Feminism is Just Another Way Men Waste Womens’ Time
Women aren’t equal because men don’t want them to be
Alice was a fighter. When women prison guards tried to forcibly rip her clothes off, she fought so hard they had to call male guards to help.
The shockingly inappropriate act of male prison guards ripping the clothing off a woman got extensive press coverage for her case.
She wasn’t done yet.
She’d been sentenced to 30 days, so she refused to eat. They force fed her. It was so torturous that by the end of her 30 day sentence, she had to be carried from the prison to a doctor. She had permanent gastric damage.
Her crime? Protesting for equal rights. Alice Paul was a first wave feminist.
Women are not equal because men don’t want us to be
After years of protesting, the first wave feminists finally won their battle. Men gave them permission to vote. In 1920.
Three years later, Alice Paul and Crystal Eastman presented the equal rights amendment to Congress. A proposed amendment to grant equal legal rights for all citizens, regardless of sex.
That’s all they wanted. To be equal under the law.
The answer was no. Women kept asking. For 98 years. The answer was always no. It was no in 1923, it was no in 1971 and it’s still no today.
Women don’t get equal pay because men don’t want them to
In 1963, President Kennedy signed the equal pay act, stating that women could not be paid less than men. Sounds great, right? Except women earn, on average, 80 cents to the male dollar.
It sounds so piddling, doesn’t it? 20 cents? We’re whining about 20 cents?
But no. Over the course of a year, it works out to over $10,000 less and close to half a million less over the course of a 40 year career. It’s worse if you’re a woman of color, because you get paid even less than white women.
But hey, we don’t get fired for being pregnant anymore, so that’s progress, right? Baby steps, darling.
Women don’t have equal opportunity because men don’t want them to
Women had to fight for education, too. It wasn’t until after WWII that college courses for women began to adapt from vocational to educational.
According to the National Science Foundation more women receive degrees in science and engineering than men. Yet, according to the UNESCO Institute, less than 30% of research appointments are women and only 3% of the science Nobel Prizes have been awarded to women.
Women account for half of doctoral degrees in science and engineering, but only 10 percent of U.S. patent holders are women. Apparently, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is more likely to reject a patent if a woman is the sole applicant. Get a male partner before you apply, honey-girl.
Women don’t get credit for their work because men don’t want them to
Men have been taking credit for womens’ work for centuries. Like when Rosalind Franklin discovered the double-helix structure of DNA and two men took credit for it and won the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for her work. She wasn’t credited until she was dead and it’s just tragic.
Lise Meitner discovered nuclear fission, but Otto Hahn removed her name from the paper. Then he won the 1944 prize in chemistry from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Can you imagine how that felt?
Can you imagine having your life’s work stolen? Watching someone else win a Nobel prize for your work? History is littered with “successful” men who stole their “brilliant ideas” from women.
Ask any woman you know if a man has ever taken credit for her work. When she gives you a wordless stare, you’ll have the answer. Like it or not.
Women don’t get equal representation, equality in healthcare or anywhere else because men don’t want them to…
Everywhere you look, women are not equally represented. Only 7% of CEOs are women, only 27% of congress are women and gender inequality still plagues the healthcare industry.
Men have no idea what it’s like to go through the world as a woman. No idea. None. Clueless.
Don’t leave your drink on the table when you go to the washroom. Don’t go out after dark alone. Travel in pairs. Be careful how you reject men because women have been shot for saying no. Stay safe. It’s not safe out there.
If you work late, carry your keys between your fingers and hurry. Look inside first. Lock the doors. Every two minutes, a woman is raped in America. Domestic violence costs 37 billion per year just in law enforcement.
Six women are killed by men every hour in a “global pandemic of femicide” that is being partly hidden by COVID-19 — and the United Nations is calling for urgent action. More than half of women and girls killed by men are murdered by their current or previous partners, according to UN data.
There are college girls outing rapists on TikTok while men scream about ruining the poor boys’ lives. Really?
Maybe if he doesn’t want his life ruined, he shouldn’t rape? Yet when we tell you about our experiences, you shriek #notallmen.
Now let’s talk about work. Getting “talked over” and mansplained. For less pay. And if she’s serious about that idea that would help the company grow, she actually considers letting a man suggest it. It’d have more merit.
I wonder how long men would tolerate it, if the tables were turned.
The only people who hate feminists more than men are the princesses of patriarchy.
United we stand, divided we fall and no group is as divided as women.
Calling each other hos, sluts. Raised to see other girls as competition for the male gaze and assuring the boys she’s not like those other girls. Oh honey, yes you are. Because if you weren’t, you’d see the other girls different. See?
When a woman gets raped, there will be women asking why she was there, what she was wearing and making snide comments about her reputation. When a man gets mugged, do they ask if he’s ever given money away?
Some women believe men “should” be the head of the household because that’s the originalist/fundamental/Christian/traditional way. Others aren’t feminists because it makes it a lot harder to find a husband.
Only 29% of American households exist on the man’s salary alone, but some women still want to find that dream-man to pay her way. You can love a rich man as easily as a poor one, right?
I would love to hate those women, but I can’t. They are a product of the patriarchy we were all raised in. They swallowed the pill. Drank from the bottle that said drink me. They are the women patriarchy created.
Don’t you dare call them gold diggers when you made them that way.
When you add up the men who want to be the head of the house, the king of his castle and the princesses of patriarchy, feminist are the minority.
Feminism is just another way men waste our time
All winter, when you turned up the heat instead of building a fire, it’s because Alice Parker invented central heat. When you warmed your cold car, you could because Margaret Wilcox invented a way to heat cars by channeling air over the engine and into the cab.
When you open the fridge to grab a beer or make a sandwich, it’s because Florence Parpart invented the electric refrigerator.
When you brew your coffee, it’s because Melitta Benz invented the coffee filtration system. She was a woman long before she was a brand.
Without a bunch of women, man would not have walked on the moon and when you go get your plague vaccine, they will inject that life saving liquid using a syringe invented by Letitia Geer.
700 people survived the Titanic because Maria Beasley invented life rafts. Damn shame the men in charge didn’t buy more of them.
And you’re reading this because Ada Lovelace invented computer algorithms that made this communication method possible in the first place.
Thank God those women didn’t waste their time writing about feminism and equality instead of doing the work they did.
What a tragic waste of their lives it would have been.
They had so much more to offer us.
Equality could happen instantly if men wanted it to.
Congress passes around 100 laws per year. The Patriot Act was proposed and passed in 3 days flat. Equality could happen instantly if the powerful men who have the power to make that happen actually wanted it to.
Blink of an eye. Pass the laws. Enforce them. Men don’t want to.
They like being the king of the castle.
Alice Paul died the summer of 1977…
She was only 24 years old when she was thrown in jail, forcibly stripped by male guards and force-fed until they destroyed her gastric system.
Young and full of desire and determination to see women given the same status as men under the law. Equality.
She lived the rest of her life waiting. It never happened.
She died the summer of 1977, age 92, and is buried at Westfield Friends Burial Ground, in Cinnaminson, New Jersey. Two years after her death, she was posthumously inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame.
To this day, people leave notes at her tombstone to thank her for her lifelong work on behalf of women’s rights.
In the time it took you to read this, 4 women have been raped and one has been murdered. Their perpetrators will walk free. 75% will never be reported and of the few who are reported, half a percent will face repercussion.
March was Women’s History month. I would like tell Alice Paul to rest in peace. But I don’t imagine she does.
“This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had not been excluded from world affairs, things today might have been different.” — Alice Paul
