a big MRA guy talking point is like, “oh, feminists want equality? Why don’t YOU work in a [mine/logging camp/oil rig],” implying that the most difficult jobs in the world are performed by men, which is dumb as hell considering most sweatshop workers & most agricultural laborers on earth are women, not 2 mention the implicit suggestion there that reproductive/domestic labor isn’t difficult lol.
These same men probably couldn’t care for a child for one hour let alone a day.
Women face extreme amounts of harassment in male dominated jobs. Well, there are female construction workers in india, in most third world actually, so this “when it comes to office jobs feminists love it but the HARD jobs with physical labor???” like women do and have done lots and lots physical labor throughout all history, invented LOTS of shit, while being enslaved by men at homes. Try doing that when your basic human rights have been forcefully taken away and when you’re not even recognised as human, boy.
i often think about something we cant live without: water. women walking 6k a day just to have water to drink and cook with. yeah women have it soooooo easy on this planet
If women were measured by the informal domestic labor they produced, they would overrun the measurement of formal work data.
Not to mention that men force women out of the hard labor jobs constantly! On top of all the general terrible harassment women in the trades have to put up with. I’m a welder and a carpenter and often men act confused when I talk about my profession or when I go in to buy lumber, they either pretend I’m a hobbyist (think DIY middle aged soccer mom painting over antique furniture with pastel chalk paint or making “fun pallet projects”) or I simply don’t know what I’m talking about. It’s incredibly difficult to be strong and stay in trade industries dominated by men who sexually harass you, who constantly degrade you, who touch you and leer at you without your permission, who overlook you for promotions, who baby you because they think you can’t handle things, especially when there are so few other women working with you, if any. And we have to be vigilant about some of those women being the type that would throw you under the bus in a second just to get some points from the boys.
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