Feminism is forĀ females. It is for the sex that has face oppression since the dawn of humankind.Ā
Fetuses that have been aborted and infants that have been killed for being female. - [X] (The practice has been the cause of death for millions.)
Women who have acid thrown in their faces. - [X] (60 percent of acid attacks are on women, according to the London-based charity Acid Survivors Trust International, and acid assaults are grossly under-estimated.)
Girls who have their breasts pounded to make them disappear or stop developing. - [X] (It is typically carried out by the girlās mother who will say she is trying to protect the girl from sexual harassment and rape)
Women who are burned to death by their new husbands when the womanās family refuses to give him more money. [X] (The wife is typically doused withĀ kerosene,Ā gasoline, or other flammable liquid, and set alight, leading to death by fire)
Women who are beaten by their boyfriends and husbands and told not to retaliate, even minorly, because it will put them in danger of more serious abuse. [X] (Ā Globally, a wife or female partner is more commonly the victim of domestic violence.)
Women who are raped by their husbands, which has only been declared illegal in many countries in the last 100 years.[X] (In many countries, marital rape either remains outside the law, or is illegal but widely tolerated, with the laws against it being rarely enforced.)
Women who have been victims of āhonor killings.ā Thatās when a family kills a woman for bringing dishonor to her family, usually by having sex outside of marriage, being gay, getting raped or just being in a relationship the family didnāt like.. [X] (Ā The murders are sometimes performed in public to warn the other women within the community of possible consequences of engaging in what is seen as illicit behavior.)
Little girls who have their genitals mutilated which leads to major health issues and has only gotten attention globally in the last hundred years or so. [X] (Health effects depend on the procedure, but can include recurrent infections, chronic pain, cysts, an inability to get pregnant, complications during childbirth and fatal bleeding.Ā There are no known health benefits.)
Young girls who had their feet bound until it results in a lifelong disability. This was only stopped in the 1930s. [X] (The process was started before the arch of the foot had a chance to develop fully, usually between the ages of 4 and 9. )
Women who are forced to have abortions. [X] (When the perpetrator causesĀ abortionĀ by force, threat orĀ coercion, or by taking advantage of womanās incapability to give her consent.)
Women who are forced to get married . [X] (Early and forced marriages can contribute to putting people, specifically girls, into aĀ cycle of povertyĀ and powerlessness. Most are likely to experience mistreatment such as violence, abuse and forced sexual relations. This means that women who marry younger in age are more likely to be dominated by their husbands. They also experience poor sexual and reproductive health. Young married girls are more likely to contractĀ HIVĀ and their health could be in jeopardy.)
Women who are forced to get pregnant. [X] (Ā practice of forcing a woman to becomeĀ pregnant, often as part of aĀ forced marriage, or as part of a programme of breedingĀ slaves.)
Women and little girls who are forced into sexual slavery. [X] (Forms of sexual slavery can, for example, be practices such as the detention of women in ārape campsā or ācomfort stationsā, forced temporary āmarriagesā to soldiers and other practices involving the treatment of women as chattel.)
Women who have been the victim of mass rape during war. [X] (AlthoughĀ war rapeĀ has been a recurrent feature in conflicts throughout history, it has usually been looked upon as a by-product of conflict, and not an integral part of military policy.)
Lesbians who are raped to ācorrectā their sexuality. [X] (Corrective rape and other accompanying acts of violence can result inĀ physicalĀ andĀ psychological trauma, mutilation, HIV infection, unwantedĀ pregnancy, and may contribute toĀ suicide.)
This is female history. This is female oppression. It doesnāt get better.Ā
A:Ā 20% of the Senate is female. 18% of the House is female.Ā There has never been a female President, nor a female VP.Ā Women make up 5% of the Fortune 500,Ā and 5.3% of the Fortune 1000.
85% of domestic violence victims are women, andĀ 96% of reported pedophiles are men.Ā 18% of women will be the victim of rape or a rape attempt (as opposed to 3% of men).Ā Texas just made creep-shots legal,Ā twenty-two states enacted 70 abortion restrictions during 2013.Ā Politicians are working toĀ give rapistsĀ legal assistance.Ā
NFL players are allowed back in the field after numerous domestic violenceĀ andĀ rape accusations.Ā Lesbians are consistently fetishized in America as being nothing more than a turn-on for men,Ā with the lesbian porn industry being a major part of the porn industryĀ (which routinely glamorizes and fetishized violence against women),Ā which makes eleven billion dollars in profitsĀ each year,Ā while the same people who contribute to that will oppose gay marriage.Ā
Commercialized sex trade (strip clubs, pornography, prostitution etc) also perpetuates the problem of human traffickingĀ and itās a major global problem.Ā A conservative estimate of the crime puts the number of victims at any one time at 2.5 million. Victims of trafficking can be any age, and either sex. However, a disproportionate number ofĀ women are involved in human trafficking as victims.Ā The average age of a sex traffic victim is 12 years old.Ā Ā
Men build, own, manage and attend thousands of strip clubs,Ā and spend billions on porn; and yet; present them with the idea of dating a stripper or a porn star and it becomes very controversial. Apparently, jacking off to a womanās body is cool, but finding the same women respectable to date is a joke.Ā
Weāre under-represented in movies, music, and television.Ā In mainstream media, men are given much more air-time than women.Ā White men are given far more time than anyone else.Ā
Between 2007-2012, only 30% of speaking characters in movies were female.Ā The average ratio of male actors to female actors in a film was 2.25 to one.
In music, gender inequality is still a rampant problem.Ā Creative & Cultural Skills reports that the gender divide across music industry related jobs is 67.8% male to 32.2% female.Ā
In official debates, studies have shown that people only feel the floor is being equally shared when women speak much less than men, any more and people become uncomfortable.Ā
Studies have also shown that little girls are interrupted more often than little boys, teaching them what they say is less valuable, and they are usually interrupted by their fathers.Ā When men have complicated relationships with their fathers; itās deep and meaningful. When woman have the same issues, problems caused by the lack of male presence in her life, ābitch got daddy issues.āĀ
Women are sent dick pics and told itās flirting.Ā Theyāre cat-called in the street and told itās a compliment.Ā Ā Women are made fun of for liking things like shoes and pumpkin spice lattes; a stereotype that all women enjoy the same thing; and that whatever it is is a joke because so many women enjoy it.Ā
Iām not even includingĀ the commodification of womenās bodies in advertising, or the debate of breastfeeding in public while breasts are commonly used in the media for male attention. Or how women are treated in traditionally āgeekyā communities as posers, or the pay gap (whichĀ isĀ aĀ fuckingĀ realĀ thing), orĀ ridiculous continuous sexual harassment over the internet,Ā or the issue of slut-shaming and victim blaming or rape jokes, or domestic violence jokes.