads.
Every Single One
Same here. I just want to walk without having to be aware I could be raped or killed.
Load More Replies...I won't lie, reading this was an eye opener for me. It's not possible for me to fully understand the female experience and every time I see the actual depth of the problem I'm still shocked ...
I'm sorry to burst your bubble. In my 42 years of life, born female, I have NEVER done any of these.
My ex could not understand why I absolutely would NOT walk down to the lake by myself using a secluded path, or why my car doors were ALWAYS locked, or why the basement door was ALWAYS barricaded when he was not there. Well, because the 6PM news story always starts off with, "She was last seen..."
The scary thing for me is that I was mugged by a group of girls (I was 16 at the time, they were around 16 to 18 years old). So I'm wary of everyone now.
I am very sorry that hppened to you and completely understand why you are so wary.
Load More Replies...I tell people this. Ask any woman you know, any woman, and she has been sexually harassed or even sexually assaulted by some man somewhere at least one time. Every. Single. One.
Not necessarily. If you have had to do these things too, i do feel for you. If men do this regularly, it is not spoken about enough. Just don't dismiss my fears, as a woman, and i won't dismiss yours!
Load More Replies...Last night, I was catching the bus at 10:30pm and there was a drunk guy playing the guitar. I decided to get off at the stop before the last stop to avoid him (but it was also a slight shortcut). As I got off the bus, he stopped loudly singing off-key and said, "There you go, Lady, get home safe". Don't judge a book, etc. (On the other hand, I have been yelled at by drunks, because I ignored them calling out at me).
Had to start when I was eleven. ELEVEN. So many gross, creepy, disgusting perverts out there.
Never Thought Of It Like This
Well, one of my coworkers herself offered sexual services for promotion. My boss told her to go packing, as she wa s fired for that...
And this is a positive example of someone not using their position of authority to reward sexual favors. Someone with some integrity.
Load More Replies...Look at Neil down below. He literally said that he's so stupid that he lets women take advantage of him because he's too dumb to say no.
Load More Replies...Yes. She took advantage of her bosses to gain unearned promotions. Misandrists will go out of their way to blame men for women's actions.
Accountability is a woman kryptonite. Integrity is a man's kryptonite.
I hate this saying so much! Is it really that hard to believe a woman can be good enough at her job and work hard enough to be promoted without sex?
Cool
$11,000 a semester is middling. Elite schools can be 30,000+ a year
Load More Replies...The entitlement in the idea that one lives for the pleasure of others... Ugh!
"Girls don't like guys that try to control how they dress"
We'd wear pajama pants with sweatshirts and flipflop (with a baseball cap if you didn't want to wash your hair) to class when I was in college. It was a women's college and some people got so up in arms about how we were dressed when we were walking around campus. There were literally newspaper articles about it. Fortunately the professors fired back in letters to the editor saying that, well, the students are comfortable and they're learning. It's college, not a fashion show. So mind your own business.
I wore sweats to class every day because I was self-funding my education, and for several years, my wardrobe consisted of two sweatshirts and two pairs of jeans. Poverty chic.
Don't wear sweats, don't have bare shoulders.... Nunya business. We're not here to entertain you
Why do guys assume that girls go to the gym/clubs/ college to meet dudes?
Maybe this is a US thing. I was at University in the UK in the 90s and the idea of telling any woman what or what not to wear was unthinkable.
Mike doesn't care for your reasons, neither does the strangely attractive lesbian in the row behind him.They came, they saw, they appreciated.
Representation. Matters
Such an amazing movie. Why weren't we taught this as part of history when we learnt about the moon landing? Without these incredible women, the moon landing would not have been possible.
You know why this wasn't taught. Because they were Black and women. And the current republicans are trying to see that Black and Women's history stays buried with all these ant-"CRT" bills
Load More Replies...It's always bothered me that the original computers were women (literally), but somehow girls are just not as good at maths? Being a computer was one of the few jobs available to women, but girls in school are told that "maths is too hard for you". Oh, and when computers became machines they became exclusive boys clubs because they were threatened by women being good at using them. (I love this movie because it absolutely slams the race aspect as well, and seeing her use a computer machine gave me happy shivers)
It's because they don't see us women as actual people. As human beings.
Load More Replies...My wife is an engineer. Sometimes when we watch this movie (for the 30th or 40th time), we raise our fists in the air. By the way, the scene when John Glenn says to get the girl to check the numbers, and if she said they were right, he was good to go? That was a near verbatim quote of what actually happened. Katherine Johnson confirmed it. Johnson also got Apollo 13 back home after their disaster. The stories are endless.
Wonderful film. Also I hope that with more movies like that women in STEM will grow more.
I agree, but I also think that we shouldn’t value STEM above other types of degrees/careers. Women should be able to learn and do whatever they want. STEM is not the be-all, end-all parade of geniuses that modern society thinks it is.
Load More Replies...I want to upvote this more. Can we have, like, a once-a-day Supervote that gives 10 updoots or something?
as a white mid-40's male, this is one of my all-time hands-down favorite movies
Screw Misogyny
This is good enough to be number one. It’s so good there aren’t even many comments on it because there’s nothing else to say.
I know this is unrelated but I’m curious about your username. Newton’s Third Law? Or is it unrelated
Load More Replies...I am a non-woman, and i say you should have a balanced diet! *dramatic camera angle, o fortuna*
Load More Replies...My parents never talked about feminism, I just knew most men hated it so I thought it was a bad thing. I know differently now but it just goes to show how messed up society is.
When in reality, feminism helps men as much as it does women.
Load More Replies...The same way as "not all men" works, it's good to know that "feminazis" are not indicative of feminists.
I love watching the snake start to eat itself. Gender-equality people, NOT FEMINISM.
The question is why do we a society full of so many men hate women or at the very least expect them to be subservient, grateful and honored that a man pays attention to them much less marry them.
I have had so many men tell me that feminism isn't equality of the genders, I tell them that is exactly what it is, they say not anymore, and I tell them if they are not feminist, they don't support equality, that is it, end of discussion, and I couldn't continue to bother speaking to someone who sees me as less than them because I have tits.
Then they start with the "Then why isn't it called humanism?" crap. Not only is humanism a different ideology and philosophy, but feminism names the thing which is despised by and attacked in our society. So guys, if you're angry because men have trouble getting custody of their kids or because a Debbie calls the cops on you when you're at a playground with your daughter, or if you're pissed because you were always told to hide your pain and feelings, then THAT is why we all need feminism.
Load More Replies...Loyalty
Best way to teach them this is by having decent male role models in their lives that treat them with respect as they grow up, and by having female role models that don't put up with disrespect from their partners.
So many of us grew up without healthy models for relationships, between our own parents, the crap on TV/in movies, song lyrics, all of it.
Load More Replies...loyalty means staying with them through hardship, not cruelty. if you dump your s.o. for selling their expensive car, that’s bad. if they’re being cruel, run.
I think everybody should teach their children, both boys and girls, that you should expect and receive exactly the same you give. If you give commitment, loyalty and respect you should receive commitment, loyalty and respect from the other part. Otherwise it's not a relationship. We should never put up with a person that doesn't respect us. Never. It's not worth it.
I teach my daughters, from example, that not all men are to be distrusted or hated. I also teach them to be accountable for their own actions and not blame others for decisions they make!
ahem.. "girls always love the bad boys". Get over that, and we can talk
@Neil Powell — You need to get over your assumptions. I never liked ‘bad boys’ and steered away from those low lives, likewise most of the women and girls I have met throughout my life. Girls who were ignorant about the reality of the ‘bad boys’, with time, always end up hating the bad boys (if the girl remained alive, since ‘bad boys’ usually = sick abuser turned murderer, as proven by the statistics that says more than half of murdered women are murdered by a current or a former male intimate partner. The thing is, many of those perpetrators weren’t even ‘bad boys’ type, and this shows you, Neill, how sick and lacking in manhood so many of your gender is).
Load More Replies...Sperm donor/ Father taught me the opposite - eventually I realized it was because he WAS one of those "broken" men you speak of. Had to cut him out of my life before he "broke" me.
Do Not Hesitate To Ask What You Deserve
Absolutely! Employees in the same job should always compare salaries, especially men and women. Transparency in this case is never a bad thing.
If Im not mistaken, in the U.S., its illegal for an employer to prevent discussions about wage rates and working conditions. So of your told not to discuss your wage with anyone, then someone is more than likely getting screwed and its against federal law.
They just create a cultural pressure not to discuss salaries, rather than make it a company policy that can be proved to be illegal. I will point out though that this is not specifically a gendered thing in intention - they don't want ANYONE discussing salaries, whether that's two men, or a man and a woman. (Although, I have to concede that the *effect* disproportionately hurts women and trans men)
Load More Replies...My male coworker at my old job found out I was making less than the guys there, and without even telling me went to our supervisor and told him I work just as hard and do my job well, and that I deserved a raise. He was always such a good guy
In an effort to break the cycle of this nonsense, my state recently passed a law that employers may not ask prospective employees about their salary history. I can't imagine how many people were cheated on their compensation simply because they had been cheated at their last job.
I think I should be happy then that the place I work in, has fixed salaries for all different positions. All the assistants get the same, all the secretaries get the same etc. If there's a raise, everybody gets it etc.
I'm not actually for that. the company I used to work for did that, I was with them five years, was one of their best managers in the state. two of us carried the other five assholes who made the same salary we did. those five positions were a revolving door of s**t employees that stuck around for a few months before getting fired for rank incompetence. Damn straight I should be paid more than a FNG that can't be bothered to do the most basic aspects of their job. (like showing up.) Yes... wage equality should be a thing. yeah, wage inequality needs to go away, but it's also inequal if half the team carries the other half. Compensation should be based on the work they do, and that's it.
Load More Replies...In UK it's illegal to pay different wages for the same job, with few exemptions like time served in the same company or experience Generally two people with the same qualifications will get the same pay.
That’s really nice of him to help. Honestly I feel like a lot of men just wouldn’t bother.
I recently turned down a hourly paid customer service job because the wage was too low. I said the wage is too low to live in this expensive city. The male interviewer rolled his eyes and said let me guess you live alone ? Maybe you should get a husband.
It's A Step In The Right Direction
Teach. Men. To. Respect. Women. Not. Women. To. Stay. Away. From. Men!
Yeah this applies to gay MEN as well when we are threatened. So there's that
why yes, i would love to stay inside to play video games & only go outside when i absolutely must :D SUCH a good Idea!
Because of course violent crime only matters and is only bad if it is a man doing it to a woman.
So let's end oppression by oppressing people on the off chance they are bad. That's not how it works. How f*****g asinine.
Please, Go On...
You mean you haven't spent your entire life having to be careful what you said to the opposite sex? Tell me how that felt!
It shouldn't have take an entire movement to force men to learn respect.
My husband is really respectful towards women and has been bullied for not participating in "locker room talk" People ask me if I'm worried about my son in this MeToo environment. No, I'm hopeful he'll be treated better than his father.
Keys, Metal scales, ball point pens, long nails... so many things.... are used as wolverine's claws....
And makes sure you are not the last one left at work, and makes sure the car has enough gas, and sits close to other women on the bus, and calls other women who live alone, and never sleeps with the windows open and doors unlocked, and on and on...
All good ones. I worked a lot of graveyard shifts, and always made sure to turn off the automatic internal lights on my car as they draw attention to you - as well as the external remote unlock sound. And I'm still so surprised by people who don't always lock their car doors immediately after getting in - like you raised you? Don't you know it's dangerous out there.
Load More Replies...And is that too much to ask? If you can’t talk to us like a normal person then don’t talk at all
As a human, I have allways been carefull of what I say to anyone. Because words can hurt, and I do not want to hurt anyone.
I am still a minor, but since I got one I have been carrying a pocketknife everywhere I go. The public pool, my friends house, grocery shopping. This is our sad reality.
All men since the beginning of time have been careful how they talk around their Mothers, grandmother's, younger siblings, nieces & nephews, Aunts, Uncles elderly neighbours, police, judges etc etc. The list is endless. So the notion that it is now difficult to talk to adult woman is absolutely bonkers to me. The men saying this are capable of doing it they just don't want to to!
Horny By Shoulders
I don't think Andrew understands equality. Equality is women being allowed to walk around topless like men can without being arrested, touched, have derogatory remarks made about them or sexual advances etc.
On hot days you're welcome to wear comfortable clothes too.. I even support your longing to wear a skirt etc- without putting you in sexual context- Cause that's what's equality means.
So my basic humans right should be measured by how much of my shoulder or leg you can see?
If women have to cover up to avoid provoking men's uncontrollable lust, the problem doesn't lie with women!
Load More Replies...As the Qu'ran says, he will have molten lead poured in his eyes.
Load More Replies...I honestly don't even know what he was trying to say. How does showing a leg negate equality? Is there a paragraph missing, or am I just being dense?
You're not missing anything. From a technical standpoint, his post was missing an explanation for why showing skin goes against equality, since it's obvious to him but incomprehensible to virtually everyone else (I dress like a nun and I also think what he's saying is nonsense.) From a more critical standpoint, he's not missing a paragraph, he's missing some brain cells
Load More Replies...Why do men think women dress for their attention when we dress to make ourselves feel good or comfortable? I don't take issue with that flip flop showing off your ankle...so stop focusing on mine.
“How do women expect equality when all I can do is look at them like sex objects no matter what they wear” -also Andrew
They Don't
Let’s not forget that Bill Cosby was released today, because his sexual assault conviction was overturned. This is bullish!t
That was one of the worst headlines I've ever seen. Bullshit doesn't even begin to cover it. And don't forget that it was because of a stupid technicality.
Load More Replies...Ok just playing devil's advocate here, but Trump and Kavanaugh only got away with it because they're rich. Rich people are never held accountable for their actions. If the same thing happens to a poor guy he is basically screwed.
No. I was a victim of sexual assault. He was let out on bond, even after failing a lie detector. He committed armed robbery during that time. He was eventually convicted of both, with the testimony of 2 other victims(past CSCs, never prosecuted). His sentence for the armed robbery was longer. His CSC sentence ran concurrent. So, sexually assaulting me, repeatedly choking me, ripping my clothes off me as I ran away, stealing and wrecking my car were all freebies!
Load More Replies...And if a woman is accused of sexual assault, do you think they're put into office? (No)
A congresswoman, Katie Hill, had to resign because nude pictures of her were leaked. Yet we have Matt Gaetz basically being accused of being a pedophile and human tracking minors still living life. It’s disgusting
Load More Replies...well they potentially can. 2 examples where they didnt is not the same as every accusation
Well there's Judge Clarence Tomas who was also accused and became judge.
Load More Replies...I WONDER HOW MANY WOMAN VOTED FOR DONALD TRUMP OR DID ONLY JUST THE MEN VOTE
One thing that doesn't sit right with me is how most actual predators get to walk free (y'know what I mean. D Trump, Bil Cosby, Cardi B, Riley Reid, So many more) but innocent people who were falsely accused get their lifes ruined. It doesn't make any sense to me.
One thing that doesn’t sit right with me is how many innocent victims who tried to hold their attackers accountable had their lives ruined and watched as their attackers went on freely living their lives with no consequences. It doesn’t make any sense to me.
Load More Replies...Consent...
Well, this is not consent. Women are not sexual objects even when they want to be sexy or are having sex. Women are as sexual beings just as men are. Yet, society tend to discredit and ridicule even humiliate women sexuality while men's sexuality tends to be celebrated.
Do you mean like women wearing a thong bikini at the beach and then getting offended when men they are NOT attracted to approach them or attempt to speak to them? You do NOT get to pick and choose whose attentions are offensive when you are literally naked in public! WTH is wrong with you???
I Can't Even Watch The Notebook Without Cringing Now
Your parents probably think this way too. The above person used to think that way until they fixed it. Most women think this way. People aren’t jerks for this, they’re just indoctrinated.
Load More Replies...One line that turns up in too many books is "He stopped her mouth with a kiss" or "he shut her up with a kiss". Usually when the woman is angry or upset, so it's like "Well the little lady is having feelings, I'll just shut her up".
I remember being in kindergarten and telling the teacher that a boy kept pulling my braid (F U Otto). She said he liked me. I told her I didn´t. I hit him when he did it again and I was the one in trouble. Until my mum tore her a new one. And yes, I still remember his name.
Let's crowdfund remakes of those movies where, when he pulls her back in, she knees him in the balls and struts off to start a successful business.
or just reverse it. the woman stops the boy speaking with a kiss so he leaves his fiancée and marries her. for some reason in movies it's always ok for a woman to ditch there partner and seem liberated but when a man does it, he is the bad guy. we can fix that too
Load More Replies...Unfortunately I've seen this in many European movies as well...
Load More Replies...This is something I've talked about for a long time. The idea of being non-racist and non-sexist is a fallacy. All of us are being indoctrinated all the time by everything. Staying fair and objective is an active and ongoing process.
Yeh,i was bullied in middle school by a boy.my best friend said he liked me,my teacher said he liked me.the only person who did anything was my mum
Abortion Rights Is A Human Rights
Women are not dismissible incubators. I wonder if men would be okay with an unwanted growth in their organs for 9 months, causing weight gain, mood swings, nausea, and basically a complete loss of bodily autonomy as strangers constantly pat you like a class gerbil. I assume men would not be okay with that. Why they think women should be is beyond me. If you want to avoid unwanted pregnancies, get a vasectomy.
And then look after the child till they are eighteen at Least, paying all bills.
Load More Replies..."Save the life in the womb, then when they're born, deny basic health are, education and dignity, then let them starve to death, or make their lives miserable and kill them when they protest the conditions of the society under which they were born."
Exactly this. So called "Pro-life" has never been about life, they are Anti-choice, Pro-birth and Pro-control.
Load More Replies...I won't ever get an abortion because I believe a baby shouldn't be killed for being conceived, but I also believe women should have the right to have one if the want to. If you outlaw it, it will become more dangerous because women will still get abortions somehow and it could result in so many deaths. Let people have abortions if they want!
This is key. I would never insist that you had to have an abortion because of whatever my beliefs are, either. Make the best decisions for you, and it's no one else's business.
Load More Replies...Besides the total assault on women's rights that abortion restriction enforces, there is also no good legal argument for banning it. A fetus has no legal standing and is not the property of any person (even the mother). Personally I disagree with having abortions once the fetus becomes fully viable and can survive on its own but the rights of the woman should always be honored without exception for a possible future life.
When I was in high school, some local politician came to speak about a law he was supporting that would require minors under 18 to have parental consent to get an abortion, because teenage girls are too young to make that decision. I asked him if that also meant parents should be allowed to force an abortion on a 17 year-old who wants to have the baby. He stammered around a bit but never really answered.
How come when a pregnant woman dies in a car crash her dead fetus is always referred to as an unborn child and the other driver if at fault can be charged with TWO counts of vehicular manslaughter? What makes her fetus and unborn child but yours is not just because you WANT to kill it? How is it ONLY a child when you want to keep it but it's just a fetus when you don't and you cannot be held accountable? I'm NOT taking sides, I'm just pointing out the hypocrisy.
I’m very against abortion, but this argument definitely helped me see the other side. If you think of it like someone not being willing to donate an organ because it would take a long recovery time, even if it would save someone’s life, it still seems callous and cruel, but less like murder.
The Reason Why We Need To Stop Saying #notallmen
I once heard that the rate of attempted suicides among men is about the same as that among women. But men are more often successful. A woman would take sleeping pills or cut her pulse. You can still save them in time. A guy jumps in front of the train or out of the window and is dead. Those might be clichees too, but women think more and men are more impulsive / spontaneous.
In the U.S., men are much more likely to use a firearm in a suicide attempt than women are. There's also a surplus of guns. If you own a firearm, it's more likely to kill you or one of your loved ones than any sort of intruder. Yet, people keep buying them.
Load More Replies...In the current discussion of cheaper/free period products for (poor) women there's always men saying that men's problems are more important and why aren't we focusing on men's problems, and then they show their lack of understanding on periods and i'm just so pissed off. Often they also say that if women get free/cheaper period products, then men should get free/cheaper toilet paper. Women use more toilet paper than men! Argh!
Why say girls, not women? It's always men/male and then girls. Say WOMEN
I hate men who use men who are suffering to degrade women who are suffering. And I hate women who use women who are suffering to degrade men who are suffering. Kings, u can't pretend that men who do that aren't toxic, please call them out for their misogynistic behavior. Queens, u can't pretend that women who do that aren't toxic, please call them out for their misandrist behavior. There my speech is done.
It happens to men to yes, but it might not be all men but it's 98% of women
What' s the source that your pulling your statistics from?
Load More Replies...Molly makes a point. Woman should already know that it happens to men too, because of the basic empathy they understand.
Yeah, not all men, but not all bees are going to sting you, either, and not all sharks are going to bite you.
I Think We All Know Why
This. Once my colleague (female) said to me "I didn't know you were one of those",you know feminist type. Men don't like feminists. I told her even I don't like misogynist men. She later warned me that my "type" will make sure I will never marry. I told her I'll take my chances and I am not afraid of never getting married.
I have taught my son from the age he could understand about respecting women. In my house, he is being taught this, every single day. What scares the crap out of me is that he goes out into this world, and the entire world is saying otherwise. I hope with all my being that he stands strong and realizes what his core values should be, those being taught to him, that they resonate from home and not the ugly public at large. I can do only do so much, and he is a good boy (9) and he said this to me just the other day "girls have it harder than boys, don't they mom), he said this because he witnesses it already. I love men, and I gave him a fair and truthful answer, about how each man is his own and he can learn now, as a boy, to grow into a man who choses to respect all people, and that includes women. He assures me, he does and will. But I am still scared as hell what will happen when the world gets into his brain and potentially overrides these sound beliefs.
Thank you for raising your son to be a good person and to see girls and women as fellow human beings and not objects to use and abuse. I wish there were more people like you in the world!
Load More Replies...No marriage for me? No problem. I’ll adopt girls and raise them to be feminist women, and if by that time, most men are still acting like s**t, it will just prove that men think they are superior, and don’t have to change.
My husband was in Time magazine for the women's march, he is a hard core feminist. Had a co-worker ask what I would do if something happened to him, if I would ever consider finding someone else. Told her no, I would just adopt more dogs and birds. I am perfectly happy to live just me and my animals, not worth the energy to find someone else. I got lucky once and I can live with that being it.
Kind of like my Step-Father asking us to help him find a Girlfriend but threatening to Kill himself if the Date doesn't go well. He seriously expects us to put THAT kind of pressure on a woman? "Date my Dad & make him feel good or he'll kill himself." Seriously WTF?
Consent
Talked to a friend about this, she said that she sometimes consented because not consenting could have resulted in an issue, told what she described did not meet the legal definition of consent. I work in health care research, patients need to give informed consent and part of that consent being valid is that it is not coercive. Consent given under duress is not consent.
You’re talking about the club, as if you’re pretending that countless of males aren’t staring at women and girls (including young girls) in any and all places and trying to touch them in numerous occasions when that is what’s happening. You’re really senseless. Btw, at the club, who said the woman grinding on the man isn’t someone she asked consent from? Do you really not understand that women do ask consent first? (At the club it can be as quickly as a look and a smile from the woman that the male reciprocated); besides, the woman at the club is usually an attractive woman trying to do something consensually with a male she finds to be attractive; while when males try to ‘look or touch’ a woman, he usually does it without her consent and he is also usually a smelly unattractive creep. So F off.
Load More Replies...Truth
I agree, but honestly, if I had a daughter, I would still warn her about predatory behaviour and to avoid dangerous situations. Just because it's infuriating that something is necessary unfortunately doesn't mean that it isn't necessary
Instead tell men to stop victimizing women in general!
I'm not sure this is true to be honest. Men target women who are alone, vulnerable, distracted and have easily removed clothing. If we all did those things they would just have more targets to choose from. Men don't care about "fair game". Please keep teaching women safety and start teaching men respect.
The reality is that there are sick and evil men in the world, and always will be. As a woman I can’t control them, but I can choose to take steps to protect myself and encourage others to do the same.
Yikes. The term fair game, meaning someone or something that's a legitimate target for criticism derives from old laws governing the hunting of wildlife.
It is just about responsibility. You cannot expect to go around naked and not being sexualized. Action gives reaction. What you send out, you will attract. It's like irresponsibly waving your expensive watches and clothings and show off how rich you are. That attracts thieves (and golddiggers). THAT is why everyone should monitor their behavior. Men AND women.
If The Men Find Out We Can Shapeshift, They Are Going To Tell The Church
I hope you wear your tuxedo all night and stay shaved properly and wellscented- cause we don't like catfishing too
Also, those videos are like 10 years apart. What a weird way to announce to the world that you've never been with anyone long enough to know that people change.
What a weird way to announce you were stupid enough to think makeup was permanent...
How dare that asshole drag Jenna into his sexist opinions? Never mind that the screens are like 6 years apart and she is a lovely person. I hope she´s doing well and living her best "34 year old lady" life. I miss her videos.
It's not like we men are super sexy and good looking all the time either. I mean, have this dude ever seen a mirror first thing in the morning before shaving, showering and getting ready for work?
On Shaving
How it should work! I get lectured by a colleague that I ruin feminism because I like to wear dresses and doll up occassionally.
She's not a feminist, she's just part of another system of oppression that happens to not be in charge.
Load More Replies...Same with staying home with your kids or going to work. Support and respect both options. We just want the options and the support to make choices, okay?
i don't shave my arms or legs (often) but my pits are a shave weekly occasion.
We Are Starting It Early, Guys!
People who expect older siblings to look after younger ones PISS ME OFF!! And not just because elder siblings can be shitty, resentful caregivers, who sure didn't plan on being stuck with a rug rat so soon.
Intentionally planning to put adult responsibilities onto children is cruel. This appears to be targeted at female children more often, maybe because domestic responsibilities are more often seen as "women's work"
My daughter was first and never cared for baby dolls or babies at all. When her sibling was born she wanted nothing to do with them. And people kept saying how strange it was that she does not care for them like a doll. So strange that people think a girl, a toddler girl, should care for a baby. As they grew older they have become best friends. But what a strange expectation for a female child. People are crazy.
If you have kids to take care of your other kids, you’re not treating your own children right.
Have you ever noticed in school that when a boy acts up, a quiet girl is supposed to look after him since we apparently won't make things worse?
I was that quiet girl. I was the perfect quiet, bemused audience for their shenanigans.
Load More Replies...I was the oldest and was expected to look after and care for my younger siblings. I hated every second of it. Of course I am childfree by choice. We get along famously as adults, but children should not be expected to be the caretakers of other children. It never really works out very well and is only done for the convenience of lazy parents.
It is SO FRUSTRATING how SOME feminists will ALWAYS find a way to make it all about them! Like this is literally sexism AGAINST MEN NOT WOMEN and you SOMEHOW still make it about women!
That *is* meaning harm. He is signing a hypothetical daughter up for forced labor and unrealistic expectations of responsibility at a young age. That's abuse. Normal does not mean without harm. The norms in our society harm woman, BIPOC, LBGTQA+ etc. Stop assigning good intentions to people who are showing you they don't gaf about the feelings or well being of others. That's harmful. Pretending it isn't helps the oppressor continue to do it with impunity. If they really don't mean harm, when pointed out they'll change their minds. If they don't, well...
Because Apparently Only Old White Men Count
I think some know it and are absolutely terrified that everyone else will figure it out.
Load More Replies...And there you have it. Three with so many downvotes they aren't showing. Because you disagree.
Straight Boomer White man here thinks you are incompetent and unqualified for the office you hold and are also out of touch with reality. We may be a minority but apparently, we are the wrong minority because you prefer to condemn and dismiss us. Maybe we need to renounce our citizenship, move to Panama then attempt to cross the US/Mexican border in order to get any respect and fair treatment...!
Ladies, When Was The Last Time You Went On A Killing Spree Cos You Were Feeling A Bit Emotional?
And just the whole idea that "emotional" = "bad." It doesn't. "Emotional" = "human."
Emma Watson once said she is sad when she hears that men don't cry. Crying isn't girly, it isn't bad. It makes us human. I love this girl, she is soooo right!
Load More Replies...It's not only anger, men get offended way more easily than women, men take losing more seriously than women etc.
Exactly! And not only does it bother them more but they react to it stronger. I work in a PURELY male dominated industry and my employees are constantly remarking about me being cool headed or robotic. That’s because I’m a woman and they aren’t used to people not being emotional. They’re used to their easily upset coworkers.
Load More Replies...I especially love this in combination with the narrative that men cannot control their sexual urges. Even monkeys can control their sexual urges, but, apparentky,, most men can't. It amazes me that we allow them to operate heavy machinery, if they are so easily distracted.
When was the last time a woman killed a man because he turned down a date.
Men: "Women are overly emotional." -- Women: *broadly gestures at all of human history*
People always say I'm emotional and I just think, "Well at least my emotion range includes more than anger and smugness"
We are just as emotional as women, we are just not allowed to express emotion (other than anger or happiness) or else we are branded "weak".
F**ked Up
Until the thrill diminishes and he needs to take more and more extreme actions to achieve it. The guy’s a budding psycho.
He's already a psycho. His symptoms are what's escalating.
Load More Replies...Thats....not cool. Thats just effed up, and maybe a bit beyond. Isnt that a trait of a predator? The thrill of chasing frightend prey...
I have never called anyone this, but he is a bastard
I saw that tweet! He said something along the lines of it making him feel good to be noticed and not just another face. He also urged other guys to do it.
When A Man Tells Me He's Looking For A 'Real Woman' I Scurry Away Because I'm Actually Three Owls In A Raincoat And He Mustn't Find Out
Ikr, just check out any comment section on BP about women's rights. It's like a misogyny textbook.
Can't wait to get to the end of the post and all the comments on "again a post about men bad, women good", "feminists go to far", and"that's not useful", and "I am not like this"...
Load More Replies...I’ve never seen a woman shoot up a place because she couldn’t get a boyfriend either
Is it possible that this man has that perspective because he's never met a feminist that was not angry at that moment? And, that in all of those cases, the common factor was feminists dealing with...that man? Could there maybe be a correlation here that you're missing, That Man?
Btw we feminists are angry all the time because of how unequal everything is, but not nearly as angry as any man as at a feminist
Experiencing Both Sides Of The Gender Divide As A Professional
Do men actually think women can make this much crap up? Do they think we lie about what we go through to get more attention?
I get told all the time that women love "playing the victim" or we are "just whining." You can even see it in the comments here.
Load More Replies...I've worked with Aussie men over the years, so... no.
Load More Replies...Many up votes. A much better cautionary tale than Jenner lamenting a learning curve for applying makeup. Much respect, sister.
Sorry i do not agree. They were getting good income when met the conventional male type and lost income when they couldn't meet neither male nor female types. Has nothing to do with this thread.
No, I think you just don't understand what the person was saying. She said, as a female. She never said as someone presenting as non-binary or intersex.
Load More Replies...You think being infertile is something flawed about being a woman? Please stop and think about what you're suggesting, and how damaging that is.
Load More Replies...And We Prefer Your Opinions About Us Kept To Yourselves Too!
You can have your preferences—makeup/no makeup, long hair/short hair, athletic/curvy, etc.—and you can talk about it to your friends, too. You can even decide to only pursue romantic interests that fit your preferences. What you should really stop doing is loudly broadcasting to all womankind how they should mold themselves to what you like.
And yet, without make up it's "You look tired" "are you sick?" "are you okay?". SO many men think "no make up" is still TV levels of make up.
You prefer us without makeup? So what? Not in any obligation to serve your opinion
In my experience, men prefer us in natural make-up that doesn't look like make-up. Years ago, I went to a multi-level marketing "party". They did make-up make-overs with their products. I picked neutral colors, and my BF at the time greeted me later with "see, you look better without makeup"
They never actually prefer women without makeup either, they just don’t know what makeup looks like.
I've found most men don't know what women look like without makeup. They're thinking of over-the-top thick makeup, and don't realize that a "natural" look can actually be a full face of make up.
As a woman who doesn’t wear makeup, the odds that this man is not full of s**t are…really not high.
And then we don't wear makeup and the men start talking about how much better we look with it!
While It Is True That Girls’ Brains Typically Develop A Little Faster Than Boys’ Brains, That Doesn’t Excuse A Lack Of Discipline For Boys
Even if there is a biological background...just try harder..Evolution works- we all don't want to live in caves anymore- so keep pushing it
It's even sadder if it's evolution imo, that means we might have actually had to EVOLVE to deal with it. (Note that I said, "might", I am well aware that evolution takes an extraordinarily long time)
Load More Replies...Even as a man I'm disgusted by how many man-boys there are out there.
Man, this is the first one I came across that is a new thought for me. Girls have to sit still and be quite while boys get to run around. Then you have the house chores that start at the age of 4. I believe in starting house chores early, but I am always shocked at how many men can't cook or do laundry. Like dude, you can't live alone or take care of yourself, pretty embarrassing that children are better able to live alone than grown men.
Girls are held accountable less than boys, from childhood, all the way to lesser jail sentences as adults (not always but most of the time). LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE AT THE BACK!
Oh Well
OMG, I find that ALL the time on reddit, mainly with the stereotype of men gaming and girls not at all (it angers me so much as I am a girl who enjoys computer games a LOT) and men vs girls after masturbation, which is so disgusting for me. The annoying thing is, that they often get SO much upvotes >:(
It’s easy for an incel to show his hatred behind a keyboard. It’s the only place he’s safe
Load More Replies...I Agree
Problem is, as with any social construct, sexism has multiple levels. You have "innocent" or mimetic sexism (literally just doing what everyone else does with no beliefs or understanding involved; seen almost exclusively in small children), passive sexism (weakly-held beliefs at best, mostly just doing it because they either don't know there's an alternative or haven't given it much thought; many fall into this category), active sexism (strongly-held beliefs, resistant to alternative viewpoints, very prone to cognitive dissonance), and extremist sexism (striving to enforce and enhance sexist attitudes and beliefs in others as well as holding strong sexist beliefs).
And society will no improve while we allow unexamined sexism, racism etc to be the norm. We aren't saying execute all sexists, we are saying 'if you are sexist, you should not feel comfortable that you are the norm'
Load More Replies...Sayin this beforehand: Feminists/sane people: Want equity for all genders Sexist: Don't want equity or equality for all genders (Whichever gender you are from does not matter, anyone can be sexist or sane)
I think this might be an over simplification of feminism. Personally, if I had to label myself, I would say I'm an egalitarian rather than a feminist, but that does not make me sexist and in fact many of my views align with feminism.
OR!!, Or we can stop labeling people into groups that YOUR personal bias has put them in.
Yeah, I bet you're a white guy. I'm sure all the white guys who have all the power in the US totes got there on merit.
Load More Replies...My Nana Is Divorced And Good For Her
It doesn't work as well in the opposite direction. When my former MIL tried to serve her son (my husband at the time) I'd be like, "He has legs, he can do it himself." Didn't go over well.
My MIL kept taunting my husband for "acting like a woman" when he, for example, washed dishes. It rankled me but in the beginning I let it slide. Finally once, my husband spilled something on the floor and, as he was cleaning it up, my MIL told me I should do it because "my poor son's become a woman". I finally snapped and told her something along the same lines as you. It didn't go down well, as expected, but on the bright side, it's been three years and she has neither spoken to me nor set foot in my home since.
Load More Replies...Had an older family friend tell me not to start anything alone I didn't want to finish alone. Meaning, if I started making dinner every single night by myself, I can bet he will expect it for the entire marriage. The same could be said for what other "chores" you do around the house. She wasn't wrong either.
My grandparents were very accomplished professionals. I never saw my grandfathers treating my grandmothers as anything but equals. They married in the 50s and were married until both of my grandfathers passed away. Both sets of grandparents had partnerships. Neither grandmother was in the dark or left unprepared when my grandfathers passed away. I've expected nothing less in my own life yet haven't found it. I'm twice divorced but it floors me that both exes were clueless about things when I left. They were neither interested in discussing finances, etc. I controlled it all, but not for lack of effort on my part. First ex is remarried to a completely controlling woman...guess that's what he needs. Second was taken for everything he had and his credit ruined by his next wife because she opened up dozens of credit cards, charged them up and then never paid. She took off when s**t started hitting the fan.
The grandfathers of people who say that also used to own black people as property. We don't do that anymore, either
My mother was visiting and staying at our home for a week. She made herself a sandwich. My husband was just sitting there watching her. She asked him " Do you want a sandwich?" He said "Of course." She said "Then I'll leave everything out so you can make yourself one." Then she picked up her sandwich and walked away. He was speechless. Go Mom!
Never start doing his laundry or you will be doing it forever. I never want to wash another shitty pair of underwear again.
I've done this with my boys when certain members of our family have behaved in sexist ways.
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Don't forget the "what a waste", but it's like "sorry dude, even if she liked men, she still wouldn't be dating you"
I remember a professional volleyball player I knew presenting us his boyfriend and two of the girls in the company saying simultneously "oh, what a waste!" Without missing a bit, he said: "oh, honey, believe me, he doesn't waste ANY of me!" The thing that really for me thinking, though, was that both women looked utterly shocked, like his response was the most explicit thing they ever heard, when he pretty much had repeated what they told him.
Load More Replies...maybe that would make for a nice tv show. Team A : the 5 most butch lesbian women of the town. Team B : the 5 most queer gay guys of the village!. They both got a friday and saturday night to hook up with a partner of the opposite sex. which city/village will get the 5 star rating!!
Yes! And the teams could be led (or show hosted) by Sara Ramirez (Grey's Anatomy, Madam Secretary) m30uihlk2qm11.jpg
And Jonathan Van Ness (Queer Eye) b277e23a67...e44982.jpg
I get the same thing as a gay man. "You've just never had the right woman." You are absolutely correct because there is no "right woman" for me.
@Bryan Wilson Did you know that till same sex marriage became legal, 100% of divorces were from straight marriages.
Bryan Wilson, Pleeeaasseee. bitch I have been in a fulfilling relationship with my girlfriend for five years now and we got engaged last month. Not to mention my friend who has been married in a gay relationship for 18 years (older than me but still really nice). So take that crap, OUTSIDE.
It's really easy to get a man, but not easy to find the right one. Trying to find the right person for you is the same difficulty no matter your sexuality, however finding someone not right for you is easiest for straight people. That's what I think anyways
Wait that is a real thing that people actually say (1st sentence, quote)? That is just gross ick
Get A Divorce
Most important thing to teach your daughter..you're fantastic all by yourself and life offers many ways and crossroads to get lucky every relationship should be seen as an additional choice So don't let your selfesteem depending on bad choices
My mom to me when I was about 11: "You don't need a boyfriend to be a person". Me after 30 years of marriage: "Still don't need a man to be a person".
Load More Replies...It's normal to complain about your partner with your friends but it's the way it's done that matters. I know my hubby complains about me at times but I also know he speaks very highly of me too. Same goes for me. It's all about context.
There will always be one little thing about your partner or spouse because they are a separate, complete human being with their own faults and foibles. And so are you. If I had a dollar for every time my hubby utterly fails to put his socks IN the laundry basket instead of just next to it, I could take us both to Disney World next year! If he had a dollar for every time I passive-aggressively maintain eye contact with him while picking up said socks, he could take us back again in 2023. But he does the dishwasher and the bins, and gives me cuddles after a long day, and compliments my cooking (which I love to do for him anyway because giving him food makes both of us happy). Socks will likely always be our little niggle, but they're massively outweighed by everything else. (His mother, on the other hand, is a ball and chain around BOTH our ankles, but that's a different cliche)
Load More Replies...I annoy my wife sometimes, she annoys me. We argue when we help each other because neither of us are great at communicating and we're both stubborn and want to take the lead, but when it works...wow, it works. Relationships aren't always easy, but as this person says, if you're constantly moaning about your partner, just move on and make both your lives better.
I have had so many people tell me your spouse does not need to be your best friend. Maybe for some that is true, but for me I like the mutual respect, understanding and trust you get by being best friends and best friends would never put each other down only build each other up.
It stuns me that people talk this way about their spouse. Men and women do it. HOw terribly sad that you are in a competitive and angry relationship with the person whom you should be in partnership with against the forces of this world.
I have no clue why you were down voted. You make perfect sense and I 100% agree. Here is an up vote.
Load More Replies...I used to be a field engineer for a computer company-- was the only woman. I got so tired of the men constantly whining about their wives- did not like their cooking, they spent too much money, blah, blah, blah. And, half the time after the complaints, they would hit on me. Really?
THIS!!!!! I don't get this either. I mean if you don't want to be married then don't be married. I absolutely love my hubby, he is the moon/stars/all of it for me. I never talk down to him or talk about him badly in public. It may seem weird to people but I really do love being with him everyday. That's what a relationship is supposed to be!!!
So Close To Getting The Point
Just the 1st and 4th words. “That’s a*****t. Everyone I know has been assaulted”
Load More Replies...There was this statistic that 1 in 3 women have experienced sexual abuse and my male friend was going off saying how it had to be bullshit because he knew a ton of women and none of them had been sexually abused. I said "You know me any my sister. We were both raped when we were kids. I don't think the statistic is wrong, I think that we just don't casually mention the most traumatizing experiences we have had when we come over for BBQ."
We almost have to be. It's almost self defense. Men defend and protect ONLY other men, no matter how horrible.
Load More Replies...Men don’t even get arrested when they actually rape women. For sure no one is getting arrested for catcalling. Grow up.
Load More Replies...Nanette
Just reposted this on my local community’s “no wokes” FB group (which I joined to be open to opinions beyond my own social media echo chamber). Sometimes I like to just throw things like this in there and see what happens.
Don't let us hanging, tell us what happened?
Load More Replies...No, because that one's an orangutan-cheeto-boris johnson hybrid.
Load More Replies...Well i am as drunk AF and posting here a month after anyone else so go to town.
Sign Checks Out
We're clearly soldiers in petticoats And dauntless crusaders for women's votes Though we adore men individually We agree that as a group they're rather stupid
This one is brilliant! It really shows how even though men think that women are equal they are still just as disadvantaged.
tch.Not even a little ankle action. OK! Message received. no advances. gotcha. See, it's easy to send the right message. I went to the mall in my days-old jeans and messy t-shirt on a mission for paint and spares, total catastrophe, stank and looked like a hobo (WFH + building project) Girl didn't even look up. A week later I went dressed, shampoo'ed, styled, shaved and cologned. Flashed the black-credit card (not the worn, plain-Jim savings account for household expenses, like last time) Got a wink FROM THE SAME GIRL IN THE SAME SHOP. What YOU WEAR, SENDS SIGNALS!!! what you wear does as well. get it? Got it? Good.
Take ur hate away from here. You are just making yourself look silly.
Load More Replies...They are not trivialising what has already been achieved, they are making a point about what has not been achieved since, there is still a long way to go for total equality. And just because women in some countries have more opportunities than they did 100 years ago does not mean we should just roll over and be happy with what we have.
Load More Replies...So Unfair
And yet car insurance is cheaper for women....there's a difference between a stereotype and what is actual.
No, generalisations about WOMEN are called out, but generalisations about MEN aren't. Grow up and stop pretending it is the other way around.
America Hates Women
This American YouTuber lost it when she came to New Zealand, because when she had kids in the US, she lost her career and had to start over. Then she found out that we get maternity leave and our prime minister used it during her first term, and it really hit this woman that whatever problems we have in this department, the US is next-level horrible about it. It really sucks and I hope the US improves that.
BUT WE MIGHT LOSE CORPORATE PROFITS!!!! And then we'd be on the slippery slope to paying living wages to all workers and recognizing healthcare as a human right and providing higher education affordably and not using law enforcement to persecute minorities
Load More Replies...Okay so here is the proudest moment of my employment. We were in a staff meeting and were told that we hired a woman for the front office and that she was very obviously pregnant and that shortly after starting the job, she would need to go onto maternity leave. We were all told that her pregnancy could not, and should not be a factor when hiring her. 5 years later she is one of the best employees we have and she told me that the day of the interview she was crying hysterically because none of her interview clothes fit and she thought since she was so pregnant she was just wasting her time cause we wouldn't hire her. I was proud of our office then, and I am incredibly proud of her now.
Not true. I have been asked in the netherlands in a job interview if i had a partner and wanted to have children. Its not usa only
Load More Replies...True. But a healthy society should help people (that want to) become parents without having the fear of losing job. And in some cases women are ostracized to become mothers and continue to have a job. Without the right amount of children a society can't continue to work properly. So yes, it's a choice and so have to be made responsibly, but shouldn't be seen with shame
Load More Replies...to be fair... children do represent a very real, sometimes very dramatic change in not only your personal life, but possibly your professional life. However -- that said, the pentalties for said changes I imagine grossly outweigh them. I've never been beyond the gruntwork tier (yet), but I've also worked with women who got pregnant and became completely useless at their jobs. If there was no other position for them we simply had to replace them -- if your job can't use you, it cant use you. My shoulder's right buggered and I know that if I get a job with lots of manual labor (lots of lifting or repetitive motions) I wont be able to do it.... I wont be working there long. Again, though, This is what I've seen on the bottom rungs of the ladder. I'll be totally honest I've almost never seen what a lot of people complain about (the various *isms, aside from the general public -- people truly *love* shitting on the common worker); It's always been fair where I worked.
So men should be grilled on if they plan to reproduce, as it will affect their availability.
Load More Replies...Being Feminine Is Not A Weakness
Sometimes I want to dress up like a Victorian princess and sometimes I want to dress up like a pirate, and both times I want a weapon to be part of the ensemble. The outfit doesn't say anything about the personality.
Delores Umbridge was a horrible monster but she was a boss bitch in pink!
Oh hell ma'am you'd better be both with extra sassy on top. I have a stay-at-home lifestyle that includes a gaming addition, beer and backyard-mechanics you brainy, sexy-ass better be maintaining...
Our PE teacher is also like this. He makes all the boys do the hard, pulling and pushing equipment type of work, and the girls have to look pretty. Thats about it.
I've Noticed
Don't know which bro's use that code. But certainly not me and my bro's. And not any other bro that I know of.
If I'd ever cheat on my girlfriend my friends would rat me out the second the knew. And that's how friendships should work - staying true to your morals and not encouraging double standards.
Load More Replies...Makeup
Also if a man thinks that my eyelids are golden and my lips are solid red, I don't think that this is my fault.
No no no, I naturally have a black strip on my eyes /s
Load More Replies...hey at least when i get a woman without makeup i still get a whole woman and not just a head and legs (digestion is important)
Yes They Can Be
Every time u think a guy is a friend they come on to you. Had a guy friend all of a sudden tell me one day that the track pants i was wearing really turned him off. We had gone to the mall and were both wearing them. he went on and on and on about how awful they were. All I wanted was to go to the f*****g mall in the middle of winter to kill time with my friend.
So. I have a friend. Call him A. He just happens to be male. I just happen to be female. When he first became my friend, I had just hit puberty and my family was going overboard with the whole "ooh they like each other" stuff. Everything from movie scenes to love songs. I was so, so scared to tell my parents he was my friend because I didn't want to deal with my family teasing me about someone who makes me feel valued and whole.
The INSTANT the human race no longer requires the BIOLOGICAL IMPERATIVE to procreate, on THAT DAY, we can all be platonic friends. People will openly compliment you on your level of attractiveness and you will gently reciprocate with a polite thank you! PS, men are firm friends with women they do not find sexually attractive more often that your wildest imagination can handle.
"how can I be a woman hater if I do the bare minimum? I deserve a standing ovation and a monument."
“You’re A Pretty Girl And Therefore Can’t Be Smart”
Men get the same kind of trouble. Either you're a scrawny little nerd with a million IQ who can't get a girlfriend or you're a ripped up jock who parasitizes nerds in an effort to lie about being smart.
Mira, Mira Mira, I wrote my thesis at Harvard too. So what? That's like saying "I shopped at Woolworths on Sunday"
Use The Freaking Word
I'm a feminist I'm ugly I hate Football and Rugby I don't shave so I'm fuzzy I wear glasses and I'm chubby Although lots of us are vegans And boys, they are the meanest We want to cut off their penises Maybe ship them to Sweden I fight for women's rights Though fighting I don't do any I wear pants instead of panties Because we're secretly trannies Guys are jerks, if you disagree then you are mansplaining We are always right, and always angry
Let's Hope This Trend Just Keeps Continuing On Through Future Generations
@Soyexfox "Rediciless", "Terrifide"? Just a heads up, maybe don't litter comment sections with rubbish like this if you don't support a feminism thread? I don't believe that your comment was meaningful in any way to any user. You should probably reflect on why you have such a problem with some women, and feel the need to borderline vent into a feminist post. Seems a little off, don't you think? I can't say that some women won't make false accusations, but if your brother has had so many experiences with women accusing him of rape, maybe you need to stop and think that your brother could be a rapist.
We Have To Close This Gap
Yep, this makes sense. Men dont have women parts, so they have to learn what women like. Add that to most women needing more time to reach that magical moment means low O rates. This is just my personal observations but men are like bottle rockets.Light the fuse, "fweeeeeeeeeeeeep ...POW" and their done. Women are like diesel engines. They need to be preheated, brought up to proper operating temp, and there can be a little turbo lag, but when everything is done right, they go all day and pull a house off the foundation. So a little advice...Women, TELL your partner whats working, what isnt and guide them. Men, LISTEN to your partner. They arent trying to put you down if they offer some guidance in what they like and dont like. Listen and remember. Everyone will be happier if yall do.
Women need 11 minutes after penetration to orgasm on average and men 4 minutes. Women also need more emotional stimulation than men, who are more sensitive to physical stimulation. Knowing such things in combination with patience and anatomical knowledge helps a lot in satisfying the partner.
Even when masturbating I dont orgasm 95%. There is a diff between ejaculating and orgasming. That said I agree that communication is key. The best sex iv had as been with women who would talk with me before, during, and after. Especially if we were able to laugh as well.
Yes and no. Communication is so, so, SO key to achieving sexual pleasure for ALL parties. Unfortunately, it seems like a lot of times in heterosexual hookups that communication is lacking (based on casual observations of my friends and their relationships, nothing more). Lesbian hookups I'd expect to end up more frequently in orgasm because, well, both parties are (typically) female and understand the anatomy involved. But my question is: Is a lack of communication in expressing sexual wants and needs, and also the desire to fulfill a partner, a direct consequence of sexism? Personally I'm inclined to think so because of how women are shamed, bullied, and otherwise put down for having any kind of confidence in their sexuality or desire to explore it
P0rn sells a misleading story, and it's never addressed that it's a *fiction* - I believe age appropriate sex education should include a full discussion on p0rnography. Because boys will find it, and need to told about it *correctly*. And stress the importance of consent in the adult film industry - she is ACTING because that's her JOB. Stop setting up unrealistic expectations that mean men end up *punishing* women for not thrashing around like an excited dolphin the way they saw it on the small screen.
Load More Replies...Expressing Any Emotion Is Hysteria If You're A Woman
My Teacher Told Us That Our First Period Would Only Be Like A Drop Or Two Of Blood And Gave Us Pantie Liners For When It Happens. That Was A Big Fat Lie
This level of education hurts me. How can it be OK to not tell kids the TRUE facts of life?
I went to a Catholic boarding school.I am a recovering Catholic.LOL
Misogyny Ruins Everything
Call Them Out
Also, I genuinely don’t know what “ugly” is supposed to mean here, or why it’s so imperative to tell one’s friends that they are.
I think the expectation of telling one's friends that they're ugly comes from men trying to pit women against other women. It's like there's supposed to be a competition among women to find out who is the best, to establish the pecking order. Really, women should pull each other up, not break each other down.
Load More Replies...And what is ugly ? Women with no make up. Wearing comfy clothes. Not dolled up to what men consider attractive. Women ARE NOT UGLY. That is just some negative bullshit brought about by men .
this makes no sense. There are 3 separate, unrelated points here. meh not touching this one.
Noone is ugly. Everyone is beautiful in their own way (except for racists, MAPs, sex offenders, anti-LGBTQ+ people, rapists, etc)
The Governor Will Send Us All Back To Phase One If Y’all Keep Screwing Around
Touch me in a way I don't like, and I touch you in a way you won't like -- such as a knee to the groin or an elbow to the face.
Seriously, people do that? I once got pushed against a woman's butt with my hand on the subway and felt a lot more ashamed than she thought I should. She was cool, I was in puberty, translates to not cool at all, and not calm ... touched a grown woman's ass on accident, I thought she was gonna slap me or so ... she just laughed. I could see her face change from anger to amusement when she turned around, which, when I think of it, tells a different story about what she might have expected to see (a terrifyed 14yo thinking he'd done a serious crime...).
A watch a video where a woman wore a dress with sensors to track how many times men touched her in an hour at a club. Overwhelming amount.
Just imagine how men would react if we did that to them
Fine, i'll slam my bear-claw hand down on your shoulder like a dude and cripple your collar bone for life because i have asked 5 times to please take your drink and get away from the bar. Seriously ladies, a firm, flat, intentional hand slightly harder than gentle is universal code for the most polite way to send the "excuse me please, now" message in a club with a crowded bar and music you can't even scream over. guys do the same to each other, total strangers mind you, but on the "lats". Take note next time. We don't do it on the "lats" on you because of the proximity to boobs, THINK!!!. the middle-lower of you back is literally the furtherest from any risk-locations on your entire body. furtherest away from shoulders, lips (top or bottom), boobs, belly button, shoulders face ears, hands, arms... This is UNIVERSAL ETIQUETTE: GET USED TO IT.
WOW BECAUSE TOUCHING A WOMANS BACK IS SO OFFENCIVE THE BACK IS THE NEW VAGINA
Lower back. Which usually referts to their butt without saying the actual word "butt".
Load More Replies...I've Been Asking Myself This
The problem is man child AND the fact that people get maried way too quickly and don't live together before. I've been with my bf for almost 10 years now and we live together for 9 years. Living together and dating are 2 really different things. How can you be sure you won't live with a "pig" / in a "pigsty" or a complete neat freak if you only see him/her on his/her "best behaviour". Some day to day challenges can put stress on a relationship. For example my bf was really a laid back relaxed guy and i use to be a neat/control freak wich we couldn't possibily know before we got to live together and we both learn to meet halfway. The solutions are 1) don't marry an adult child : live together before marying and adress the red flags if there are, and if he/she doesn't change LEAVE and 2) don't raise adult children, make them learn basic "household knowledge" and teach them respect for the person who does thing they haven't learn
I agree here. Wife now works back at the office. I do WFH (which pays 7x her salary, go figure). For 20 years now i have cooked, cleaned, washed clothing , done floors, fixed things, invented solutions for the home, made stuff, done groceries... Just after we moved in together,y wife quit cooking and stuck to baking because I make tastier food. I can't stand baking, so win-win. I do it because it needs doing. It doesn't matter who does it, just bloody do it.
Load More Replies...Imagine wanting to marry a useless husk of a man like that. Gross.
Men expect this. i have dated men and stayed at their place on the weekends and they expect me to clean their apts for them. Are shocked when i do not happily start doing their laundry or vacuuming because they have had girlfriends in the past do this. i have my own apt to clean. When has a women ever had a man spend the weekend and expected the man to clean her apt. yet men do this all the time.
My husband did this to me. He finished work hours before me and sat down to wait for me to come home from my full time job. It was just one factor in why I divorced him.
Probablem seems to be with your husband, I cook, clean, do the dishes, laundry, watch the kids, work part time, and do the DIY. My wife works long hours, does decorating jobs in the house, and other stuff. We try to make sure we're both busy together so we can both enjoy relaxing together
Good for you, but if you look beyond your own front door then there are still a lot of men who do very little in the home. And families still bringing up children and not making the boys do their share.
Load More Replies...THE PROBLEM IS MAM AND DAD BOTH GO OUT TO WORK KIDS GET NEGLECTED THERE FOR BEGINS TO HAVE MENTAL PROBLEMS LIKE A.D.D AND THEN THE MAN IS MEANT TO COME HOME AND COOK AND CLEAN, NO ITS NOT THE WOMANS JOB NEVER HAS BEEN BUT ITS NOT THE MANS JOB EITHER. IF ONE COOKS THE OTHER CLEANS, WHY DONT WOMEN WANT EQUALLITY FOR ALL,
ADD is not a "mental problem". It is a functional brain characteristic. It is not caused by neglect. Both parties are meant to cook, clean, home maintenance, and anything else that needs doing.
Load More Replies...Hey, Fierce And Fabulous Fixer-Uppers!
Just added red nailpaint in the shoppingcart for my flipfingers only
Adcertising is perverted. "Ladies, you're all beautiful, blablabla, treat yourself with [whatever pointless product aims at increasing whatever pointless property by whatever pointless principle]" - + also, companies who act like hiring a few fat models wipes out all other ethical worries tied with them. Oh, you mowed down one acre of rainforest every day for 20 years? Hey, all forgiven, for you have a fat model in your ads... I sometimes enjoy being male - no one gives an f if I'm ugly and look like being puked out of something no one wants to know each morning.
beauty companies be like *one fat woman* *one black woman* *one ginger woman* *army of Marilyn Monroe clones*
Load More Replies...What's wrong with having thighs? Without them there's just bones. Bones don't cushion from mobsters with baseball bats.
When Was The Last Time Decisions About A Woman's Well-Being Were Made By Women?
There's only one man for me to rock the bow tie, all others are posers... Bill Nye, my favorite science guy
Load More Replies...What you talking about? No one kills babies. nowhere is that even legal, but there are societies that, kind of, turn a blind eye to people killing their female babies, for girls are considered being worth less than boys. Which is an atrocity that could be ended, were there access to safe birth control - or, to begin with, no effed up beliefs that support crimes of that kind - none is worth less, more, different.
Load More Replies...You Can't Stop Us.
Men have been making DNS (Do not shag), DND (do not date) and LB lists for yearrrrrrrs. PS you are all on a list.
Ok, what are the requirements for being on those lists? Don't be over 115 pounds and anything smaller than a C cup?
Load More Replies...This Is, And Has Always Been, A Big Problem
To be frank i don't quite understand, we have blood trouble in my family so my doctor prescribed me a pill effective and that doesn't have the side effect of blot cloth. I think it's probably that the doctors don't prescribe these as much. There are other side effects like migrains but since i had some since i was a kid it doesn't make such a difference...
It’s not just blood clots. It’s cycle changes, mood changes, vaginal changes, appetite changes, nutrients get depleted etc.
Load More Replies...To much impact on the body, up to the point of producing milk and developing breasts. Women have less risk in taking hormone based birth control. Physical barriers (Condoms) are currently the best, non permanent way for men to prevent pregnancy
Load More Replies...I am not sure about this. I had to take some medications in my life, unrelated to gender, and most of them have horrible, even deadly side-effects. I feel like science is not there yet. The last medication I got was for allergy I have and when I saw that list of side-effects, and it was horrific, I just decided not to. Also migraine meds, awful! My mom died from consequences of stupid knee replacement surgery gone wrong! There is really a small number of medications and procedures that can't in some way kill you. Regardless of what your gender is.
Few medications are studied in women because it's "too complicated".
Load More Replies...Overall women also suffer from more anxiety and depression. Turns out there is actually a very heavy link between hormonal BC and anxiety/depression - something about maybe our bodies werent really meant to have our hormone levels fuckex with. 🤷♀️ My hubs is progressive enough to go get snipped and not risk me any further. More should.
Load More Replies...Well some women can’t afford an abortion or it has been outlawed in their area.
Load More Replies...It Really Is...
Sexual violence is a thing. I live in the rape-capital country of the world. Most of the rapists are from single parent families (mother-only). WHAT are these mothers teaching these boys?
Notging. No one teaches boys in America respect for others.
Load More Replies...True, but ... but only calling out flaws in one's own facour, which often is done, is neither honest nor helpful. And also, while we all are part of a statistic, no single person is like the average person ... if you're not the statistic, don't feel hurt if it states one of the groups you belong to acts more violent on average or something ... you're not the average, but can be better or worse than it.
Load More Replies...Srsly
According to feminism, that sense is not false at all. It's so real in fact, there's an entire movement dedicated to fighting it, you know, unless it truly is false.
Also Applies To The Show Sherlock
Come on cancel culture, please don't go after Rick and Morty! Let us at least have one funny show left. You can have Married With Children. That one wasn't even funny in the 90's. (and South Park hasn't been funny anymore for over 10 seasons, so maybe take them too)
Cancel culture is not 'going after' anything. People talk about it as if it's some kind of organised movement. It's not, it's literally people on Twitter expressing opinions. And Rick and Morty f*cking blows.
Load More Replies...Who Else Can Relate To This?
I watch stuff that was made in the early 2000s and I'm always thinking 'why is everyone white?'. The sad thing is, being a white person who grew up in a very predominantly white part of the UK, the thought never used to occur to me. It even happens with modern stuff, things that are set where there would reasonably be quite a few non-white people around, but yet all the lead characters are white and if there are any non-white people they are shoved in the background.
Simple reason: Viewing demographics. If you audience is 80% white, which, given television and the demographics, it was, you cater to the vast majority of your audience. India is literally 99.99% indian-specific content. 1.4 BILLION Potential viewers. 99.9% Indian, are you going to launch a hispanic-casted show there? Same with music. With the emergence of the black middle-class in the 90's in the USA, hip-hop, rap and R&B arrived. You market to your demographic's buying-power.Simple economics. Selling to the wrong market is the single biggest reason an idea fails, be it music, TV, merch, homes, cars, shoes, etc... If you build it for THEM, they will come. "Spaza" stores in RSA make more money overall with cheap low cost food and clothing than ALL OF THE NAME BRANDS COMBINED... because they are selling to a market that can afford and want the products
Load More Replies...I've been watching the '60's series, "Wild Wild West." Holy. Cow. And I thought the Will Smith remake was sexist!
Buffy the Vampire Slayer was hella gross. A 200 year old man having sexual relations with a 16 year old....
Have you ever watched the UK series "Love Thy Neighbour?" There are people all over the world who still believe this is the right way for a white person to treat a person of a different ethnicity/colour/religion. It dates from 1972. Nearly 50 years ago.
At least you got to enjoy them while growing up. Some of us always saw them that way and couldn't really enjoy them.
Oh, I feel this. There was a movie I loved as a child: What About Bob. I recently watched that and realized it just wasn't as funny as I remembered and the way they portrayed Bob and his psychiatrist.. I just had to cringe.
I saw 1/2 of one episode, it was horrible. I couldn't finish it. How could that show have lasted 12 years? How cold it be a 'hit'? How could people voted for the monster. Must be a Venn diagram of overlapping circles. Just terrible.
Load More Replies...Women Finally Get More Affordable Access To Reproductive Healthcare And They Find A Way To Demonize It
USA healthcare system for you, not helped by half the country being super religious and acting like it's 400 years ago
Men's Issues
Cowards
That's not quite fair. I get the humor in it, but there are plenty of lesbians who prefer masculine girls.
Maybe because having a partner that shares interests lead to less conflict in the relationship?
Then say you want a partner who shares your interests and stop attributing that as being “guy stuff” and “one of the guys,” duh.
Load More Replies...They do. All the good men are taken, or gay..Sooo basically, taken.There's a reason Kayleesha, that you are 35 and still single.And it's not the men. Rob, single 37 has lost interested completely. Xbox/PS, beer and pornhub is what his life is about after work and he doesn't really care much for dating.
A yes, the binary choice of women, because there are only two clearly-defined types and no room for nuance or complexity.
Load More Replies...Go Masturbate!
It’s About Wanting To Control Over Women’s Sexuality
I'm sorry, but owning a device that's sole purpose to to put your stuff on every conceivable platform known to the human race, and then you go and store it INSIDE those platforms and expect it NOT to get hacked and exposed, is a delusion. Rule 1 of nudes: KNOW WHERE THEY ARE AND WHERE THEY ARE NOT. Either on your camera (NOT PHONE) or safely somewhere physical that only you can access.
Women - Being Conditioned To Accommodate The Patriarchy Since Forever…
Or the pockets are so small you can't even get your keys in, let alone anything else.
I am raising my boys to treat girls equally and to treat them as friends and it has worked perfectly so far. What I didn’t know, until we moved to a new city, was my youngest (who was in grade two at the time) was known as the peacekeeper of his class between the boys and girls. A couple of the moms who were friends of my wife said that after we moved the boys started to bully the girls. Why can’t more parents teach their boys respect?
It's all about education and there needs to be a consistent and thorough programme to bring boys up to realise all these above things. We'll never get anywhere unless, straight from the start, we nurture youngsters to understand equality. It's harder to teach stubborn sexist adults, like Bryan Wilson below (By the way, if anyone knows him, report him to the police - he's a potential rapist), but some people will understand this and progress will be made. Eventually more people will realise that treating women unequally for any reason is unacceptable.
Something I really like about this article is that a ton of men are talking about the sexism and it's given me more tolerance for some men. It's a good reminder that despite how many donkeys there are, there are still plenty men that care about women and want to help the become equal.
The comments in this post show why people won't "discuss" this topic - a lot of people aren't able to discuss and jump to insults right away if an argument doesn't fit their narrative
This biggest insult is, if they disagree with you, that you are xxxphobic somehow!
Load More Replies...When I was a kid, every time I admired something fancy or expensive, one of my adult relatives would say, "You have expensive taste. You'd better find a rich man to marry you." People are so clueless about how they indoctrinate very young children with sexist ideas.
Very bitter pills to swallow but the truth is the truth and I will always support women (and matured men) to break these outdated shackles. Societies will never truly develop and grow until the things in these posts are appropriately acknowledged and addressed as they should be.
I don't know about that... I've worked with a lot of Brits over the years and I'd say they're as sexist or more sexist than their American counterparts.
Load More Replies...I am raising my boys to treat girls equally and to treat them as friends and it has worked perfectly so far. What I didn’t know, until we moved to a new city, was my youngest (who was in grade two at the time) was known as the peacekeeper of his class between the boys and girls. A couple of the moms who were friends of my wife said that after we moved the boys started to bully the girls. Why can’t more parents teach their boys respect?
It's all about education and there needs to be a consistent and thorough programme to bring boys up to realise all these above things. We'll never get anywhere unless, straight from the start, we nurture youngsters to understand equality. It's harder to teach stubborn sexist adults, like Bryan Wilson below (By the way, if anyone knows him, report him to the police - he's a potential rapist), but some people will understand this and progress will be made. Eventually more people will realise that treating women unequally for any reason is unacceptable.
Something I really like about this article is that a ton of men are talking about the sexism and it's given me more tolerance for some men. It's a good reminder that despite how many donkeys there are, there are still plenty men that care about women and want to help the become equal.
The comments in this post show why people won't "discuss" this topic - a lot of people aren't able to discuss and jump to insults right away if an argument doesn't fit their narrative
This biggest insult is, if they disagree with you, that you are xxxphobic somehow!
Load More Replies...When I was a kid, every time I admired something fancy or expensive, one of my adult relatives would say, "You have expensive taste. You'd better find a rich man to marry you." People are so clueless about how they indoctrinate very young children with sexist ideas.
Very bitter pills to swallow but the truth is the truth and I will always support women (and matured men) to break these outdated shackles. Societies will never truly develop and grow until the things in these posts are appropriately acknowledged and addressed as they should be.
I don't know about that... I've worked with a lot of Brits over the years and I'd say they're as sexist or more sexist than their American counterparts.
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