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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

"The hardest thing about being a wOman is deciding what to wear"

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IndominusRex · 11/11/2015 08:33

I've never posted here before so I'm a bit nervous (waves hello) but reading this quote from the Glamour awards made me so frustrated I could burst.

So to stop me feeling like my head might actually explode, I'd like to ask, what's your hardest thing about being a woman?

I'm stuck choosing between endometriosis, constantly being told by society that I'm doing things wrong, being felt up on the tube, or the lovely PTSD thanks to abusive ex.

Although picking the right t shirt out IS tough sometimes...

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BigChocFrenzy · 14/11/2015 08:19

For Jenner, seciding what to wear may genuinely be the most difficult thing, because she has not experienced - and will never experience - the most serious problems that almost all biological females experience:

. Female reproductive biology and its effect on health & career - flooding periods, risks of pregnancy, menopause. Often with doctors unsympathetic to womens' problems.
She never experienced any of these. Never had to have a career break for kids.

. Not adapting her life since about age 12 to try to avoid the risk of rape or sexual harassment - a Gold Medal Decathlete will still retain the tremendous muscular strength and power to be much stronger than most men.
She will have been very physically strong all her teen and adult life.

. Not being 5'3" with a higher pitched voice and battling to seem as impressive at work as the 6' men.
yy to ideas been shot down and then bein claimed by men.
yy to being "shrill" in disagreement, while men are allowed to shout.

. Even identifying as a woman now, she avoids nearly all the hassle, because very rich and powerful women are the tiny minority who experience little if any discrimination and "can't see the problem - women just aren't assertive enough"

Rich women don't have to walk home alone late at night from work, because they can't afford a taxi or chauffeur. They are probably always in "safe" areas anyway.
The privilege of wealth and class can definitely compensate for gender.

BigChocFrenzy · 14/11/2015 08:42

Oh and all the major world religions saying females are inferior:
we must be quiet, cover ourselves so as not to stir male lust, defer to males.

A major baleful influence for the billions of women growing up in societies that either enshrine those beliefs in law, or where societies have been shaped by them. That includes the UK, EU, USA.

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