You have internalised misogyny and it shows.
This is a man’s world. Women held 7.4 percent of Fortune 500 CEO roles in 2020, and in 1995, there were none. It’s very convenient to blame women for this, but it is ignorance which blames the oppressed.
According to a 2018 Linkedin survey, women are less aggressive than men when applying to jobs, sending on average 20 percent fewer job applications than males. For years femininity has been synonymous with humility, modesty and passivity, and women are taught that society will not accept them unless they check these boxes. But toxic masculinity doesn’t just impact women, it is crippling the boys and men around us. This patriarchal culture is torturing everyone. Men and women both contribute to this, discounting male and blaming female rape victims. A man should be able to defend himself and a woman shouldn’t have been wearing that skirt. With rape cases smearing the headlines on a daily basis, we’ve all heard this around us; blaming the victim and ignoring the assailant. Masculinity is associated with strength, power and responsibility; and thus directly opposes the stereotypical nature of femininity. Men are the CEOs because we made them so, men are bombarded with responsibility whether or not they want or can handle it.
We are the future, and the opinions we form now will change the world. We need to understand that there is nothing wrong with being a feminist, wanting equality for all should be our goal. However, defaming feminism and hand picking negative examples of bad people and associating them with feminism, cheapens the trials of equality.
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