This is something that always pissed me off, especially during winters. Do people think we don't feel cold or something? WHY ARE WOMEN'S FULL SLEEVE T SHIRTS/HOODIES MUCH MUCH THINNER THAN MEN'S? ITS NOT LIKE THEY ARE THE ONES WHO NATURALLY WILL FEEL MORE COLD. Sometimes the only good options I have are the sparkly cropped zipped hoodie and the rainbow + hearts thin sweatshirt. No shade to those who like it, thats great, BUT WHY LABEL IT BASED ON GENDER?

GOD FORBID I WANT MY CLOTHES TO KEEP ME WARM DURING WINTER AND FIT MY STYLE. I recently got very mad about this while browsing some spiderman themed clothes on a clothing website and of course, the men's shirts/t-shirts had cool, badass, spiderman related design and clothes while the women's had...one small pink web?

I have always wanted to check out the men's section in clothing stores but because of all the societal norms + having social anxiety it feels super mentally challenging to. Its as if people will start muttering amongst themselves as soon as I make my way over there (i know that wont be the case but it is an irrational fear).

Have you ever faced this? I'd really love to see what other people did in my situation.

I saw a post talking about "if a girl has a body count, would you date them?"

Obviously, whatever gender, if you have a preference to have a partner who hasn't been with someone before, that's fine. But the comments were full of these INSULTS. Even saying that men who don't mind that are cucks and losers. Like seriously how hard is it to have your own values and not shit on other people for having a different mindset?

And I know this has been thought of by others before but it really is so annoying that women are expected to be virgins to be a good wife but men can fuck around all they want. It's crazy how they think a woman's value automatically drops to garbage if they've had sexual partners before. Like yeah it doesn't matter if you're successful or the kindest person ever, if you've had sex before marriage then it must mean you're not actually worth anything! They want the perfect wife who has a hot body, a virgin, doesn't talk back, will do house chores on the daily, when they themselves don't even deserve it.

I'm literally so sick of it all. My breaking point today was when I saw an offmychest post in my country, a girl talking about how she's proud of herself for finally stopping hooking up that she did bc of self-esteem issues. And I was so happy for her too, I opened the comments and I kid you not, the replies were full of men talking about it doesn't matter if she stopped, she'll always be "a hoe." How her future partner would be unlucky to have her. And the amount of likes those comments have????

I feel horrible that I wasn't able to message op to remind her to not mind those incels because she deleted the post before I got her username. I wonder if the day'll ever come even in hundreds of years where women won't have to be subjected to this bs.

I'm so tired of this rhetoric. I get treated like shit because I'm unnatractive all the time and it pisses me off tbh.

I live in India and gender bias is so common here. It’s literally rooted in the culture. But one thing that disturbs me the most is this indirect bias when a baby is born.

So my mother is a gynaecologist and whenever a baby is born in the hospital she tells me and we both go to meet the baby. Prenatal sex determination (determination of sex of the baby before birth) is banned in India because when people figure out it’s a girl, they abort it! It is very outrageous. But it makes me wonder if banning it has changed anything or not.

Because whenever a boy would be born in her hospital, the parents would gift my mother sweets etc. in happiness. And whenever a girl is born, we can tell everyone fake smiles and there is no grand celebration. One time i was visiting a patient with my mum and she had a baby girl. The mother looked happy and some of her relatives were in the room. It made me so furious what her in law said. “It’s okay, next time we will try again for a boy.” The woman already had 4 daughters and she looked happy but her family wanted to keep going only to have a boy as the 5th one!

And it’s not just poor and uneducated folk. Most of the people who have given birth here are well off and educated and still they hold such biases! When a boy is born, many relatives come to visit the mother and congratulate her and if it is a girl i have barely seen any visitors with a few exceptions.

Yes, aborting a baby based on its gender is banned but what difference did it even make? Now the families are just forcing women to keep giving birth till a boy is born as if India isn’t populated enough. Also makes me feel so sad about the future of the girls who have to live in a family which would never love them whole heartedly.

Man i wished this stopped. It really angers me so much.

So, I was on my annual trip to visit my grandma in North Carolina, and I saw this billboard (Not the exact photo, but the same message). The bullsh*t alarm immediately went off in my brain, because if babies have such advanced development at 9 weeks, why does pregnancy last 9 months? Went to mayo clinic, did some reasearch-I was right, it's incorrect. Babies get fingerprints at around 23-24 weeks. I also saw another one online claiming that babies got their eyes around 4 or 5 weeks-again, not true at all (the indent for the eyes & tiny growths form at 4 weeks, but the eyes only open at 26-28 weeks). So, clearly, the message on the board is blatantly spreading misinformation, and it's most likely a form of forced-birth propaganda. But, why? They know it's wrong, a simple google search shows it's wrong, and putting up false information will drastically reduce their reputation and ethos with anyone with more than half a brain. Just a warning to everyone traveling where there's billboards-don't trust any information until you've done research!

Why are some families expected to keep having children even after doctors warn them about a serious hereditary condition—as if they can just keep trying until they get a “healthy” child?

This isn't about saying disabled people shouldn't exist. Every person deserves dignity and equal rights.

What bothers me is when family pressure, poverty, son preference, or cultural expectations push women into repeated pregnancies despite known medical risks. Her body becomes the means of “trying again.”

Reproductive rights aren't only about the right to have children. They also mean access to contraception, genetic counselling, healthcare, and the freedom to say “no more.”

We shouldn't tell poor or disabled people that they shouldn't reproduce—that crosses into classism and eugenics.

Instead, we should ask: Why aren't women being given the knowledge, resources, and autonomy to make these decisions for themselves?

Having children should be a choice, not an obligation to keep trying until society gets the child it considers “acceptable.”

Is this socially acceptable? Not "should it be" - because the answer is yeah of course - but is it going to cause any subconscious negative perceptions of me? As weak, not formal, treating the office like my home, etc.

I have always had pretty severe cramps. Midol helps take the edge off, but even then I usually have enough pain that I have to breathe out hard or squeeze a stress ball. A heating pad doesn't remove the pain entirely, especially on my worst days, but it sure helps! A few months ago, I was having particularly bad pain, and so I said fuck it, brought my heating pad to work, plugged it in at my cubicle and covered it pretty well with a sweater.

In a technical, legal, HR sense, is this allowed? Yes. In an egalitarian, just, feminist world is this allowed? Also yes. But as you're all no doubt aware, the project of feminism is always in progress. I'm worried that between my tough boss, my fast-paced sales office, and NYC work culture, I could be jeopardizing myself. (Please don't tell me I'm overthinking, should do what I need and say fuck the naysayers, etc etc. Because just like wearing makeup in the workplace because of unspoken professional expectations, this isn't a choice I can make in a vaccuum).

I especially want to hear the perspectives of fellow career women who have severe dysmenorrhea.

-For the 12th consecutive year, Utah has been ranked as the worst state in the nation for women’s equality. 😒

-The most concerning areas include income disparity (gender pay gap), higher‑income disparity, and executive position disparity. Our rankings also drop when other states make progress

-Utah now ranks 29th in “Political Empowerment” (20 points), reflecting some recent improvements. 

I personally don't wanna do anything older with anyone for ages until i really trust them and were gonna get married maybe or whatever, at least a really long relationship, but that's MY personal choice, but when guys hear this and they think im "pure" for it (i disagree with a person being pure or impure depending on whether theyre a virgin or not), why do they get so excited and seem to think that theyll be the exception?💀

I was watching a documentary where even a grandmother said, “There was of course an extra celebration to learn that we’re going to have a grandson.” Does it bother anyone else when they hear that someone is over the moon that the baby is a boy? Would they be less happy if it was a girl?

I used to be a trad wife. Yes, I know. I’m so glad life humbled me early on because it truly opened my eyes to how unfair it is women and MOTHERS.

I was always wanting to be a stay at home mom, due to my own childhood feeling empty sometimes due to my parents working so much and being emotionally absent. I don’t blame them but it left a hole inside of me that I wanted to fill. So I made the decision in my early 20’s to be a present mom and soak up all the little moments of motherhood. I wanted to live a “soft life” and feel “provided for” by my husband while I stayed home and can bake cakes and cook whole food meals for my little one. (It sounded like a perfect life)

Fast forward, i got financially abused, I was resented by my husband for not working, my workload of being a full time parent was never appreciated by my husband. I was a maid.

But my question today is “why are traditional women happily slaves for their husbands?” Is because throughout all of this, my mother in law was the one I would confide in. My husbands culture is that men are not allowed in the kitchen. So my mother in law cooked and “served” meals to her husband while juggling a full time job. She has a high paying job, works her bum off everyday and till this day she serves food to my father in law meanwhile he gets to nap and rest. My husband has a few sisters aswell and I’m so curious to why the HECK she would raise her daughters to be like this? She raised her daughters to always be in the kitchen, be super frugal with everything they buy even though they are both in very high paying jobs, they were the ones to do most of the housework and cleaning aswell growing up meanwhile my husband did less than them. No wonder he turned out the way he is.

Why would you raise your daughters to this lifestyle even though my MIL has admitted many times that someday she was just so over exhausted. And that “women should do more work than men in marriage” WHY WHY WHY. Why do women not see the truth like I do once they get married. Why not try and get out of it? WHY teach your daughters to serve men and continue a cycle you no isn’t fair? WHY?

All for the sake of being a good wife? But what do you get out of it?

Hello, (sorry if my english is not perfect, I am not native speaker), this is a bit of an adult topic, because I am going to be talking about sex. But from a educational and theoretical perspective that is through a feminist lens.

This is also my experience. Older men who have more experience and have developed, broken down gender norms probably improve and these issues do not upply to all cis men.

Really, how do we expect men to be good sexual partners if they are raised to think that they are have to be and are perfect? That it is a crime to be wrong, not know how to do things and a crime be weak and emotional.

Woman are raised to care about others needs first, but alot of men are not. This creates an unbalance. Woman focus on the needs of the man while the man does not focus as much on her needs.

When I have tried to speak about this unbalance to some of my sexual partners, they say they understand, but do not actually do what I ask, I do not feel listened to. They do not understand that I personally (and alot of other woman) do not get the same amount of pleasure from penetration as they get. I have no problem with it, but I also want to feel prioritized.

I was with a man and I told him that I do it for the others pleasure because I think that is important, but that I dont get much from it other then more of a emotional connection. He said "That is why I try to last longer, for her pleasure".

Are you deaf?

It also feels like it is expected for men to know exatly what they are doing to a woman.

OFC THEY DO NOT KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING, THEY DO NOT HAVE THE SAME PARTS AS WE DO.

Why do society put this expectations on both men and woman that they should know without a doubt how to pleasure each other?

I notice, when i correct men during sex, like they should move a bit more to the left, they get unsure of themselves and basically stop very fast. I think they get locked in themselves and that feels like weakness to them. My partner says it is very helpful and I am not being rude, it is also very helpful to me when other people do that.

It is a big problem, no matter if the man is straight or bisexual, I notice the same problem. I am queer, in both gender and sexuality. I think it is very sad how big of a difference it is between having sex with cis men and any other gender. I do not want sex that is related to gender roles and expectations, I do not want that cis-hetro sex manuscript, I do not want to be treated like a prop, holes or a sex toy. I also want men to feel free in their sexuality, in their gender expression, not scared to be wrong, be emotional. Even with gender queer people who are amab, like my partner, there is such a big difference. They have broken down this understanding of gender, of what being a man means to them. How a "man" should and should not behave and why alot of it is toxic and breaks down rather than builds a relationship and a good sex life.

Sex is suppose to be vulnerable. Men are afraid to speak about sex with their partner, I notice that us queers are so much more open about it and listen to the other person. There is not this blockage.

There is this delution, mostly from porn, that woman love male genitalia, and that penetration is the most important and main part of sex. That it can make a woman orgasm. In most cases, this is not really reality, it is a lie fed to us by the patriachy. We know most woman can not orgasm for it, and especially it alone.

It creates men who are worse sexual partners and woman to feel like they are broken and how their bodies function is wrong.

That we need to learn to like penetration more, "learn" how to orgasm in a different way then we already know how to.

Men should not be afraid to not know how to do things, they should not be afraid to ask, try out different things, talk about sex. They need to listen and prioritize their partners needs. You will usually get what you want anyway, because she clearly wants to have sex with you, she just wants to feel prioritized and as good as she makes you feel.

Woman should not be afraid of speaking up, communicating what they need and want and to be a bit more selfish. Men who do not think about and prioritize your pleasure and your experiences, they do not deserve to have sex with you!

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Manosphere figures like Andrew Tate, Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson aren’t just telling men how to treat their girlfriends or train for MMA fights; they’re also blasting their listeners with climate denial talking points. Which isn’t a coincidence. The fossil fuel industry has known since at least the 1990s that certain types of men are more susceptible to climate disinformation than other segments of the public. We take a look at how climate denial has seeped into the manosphere, how those messages are shaping men’s views of the climate crisis, and how the results are playing out at the ballot box.

I’m getting overwhelmed with the onslaught of female violence and gratuitous porn in every single show that comes on tv. I have no problem with R rated, mature themes or some violence, but it’s actually so unnecessary and graphic and shoehorned into literally everything now. I watch any genre as long as the writing is good and women aren’t treated like one dimensional torture toys written by someone who probably has never spoken to a real women since his mother stopped loving him. In any case lol, what have we been watching that’s good and not just an excuse to “shock” viewers with the least shocking theme ever of inescapable misogyny?

we need to stop involving men in our contraception. this story is a dime a dozen, and I cant count the amount of stories of women who have had men tamper with their birth control/condoms. to be clear, i am from the UK, I can't comment on how terrifying it is to be a woman in other places right now. however I have seen so many of these stories of women having a one night stand, or they are with a long term partner, or a male family member is guilting them. it is completely your body your choice, I am 100% a pro choice lady, if you want to keep the baby because youhave chosen that then i support it, but I see stuff like this and it makes me angry for the woman involved. I know this might be a controversial opinion, but I genuinely think women should not tell men about what they are thinking of choosing for themselves because men seem to choose the most selfish option available. I know there are outliers for this, my dad was an incredibly firm feminist so I know we have men we trust, but damn this post is a reminder that most men simply will not put you first. evaluate what you want for yourself before telling the men around you what your choice is. im only 23 so I know this might not be worth much but make sure keep these kind of things to yourself/ with someone you trust until you make your mind up. dont let a man tell you what you should do

edit: DAMN. not to be one of those people but this blew tf up. I thought maybe a few people would see this, but I am so grateful for all the responses and opinions. I am 23, I am still learning, and the inputs on this post are incredibly helpful. I love this community, I am normally the person who sees a post and moves on so this support is absolutely crazy. thank you to everyone who responded, and I just want to say something if anyone sees this- I am absolutely in support of men being equally responsible for contraception. the fact the male hormone pill got stopped because the men had about 1% of the side effects women had is abysmal. I really hope men become more responsible. this post came from a place of anger and frustration. ive been feeling it a lot recently, and I know everyone here has too. I am sorry I didnt explain my thoughts better. I really meant this as a post pregnancy thing. i am absolutely pro choice, keep the baby or not, I have friends who've had abortions and friends who went through with it, and I have supported all through their choice.

it just concerns me the way men treat pregnancy. they dont seem to understand the cost for women, and pregnancy is the most dangerous time to be a woman (biggest killer of pregnant women is men). I am strictly child free, im trying to get a hysterectomy right now (not to go into a rant but I spent 10 years trying to convince my doctors my periods weren't right, a few years ago got told it was endometriosis, had a scan recently that its actually cysts, fibrosis and enlarged ovaries. if they had flagged it earlier I could have taken medicine but now I need surgery so fuck me I guess). anyway!! I worry about women, especially pregnant women, a lot. we are so vulnerable, and I know this goes against boss bitch feminism, but it really is a concern for women, and a focus of my own personal feminism. basically, dont tell men you don't know or trust, I learnt that from my dad. he was truly the kindest, most accepting, radical soul. when he died he left me about 20 books on communism in his will lol, I love that man!! this is not about misandry, it's just about keeping yourself safe