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Misogyny Still Exists.

A group of teen female track athletes were kicked out of practice and then a lacrosse game. Why? Because they were wearing sports bras without a t shirt over it in temperatures over 80°F (26.6°C). The worst part? The boys were allowed to go shirtless. Yes, you heard me. The girls had to go with a t shirt while the boys were allowed to go shirtless.

Their athletic director, Alice Chapple, stopped the practice and warned the girls that their attire was inappropriate and a distraction to their male coaches. Yes. Their male coaches. Middle aged men who are most likely married, who possibly have kids, etc. Why would the girls attire be distracting to the coaches? If it's distracting to the coaches, wouldn't the coaches be the problem?

The next day, the girls showed up to practice dressed the same way again because it was even hotter. This time, Chapple kicked them out of practice for violating the dress code. She also told one of the boys practicing to put his shirt back on but didn’t kick any of them out. How is this fair? How? Where's the reasoning or the logic?

Later that day, the team members tried to attend a lacrosse game in the same outfits, but security guards and Chapple stopped them.

Why?

Society has sort of put this idea in people's heads that women’s bodies are sexual, like we’re overly sexualized. But guys having their shirts off isn't a problem? If you look at rape cases, so many excuses circle around things like "She was wearing this." or "She was drunk." and even "She was asking for it, walking around dressed like a slǚt and wh0re."

If men can't control their urges when they see a beautiful woman, if they can't control themselves, then why are they being allowed to run entire countries? Make it make sense.

If a lesbian can control herself in a locker room full of women in various states of undress, why can't a man control himself when he sees a fully clothed woman walking down the street? Why do we hold men and women to such different standards? Why are we so much more lenient with men? Why is it that women are taught the consequences? Why never men?

Things need to change. We can't keep going like this.

"If 50 men call one woman a ‘hoe’, you’ll believe it. If 50 women call a man a rapist, you find it questionable? Let’s think about this!” - Amber Rose, Via Instagram

Pay Gap

Did You Know?

In 2002, a survey was conducted. The aim of the survey was to figure out the pay gap between genders. The results? For every dollar a man earned, women only earned 80 cents.

Then, in 2022, a similar survey was conducted. The results? For every dollar a man earned, a woman would only earn 82 cents.

2 decades and only a difference of 2 cents. WTF America. Do Better.

If trans people shouldn't have gender transition surgery because god made them the way they should be, then...

Shouldn't you not dye/bleach your hair?

Get tattoos?

Get piercings?

Use acrylic nails and nail polish?

Stop cherry picking to support what you want. Trans people are whatever gender they want to be. Pronouns are not the same thing as gender. Everyone uses pronouns.

Abortions Debate Pt 2: Are They Really Murder?

Murder (Noun) The unlawful killing of another human being by another

So firstly, is a fetus a human in the womb? Some might say that life starts at conception, but I disagree. I, personally, think that life starts only once the baby is born and has actually taken a breath. A fetus cannot survive outside of the womb up until a certain point. That point is 6 somewhere in between 6 - 7 months. At that point, an abortion could potentially be illegal. That’s just a way of appeasing the pro lifers, to try and please everyone.

When you think about it, at its core, a fetus/embryo (Or a zygote for biological terms at conception) is basically just a clump of cells undergoing a reaction and evolving. The cells start off as one which goes through mitosis to create two, and then that creates, four, and so on, until they differentiate. One could argue that all animals do that, but it doesn’t make sense. When a fetus does it, it is growing new parts. When we do it, we’re simply healing and generating new cells. There’s a difference. A fetus cannot feel pain, does not have an opinion, and does not have any thought processes.

When it’s conceived, and when it’s developing, a fetus could technically be considered a part of the mother. It’s using nutrients from her body, using her body as a host, and so on. Even after birth it still uses her body (Breastmilk).

Religion’s Role

Compare two countries that use religion a lot. Christianity (USA) and Islam (UAE). In Christianity, no matter the circumstance, be it a woman’s life is in danger, or the fetus will be born with fatal deformities, an abortion is murder. However in Islamic countries (UAE for example), an abortion is justified if the mother’s life is endangered by the pregnancy or if the fetus will be born with fatal deformities. When you look at the religious aspect of things, you can’t just look at one. You have to look at multiple. 

How Can A Fetus Possibly Consent?

A fetus can’t. A fetus can’t consent, but you’ve also got to consider that at the same time, it can’t ask for anything. If we’re bringing consent into this, then wouldn’t a fetus need to consent to the mother taking vitamin supplements? Vitamin supplements can affect the fetus’s development. So can alcohol and smoking. Doesn’t the fetus need to consent to the mother drinking and smoking too? How does it possibly make sense?

What About Adoption?

Adoption is not a solution. There are thousands of children in foster care, and 25% - 40% of them are abused. If a woman got an abortion instead of condemning a child to a life of foster care where they’re more likely to be abused than adopted, which one is more morally correct? In 2019, only 26% of children in foster care were adopted, and that number has been steadily decreasing, with the abuse rates increasing. Not to mention, studies show that youth in foster care are two and a half times more likely to contemplate suicide than youth not in foster care. If abortion is murder, if it does take a life, all it does is speed up the process. If a woman gives birth to a child and puts them up for foster care, only for them to kill themselves 10 -15 years later, thinking that they’re unloved, what’s the difference? You’re still condemning them to death. So pro lifers need to ask, which is better? Foster care or abortion? 

Whose Choice Is It Really? The Fetus’s Or The Mother?

We need to ask, why is it that an unborn human being has more rights than a human being with family, friends, a job, people they love, etc.? Why does bodily autonomy apply for one person instead of both? In the end, who is more affected? If the fetus is aborted, what does it lose? Emotionally? The fetus has no friends, no emotional connections, etc. The mother on the other hand has everything to lose. If she can’t financially support a child, what happens? She could end up on the streets. What about emotional support? The child will end up with a distant parent. In the end, the topic of abortions affects the women more than the fetus. 

Agree Or Disagree?

Anyone who says that the LGBTQ+ Community is pushing our "Agenda" down their throats have clearly never talked to conservative Christians.

Here's 10 Things Women Weren't Allowed To Do 30 Years Ago

Deny sex to their husbands (.The US refused to criminalize marital r@pe until 1993. That says a lot.)

Breastfeed in public

Get a business loan without a male cosigner

Wear pants on the Senate floor (I genuinely don't know what to say about this one.)

Access to emergency contraception

Box in the Olympics

Obtain health insurances at the same monetary rate as men (Basically, this was the US saying that women's health didn't matter as much as men's health, because, well, why worry about women, right? It's not like we keep the human race alive and continue it.)

Fight in military combat

Marry other women (This crosses into LGBTQIA+ rights, but it's still valid)

Use the bathroom easily at work (Fun Fact! Once, a supermarket told all their female staff that they had to wear an armband to show if they were menstruating, so that they would be permitted to use the bathroom at work!)

I think that a lot of the time, we tend to take a lot of the rights we have for granted, and not take the time to thank those older feminists who fought for them, for our freedom.

Keep fighting, keep shouting, never let them win. If they win, we lose our rights.

Original thread:

https://mobile.twitter.com/DianaMiller5/status/1522278413096132609?cxt=HHwWgoC53deJnKAqAAAA

Note, I am finding these threads on the twitter feeds of ICU nurses who are now dreading the horrors that Roe falling will bring to their hospitals. This, on top of the horrors that they’ve seen and continue to see because of the pandemic. They were already exhausted and hanging by a thread.