I’m late to the party but can I have a rant?! (Feminism)

[WhatNowSal]

I was brought up in a traditional household. Nothing majorly controversial I don’t suppose but I grew up oblivious really to the idea that women were actually still treated badly (for want of a better phrase). I’ve been reading about feminism and I am shocked at some of the bias towards men.

Seatbelts for one!!!
Pay gap... didn’t realise this was really still a thing and oh my gosh it really is having read into it
Men can strip off in hot weather but women have to cover their breasts because they are so sexualised
Going into offices pre covid with awful period pain - fuck off, just no, let women work from home if they need to and can. Similarly women are always pushed aside at work as they have to juggle most things
Men who ask if they can help... erm no the cleaning isn’t my job thanks it’s just as much yours!

Anyone else want to join me in this?! I feel so shocked by things I hadn’t even noticed in life, I’d just accepted and never questioned

For sure Guinea. Always the woman that steps back. I’m not sure what the answer is.

To think that there are people like @DagL out there who may be in decision making roles too.

Heard of The Bechdel Test?

@PurgatoryOfPotholes

I read that one of the things that radicalised Flora Drummond, one of the suffragettes, was the sudden introduction of a minimum height threshold for the position of Postmistress she'd been training for. She was 5 foot 1, and the new rule was that you had to be 5 foot 2. Obviously, that blocked far more women than it did men. Indirect sex discrimination.

Ooh, I didn't know that - that's really interesting.

Re: seatbelts, I'm convinced that my belt is going to decapitate me in an accident. Being short with a big chest means that it sits right against my neck no matter how much I lower the mechanism/raise the seat.

Wait I bought a wedge booster cushion for my car a few years ago - it was intended for my hips because it had ridiculous bucket seats and my hips have never been the same since SPD and sciatica during 2 pregnancies, but it has had the lovely side effect of the seatbelt finally sitting in a somewhat more sensible place across my chest AND I can see over the steering wheel now with the seat jacked all the way up!! I'm 5'6" as well so I know there are a lot of shorter women than me who must be even worse off.

Welcome to the party...Infuriating isn't it!

@Xiaoxiong I hadn't even thought of a booster wedge (headslap!). Off to Google one now - thank you for the tip

@Xiaoxiong I am so short I need a piece of foam block behind me to get rid of the sides of the seat "wrapping" around me. My shoulders are where a man's torso would still be so it actually forces my shoulders to be pushed forwards and it's agony

Yes to the seat belt issue too in some cars I've resorted to an adjustor to that it sits better.