What's your number 1 feminist ishoo?

in terms of things that affect me personally, it's issues around women and food / eating behaviour

right now?

the fact my DD doesn't get the full support her SEN would warrant if she were a DS (ASD related)

They're all related, aren't they? I (try to) see all issues through a feminist prism. Even if I saw the benefit of arranging them into a hierarchy — which I don't — I wouldn't be able to isolate one from another.

On a practical level, I guess I devote the most time to trying to support women and building up their (including my own) self-esteem. That's both a feminist issue — women have lower self-esteem because of inequality and negative gender roles — and not only a feminist issue, since it also affects boys and men, and is clearly intersectional with regard to disabilities, race, class and sexualities. It's my #1 issue simply because it has affected me personally, and I think I have developed skills that can help others.

Double standards

For me it's the fact sexism is not seen as serious vs racism, for example. So Saudi Arabia is not treated as apartheid South Africa was, and sexist slurs are explained away where racist ones would not be tolerated. Or for example the golf open being held at a club that doesn't admit women members - imagine if it didn't admit black people.

We need to see sexism as being a serious problem and not some women overreacting to properly get I grips with it, I think

Agree Puffins - I can't bear apologists for prostitution who bang on about how its a woman's 'choice' and 'the money's good' and assorted other complete and utter nonsense. And yes it's always 'other women' - never themselves, or their daughter, or friend, or wife, or partner. It makes me think they either must be a) a bit dim or b) have not a single little clue about the reality of life for the vast majority of people working as prostitutes.

800 women a day die from pregnancy.

I think probably rape culture, which feeds in to sexual violence against women and girls, pornography and prostitution because all of those things depend on society seeing women and girls as constantly available for sex because they aren't really human.

There was a section on WH this morning about Yewtree and Saville, about why women didn't report, and why those who did weren't believed. One of the quotes which gave me the rage was, "Saville's lawyers will make mincemeat out of you if you proceed".

There's a thread about prostitution at the moment, which I can't comment on because we're not supposed to be cross and agrue and I can't think of a nice response to women who say that those 'other' women can be used as wank socks by misogynist men because 'agency'.

Women being in abusive situations, particularly marriage/intimate relationships.

Pornography - ruins lives, dehumanises, increases violence, lowers self esteem, filters through to young teenage women in fashion/behaviour and sex, increases hatred toward women in ordinary men.

It's the BIGGEST industry and it hates women.

I think it's the number one threat to females.

And before some eejit comes on and says it helps their relationship or some crap can I remind you that this is the Feminism topic and I don't come on the average topic and say this - just here, just here do I say it's the number one threat to women.

It's true, there are so many that its very hard to narrow it down to just one

Two very good examples given so far

I guess mine would be rape culture - the widespread belief that all women and girls are 'up for it' all the time, that a woman can be blamed for an attack on her because she was wearing X/drinking X/flirting/walking alone/whatever, the belief that all women and girls exist for men's viewing pleasure, the belief that women are just not fully human. This affects every single woman and girl in some way and its so prevalent - its deeply frightening.

violence against women and girls