Yeah. I had a job for a while in a company where women were only cleaning ladies or receptionists. I was the only woman EVER hired to do the same job as men were doing. It was physically demanding but most women with good health could have done it (I met plenty of women doing harder jobs, including cleaning). When I did the interview they asked me if I felt that I was capable of working in a male team and told that they didn’t have any other female worker. I has overqualified for the job but I needed it so I took it. I was treated from the beginning like useless despite doing a better job than many and treated like a child. One of my coworkers even asked me why I wasn’t “doing a lighter woman’s job like cleaning”. I told him that if he thought that being a cleaner is a light job it must be because he never cleaned in his life. Morons. I left as fast as I could,

hey Sara, I hope you don't get the view from the bored panda community that we don't care about the obstacles many women can face. But as far as I understand (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong), the two main issues exclaimed are 1. the feeling that the concerns of the lady are unjustified. For example, the internal mysogeny thing isn't exclusively for women. I don't know why, but if I face another man who is like me in many ways, I get really competative and am tempted to treat them like crap. I know it's bad and I hope women and men get taught to love and work together with those like you (as seems to be the place in your great office!), but I wojuldn't exactly call it mysogeny. 2. the tone. It is pretty negative. Sure, some things need to be expressed negatively (e.g. sexual harrassment), but the world isn't a purely bad place. We don't want to see post after post bashing people rubbing in how bad they are, but also give credit to the achievements of people!

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"constant sexual harassment and demeaning of women".

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Ah yes, because submissively going along with what the men in charge wants has served us soooo well in the past, huh. Screw that, let's get angry. Let's get angry that we are under-represented at almost every decision-making level. Let's get angry that almost every woman, even in this day and age, has experienced sexual aggression and assault.

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Put your head down, cringe in the presence of men and 'go along to get along'? Thank you for demonstrating internalize misogyny so well. .

Certainly we must encourage people to see each other as people. But denying gender works only until gender becomes unavoidable. Teach "women are people," (not baby-makers nor sexual conquests, not bitches or church mice, but people) rather than "we're all people, not men and women."

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This dumb s**t is really setting back women everywhere every time she talks.

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What's the matter? Show us on the doll where the girl hurt your fee fees.

when the brothers stormed the beaches, the sisters nursed their wounds. when the brothers stormed the beaches, the sisters stayed home and worked the jobs they no longer could. when the brothers stormed the beaches, the women kept this nation on its feet and were absolutely not taking selfies during the Normandy landings (I assume that's what you're referring to) because that happened in 1944??? You say this as if you were there. Did you land on the beaches of Normandy to fight Nazis? Or do you believe that you earn credit for everything a man does just because of your common sex. Sure, we sisters will storm the beaches, but you'll find there's a lot more to do here than sit around and take selfies so roll up your sleeves and get ready to work.

We will gladly storm the beaches. Then we’ll take a selfie of our success to show your sexist a*s that us women are very capable and don’t need men to save us or do all the heavy lifting.

It's a rhetorical trick, only flipping genders on one side of the relationship. The male equivalent would be Mommy issed, and yes, I hear that a lot. (Maybe not QUITE as commonly as Daddy issues.) The accusation is that someone doesn't know how to deal with the opposite gender because they had a poor relationship with the opposite gender as children. It's Freudian crap, which certainly CAN be used misogynistically, but it's not inherently misogynist.

you live under a rock then (:

The reason why some men join the hate organisation matos is because these men are hateful misogyns.

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Aunt Messy, good one! Very similar to: when you’re a feminist, everything looks like a sexist micro aggression.

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When you're an incel everything looks like a threat.