If you have a problem with the book, stats and video below, you just might have some insidious misogyny cleverly disguised as I don’t know, I am an open minded modern guy or I like women but…
It is not as though men and boys are not bullied and/or abused but the difference in the stats is significantly higher for women being abused. You can say oh not all men or boys all you want but there is a HUGE DIFFERENCE. Try becoming a female for a week or a month or a year and get back to me…
One guy complained that men and women get bullied and that women can wear anything they want to at work but boo hoo poor men have to wear ties, jackets and shirts to work EVERY SINGLE DAY… oh my goodness…
1. well, dear boy, I for ONE would gladly exchange wearing ties, jackets and shirts to work every day if it meant that I would receive the $400,000 (average) pay that YOU have received over your professional lifetime that I HAVE BEEN DENIED DUE TO THE WAGE GAP. (which also means that my Social Security is less than yours, maybe even half). And women live longer so we have to make do with less for longer.
As i was leaving one job, I found out, going through files, that the guy who had had my job before me was younger, less experience, less skill and yet, HE WAS PAID $5 MORE PER HOUR THAN I WAS. The Only thing that HE HAD THAT I DID NOT THAT I COULD SEE/READ WAS HE HAD A PENIS AND I DID NOT.
And when I became INTERIM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR SIX MONTHS, did I receive the same salary as the Executive Director before me? Oh no, not even a raise in pay so his salary of $38K and mine was $25K. He had a penis, too.
As Editor of a newspaper, I worked TWO JOBS for the price of one although I doubled the size of the newspaper in six months by increasing the advertising sales, and made many needed improvements and changes. When I asked for a raise and promotion, it was denied.
I could go on and on and on.
“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”
― Margaret Atwood
2. Now here is another statistic, I am sure that we women would gladly relinquish… The No. 2 cause of death in the U.S. (for) women under 50 is being killed by their spouse or domestic partner. No. 2 cause of death.”
Domestic violence is a major cause of death for all women.
Over half of the killings of American women are related to intimate partner violence, with the vast majority of the victims dying at the hands of a current or former romantic partner, according to a new report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Between 960,000 and 3,000,000 incidents of domestic violence are reported each year, while many other incidents go unreported.
Violence against women and girls is a problem of pandemic proportions. At least one out of every three women around the world has been beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused in her lifetime with the abuser usually someone known to her.
3. How many guys pay more for their health insurance than women do AND how many guys are under attack and having health care constantly being taken away from them like women??? how many men are told that fertilized eggs are people but they are not?
4. Did you know that there are 40 million modern slaves and 71% of them are female? (according to the Global Slavery Index)
5. Invisible Women
Data fails to take into account gender, because it treats men as the default and women as atypical, bias and discrimination are baked into our systems. And women pay tremendous costs for this bias, in time, money, and often with their lives.
Caroline Criado Perez investigates the shocking root cause of gender inequality and research in Invisible Women, diving into women’s lives at home, the workplace, the public square, the doctor’s office, and more.
6. How many men work 2-3 jobs without pay (child care, house work, caring for other family members plus their regular job?
It is Women’s History month…we are mad as hell and not going to take it anymore.
I am not going to smile, sit down and shut up, be ignored, insulted, harassed, denigrated, mocked, disregarded, silenced or left out and neither are a majority of the women in America and around the world.
I regress for a moment. I grew up in Queens, New York. When I was 11 years old, my aunt gave me a pair of gold lame pants. I thought that they made me look grown-up so I wore them to show off on my next visit to my grandparents in the Bronx (Yonkers). As I walked up the Grand Concourse, a group of Puerto Rican boys spotted me. They stared, whistled, and called me names I did not understand. Did I mention that I was 11 years old. Ok, it was not exactly the scene in West Side Story with Anita being mauled by the Jets at Doc’s diner. But i was pretty, cute and had developed young. I already had breasts. This was my first experience of being street harassed for having a female body.
At work at age 18, I was considered a pretty face in the typing/secretarial pool at ABC. No one seemed interested in my brains or creativity. Many experiences with boys and men escalated into my 20’s…one landlord i had never looked at my face or into my eyes, only stared at my chest. Other women have similar stories.
Women have been left out of the conversation far too long and we are not putting up with it anymore…ignore us, ridicule us, threaten us at your peril
Yes, A President CAN BE INDICTED
It is absurd that I just read an article discussing the controversial topic of whether a sitting President can be indicted. The author gave 12 important points on the subject of yes, a President can be indicted. HOWEVER, he just happened to cite ONLY men on the subject and left out what Rachel Maddow discussed on the topic. She outlined how the DOJ policy came into being. How could he leave out the context for the policy?
Maddow thoroughly explained the crucial context in which the DOJ policy on Indicting a President (the weak basis for the policy) which was based on a memo written in 1973 related to Spiro Agnew. She informed how Agnew was a crook who was running a criminal scheme from inside the White House when he was VP.He was literally taking cash bribes inside the Oval Office. Attorney General Elliot Richardson knew what Agnew was doing and if Agnew were to replace Nixon / Watergate, an active criminal would become President.But it wasn’t clear to him whether he could bring charges against Agnew, wasn’t sure if it was legal. Agnew’s lawyers were loudly proclaiming that you could not. They were saying that Agnew was immune from prosecution simply because he was VP. It became Robert Dixon’s job what the DOJ’s policy would be on this. Dixon had been a law professor before becoming the head of OLC. There was a 40 count criminal indictment against the VP ready to be served up at any time. Was he immune? Could that indictment be filed against him? Dixon’s answer has been used for decades now to support that a President cannot be indicted. She played an interview she had done in a podcast called Bagman with a man named JT Smith who was there at the time.
She also cited a tweet by former Attorney General Eric Holder:
“The Constitution does not anticipate allowing a president who obtained the office by fraud to remain in power.”
Women’s voices are an important part of the equation and since we are the MAJORITY of voters and citizens, people just might want to wake up and LISTEN TO US.
Nancy Pelosi on the cover of @RollingStone is worth millions of dreams to women and girls across America.
She said: “Show your power. Know your worth. Have a plan. And be ready.” #WomensHistoryMonth
While we are on the topic, the way women political candidates for President are being manhandled by the media and GOP in absurd ways is insulting.
Too young. Too old.
Too pretty. Too ugly.
Too skinny. Too fat.
Too qualified. Unqualified.
Too much experience. Inexperienced.
Too warm with audience. Cold hard bitch.
Politico article seems like an Onion headline—Kamala Harris is connecting too well with voters? Eric Boehlert asked on twitter.
Why do news outlets still judge women for BEING WOMEN? (as if we are NOT HUMAN BEINGS, as if we are abnormal, not men).
Really, does being born with a penis qualify boys/men for ANYTHING?
Most of the print media seems fixated, obsessed and terrified of a woman becoming president
No man gets treated like women.
Maybe we are ALL Too Woman. Too Bad. Grow UP.
Then there are the GOP/Trump and his toxic masculine cult fansSTILL chanting “Lock her up.” Their response to the Michael Cohen hearing has also been absurd. Someone on twitter pointed out that:
Democrats: We are concerned that the President may have committed treason, bank fraud, tax fraud, charity fraud, laundered money for Russian mobsters and committed campaign finance violations.
Republicans: We are worried that Michael Cohen may get a book deal.
Alexandria Ocasio Cortez showed both Democrats and Republicans how to question a witness at the hearing.
The GOP also are spewing lies about the new 100+ women in Congress accusing Alexandria Ocasio Cortez of everything from dancing, being a witch, a socialist to not being white or rich enough or too poor (basically). And let’s not forget how she and the other Democrats are going to take away your cows aka hamburgers (MOOOOOO).
Here’s what Lawrence O’Donnell pointed out about the GOP and Socialism:
The attacks from Trump and the GOP about abortion, making up lies about Democratic women killing babies is DANGEROUS AND CAN GET PEOPLE KILLED OR INJURED. And the projection and hypocrisy is just insane. The so-called pro-lifers are the ones who want to make abortions unsafe and illegal, limit access to birth control and health care for women and next thing you know they will want to strip women of the right to vote.
The sexually assaulted victims of Jeffrey Epstein, Robert Kraft, and Donald Trump (and other powerful men) have been silenced far too long in the age of the #MeToo movement
“The fact that Epstein is free today is a reminder that the American justice system has long been all too willing to ignore the words of girls and women, especially when they accuse a wealthy and influential man. It’s a reminder that those with enough money and connections, from Epstein to Harvey Weinstein, can often manipulate the legal system to serve their own ends.”
How primarily white male billionaires have been getting away far too long with all sorts of crimes including sexually assault, abuse and trafficking women is discussed brilliantly by Will Bunch in response to the recent arrests and shutdowns of massage parlors in Florida.
Alyssa Milano, Gloria Steinem and other powerful women have pointed out that women have been left out of the Constitution and we needed to be INCLUDED with the Equal Rights Amendment. One state stands in the way of the ERA getting passed.
initially a movement to pass legislation for women’s equality, the pro-Equal Rights Amendment movement in the 1960s soon came to represent much more. Watch ‘This Happened: On Account of Sex’ with @SRuhle at 9 p.m. ET on @MSNBC.
It has been a man’s world, where it seems that women have been left out of everything according to author of the book Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez.
“Imagine a world where your phone is too big for your hand, where your doctor prescribes a drug that is wrong for your body, where in a car accident you are 47% more likely to be seriously injured, where every week the countless hours of work you do are not recognised or valued. If any of this sounds familiar, chances are that you’re a woman.
Invisible Women shows us how, in a world largely built for and by men, we are systematically ignoring half the population. It exposes the gender data gap – a gap in our knowledge that is at the root of perpetual, systemic discrimination against women, and that has created a pervasive but invisible bias with a profound effect on women’s lives.
Perez brings together an impressive range of case studies, stories and new research from across the world that illustrate the hidden ways in which women are forgotten, and the impact this has on their health and well-being. From government policy and medical research, to technology, workplaces, urban planning and the media, Invisible Women reveals the biased data that excludes women.”
1 in 3 women are sexually assaulted and harassed. Most women do NOT report rapes and sexual harassment due to receiving harsh criticism, blamed for being attacked and death threats like Dr. Christine Blasey-Ford received.
50% of women without homes do not have shelter due to domestic violence/abuse and more women are killed due to their intimate partner/relationship …
Elderly women without homes… 50% of those without homes are 50+ and this affects women more than men due to the wage gap, smaller Social Security checks, living longer than men and other reasons. Women and men are dying in cars and on the streets of the USA and elderly homelessness is rising. Housing IS Health Care and some are recognizing this.
CeliaSue Hecht Writer 