Things feminists are sick of hearing
Feminism
is a great movement because it promotes the belief that men and women
should be treated equally and have equal opportunities. Simple, right?
Erm, not quite. Although you meet so many wonderful people that have
similar beliefs to you, every so often you bump into someone who is
determined to test your patience by throwing a few ridiculous remarks
your way.
Here’s 13 things feminists are sick of hearing.
1. You must hate all men, right ?
Every time you hear this you take a deep breath and explain carefully
that no, no you do not.
You just don’t like anyone who seeks to put women down, and it
doesn’t make a difference to you whether they are male or female.
2. So do you shave your *insert random body part*?
If you had known that taking an interest in feminism meant not having
to shave, you totes would have done it sooner.
Apparently as soon as you start expressing the need for greater
equality between the sexes you don’t have time to remove body hair.
3. Do you burn your bra?
This question is similar to having bad breath after eating onions,
because inevitably you will be a victim of it at some point.
Much as you would LOVE to do this, you can’t bring yourself to doing
it because bras are super expensive, and it would physically hurt you to
have to burn one.
In fact you only ever throw a bra away when the underwire pops and
stabs you in the boob.
4. Are you a lesbian then?
Obvs, because you have an interest in women’s issues it totes means
that you’re a lesbian. Duh.
5. But we’re all equal now…
Erm, when was the last time you saw a photo of an important group of
board members with an equal amount of men and women? Exactly.
6. What does your boyfriend/husband think?
He thinks that I’m fabulous and appreciates the fact that I have a
mind of my own which is capable to form my own judgements.
7. You need to have sex
Good suggestion, but I don’t see how that will help in increasing the
number of females heading up FTSE 100 companies.
Plus, if having sex actually worked then the patriarchy would have
collapsed a long time ago.
8. Men get objectified as well
Yes they do. But until the topic ‘how quickly a female can lose her
baby weight?’ stops popping up for discussion in the media we don’t
think men have it as tough as women do. Soz.
9. Learn to take a compliment
Having a man wolf whistle at you while you’re power walking to work
in a pencil skirt isn’t a compliment.
It makes you wish the offender would fall down a pot hole.
10. Are you on your period?
It’s always nice when people take such an active interest in your
monthly cycle.
But just because you’re expressing your displeasure over such issues
as unequal pay between the sexes doesn’t mean that you’re menstruating.
11. Is it because Beyonce is a Feminist?
Although Bey is amazing, your feminist awakening was actually caused
by realising how grossly unequal the position of men and women is in
society. But long live Queen B.
12. Why do you wear make-up then?
Who decided that to be a feminist meant that you don’t wear make up?
Just because you believe in equality doesn’t mean that you can’t pop
a bit of lipstick on here and there.
13. Get back to the kitchen!
Sure we’ll head right back and dump a load of laxatives into your
food. Good luck with that one.
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