Sexism you have personally experienced or have heard of? *READ POST 1*

py2006 wrote: »

In this day and age I would be EXTREMELY hesitant in complimenting a woman on something as trivial as hair or clothes. Especially in the work place

Unless you know her personally, saying nought is the safest option

Well in the way you kinda know colleagues but don't fully know them. I'd avoid any compliments. Probably overly cautious but you never know...

Permabear wrote: »

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By that logic women would never give out about men referring to women as girls and yet that obviously happens. Double standards are pretty common.

What ya'll reckon about this article

The article basically says girls don't have their own minds at a youngish age despite being 2 years more mature apparently. There has to be some level of accountability among young women. No all boys are bad. Not all girls are vulnerable, innocent snowflakes. Some girls watch and like porn too. A lot of young girls are heavily influenced by the sexualised imagery in pop and female popstars etc. A quick glimpse on Facebook will show some startling profile pics. Is this young boys fault too?

Pornography is molding and conditioning the sexual behaviors and attitudes of boys, and girls are being left without the resources to deal with these porn-saturated boys.

Totally disgraceful campaign. Saw it on the news last night. . All about how mothers need help and education . How mothers can help stop cut death. How this box will help the mother be organised for the arrival.
It's like they don't even understand that there could be a father or that he might need help liking after the child

irishexaminer .com/viewpoints/columnists/louise-oneill/virginity-has-been-framed-as-something-a-girl-must-safeguard-and-hold-on-to-as-long-as-possible-422480.html (can't link)

Louise O'Neill again. She is one of the most illogical Irish journalists out there (which is saying a lot). Her big gripe is with the western, straight, white patriarchy which treats women worse than dogs yet won't criticise any cultures/ideologies/religions that immiserate women, for fear of being islamophobic.

So the article - she basically assumes that women are so innocent and oppressed by the patriarchy and must be given a safe space to explore their sexuality yet boys (who mature slower than women) should just get on with it.

She goes on that women are over sexualised yet complains that not enough parents posts pictures of their teenage daughters in bikinis.

This quote stood out to me:

"when I began to speak publicly about my decision to write Asking For It, a novel that deals with the rape of a young woman in a small Irish town and the subsequent use of social media to circulate images of the attack, that I started to receive emails and letters from mothers of teenage daughters.

They would ask me how best to protect their daughters and their anxiety was palpable.

Their daughters were posting too many selfies on Instagram, they told me, their skirts were too short, tops too low-cut; these young girls were behaving in ways that didn’t seem ‘ladylike’ to their frantic parents."
There's so much to address here. Firstly, it is great that someone is speaking out about the dangers of social media which can ruin lives and exploit women.
However, O'Neill is not the one who should speak about it. She has created this overwhelming sense of paranoia in society about rape culture. I rarely, if ever, see the term rape culture correctly addressed. Terms such as rape culture, islamophobia, fatphobia etc are terms created by feminists, sjws and regressive liberals so as to stifle any criticism that can be levelled against them and make them feel like they are victims. When one hears the term rape culture, their immediate idea of the term should be a culture where rape is not only condoned but supported and rewarded, like in the Islamic world. However, this misleading term actually means: "rape culture is a setting in which rape is pervasive and normalized due to societal attitudes about gender and sexuality...Behaviors commonly associated with rape culture include victim blaming, sexual objectification, trivializing rape, denial of widespread rape, refusing to acknowledge the harm caused by some forms of sexual violence, or some combination of these" (taken from Wikipedia). Even this soft definition cannot be completely applicable to the western world. For example, I am considered a victim blamer if I say that a woman who gets wasted and walks home from a club at 4am and gets raped in an alley increases their chances of getting raped, yet is just as innocent as a man who gets raped at knife point on his way home from work. Furthermore, "some forms of sexual violence" include rape jokes, sex jokes and even interrupting women in a conversation. Many people openly say that there is widespread rape in the world, such as in the Middle East, the Congo and even in some parts of western Europe, such as Cologne on NYE, (cue the claims of racism, islamophobia, bigotry etc) yet claim that the figure that 1 in 4 women will get raped on campus is blown way out of proportion. This is considered "denial of widespread rape". The people who trivialise rape tend to be the feminists who make up these terms and make the definition of rape so broad that even arguing with a woman can be considered rape. They also never give a shít if men get raped, even though men get raped more than women. I have never seen a feminist protest outside of a prison, demanding the guards to help protect the victims of rape. I never saw feminists protesting when a man in the 80s got life in prison for rape, his wife divorced him, after 25 years he got out after being proven innocent due to DNA testing, got only $4m dollars in compo from the government (should have got at least $40m) and his wife was able to sue him for a few hundred grand in alimony payments. And good ol Louise can claim that our rape culture is so pervasive in Irish society because we teach women not to get raped, not men not to rape. I could write another 5 pages on why this is so unethical and plain stupid but I won't bother. Ploughing ahead on the sexism....

She mentioned the double standard of the whole Slane Girl incident and how no one talked about Slane Boy. This is so wrong for so many reasons. Feminists and sjws really hate science and logic. A 12 year old with basic biology can understand one of the founding reasons why no one criticised the boy - men have to work for sex, women don't. Men produce 400-800 spermatozoa at the time of ejaculation. We are programmed to try everything in our remit to get our genes into the next generation. Women produce one egg per month and child birth is a very dangerous process which means they have a lower sex drive and have to be careful about their mating choices. This is one (yes one, not the only factor) about why men who get a lot of women are called studs and women who sleep around are called sluts. Both the boy and the girl at the concert deserved to be reprimanded and denounced as they broke the law. But it isn't rocket science as to why society would be more inclined to give shít to the woman, rather than the guy. The "boys will be boys" phrase that O'Neill hates applies to stupid, drunk 20 year old men as they are hardwired that way. I feel these feminists are so afraid of admitting that men and women are different because they believe that they will lose all their rights. It's not sexist nor misogynistic to say that men and women are different in many ways but should be treated equally under the eyes of the law. Again, science and logic seems to go over her head.

O'Neill quoted some doctor: "harmful societal messages about gender roles teach boys and girls that girls are to blame when men and boys are disrespectful, aggressive or violent towards women and girls.” Wtf. Society says that women have the right escalate a verbal argument toa physical level by slapping, punching, spitting, kicking and/or throwing a drink at a man's face and if he even dares defend himself, he will go to jail. When the situations are reversed, the man also goes to prison.

Ok, I haven't realised that I've been ranting for the last 10 years about this one fúcking lunatic.
TLDR - O'Neill is a hypocrite