fandomsandfeminism:

antibullshitffem:

are not for equality. Why? well because they’ve already achieved it. They are for dominance.

Not a single state in the country has gender parity in it’s federal representation.  Not a single state has 50% or more women in congress.

As of right now, only 20 of the 100 US Senators are women. Only 84 of the 435 members of the House are women.

We have never had a woman or a non-binary person as president. We would need to elect a woman as president every election for the next 176 years (assuming that none of them ever got reelected) before we reach gender parity in the Oval Office.

In 2010 the median income of Full time Year Round workers was $42,800 for men, compared to $34,700 for women. The reasons for this are varied, and when you factor in race, disability, trans identity, and sexual orientation the numbers can become even more startling.

Women need an additional degree in order to make as much as men with a lower degree over the course of a lifetime.A woman would need a doctoral degree, for instance, to earn the same as a man with a bachelor’s degree, and a man with a high school education would earn approximately the same amount as a woman with a bachelor’s degree.

There are more CEO’s named JOHN than there are WOMEN according to a recent survey. 

And all of this only takes into account AMERICAN women. When you look at issues that effect women GLOBALLY, things become even more starling. 

57 million children worldwide, including 31 million girls, are out of school and two thirds of illiterate adults are women. In developing countries, adolescent girls are more likely to drop-out of secondary school than boys, particularly in rural areas. - See more

Each year, 15 million girls are married before the age of 18. 

Women represent 40% of the world’s labor force but hold just 1% of the world’s wealth.

I can go on, if you want. But ya know, I’m only interested in dominance. CLEARLY we’re already SOOOOOO equal.