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u/alvaspiral ยท -9 pointsr/TwoXChromosomes

You make it so easy. Let me repost an old comment of mine that covered about 1% of sexism's vast corpus in America alone:

  • Anti-abortion movements have restricted abortion such that 87% of American countries are no longer served by a provider;
  • Domestic violence predominantly continues to be by men against women, and 22-35% of emergency room visits by women are because of domestic violence;
  • "Just leave the guy who's beating you" doesn't hold up, as 74% of domestic violence murders happen after the woman has separated from the male;
  • Male attitudes towards beauty maintain a climate in which 42% of girls in Grades 1-3 want to be thinner, 81% of 10-year-old girls have a palpable fear of being fat, the average American model is thinner than 98% of American women, 80% of 13-year-olds have gone on diets at some point in their short lives, and women, socially punished by becoming less beautiful with age, purchase ~12 million cosmetic procedures per year (for about $13 billion spent);
  • Some immigrant communities practice clitoris cutting and female circumcision in the United States;
  • 50,000 women are sex-trafficked into the United States each year, and some American women (both domestic and immigrant) are kidnapped to be sex slaves;
  • In the United States, 60% of rapes go unreported because of social pressures and fears, ~700,000 rapes occur a year, and ~20% of women have experienced a rape attempt;
  • Women earn less than men for the same value as work in the US, and African-American and Hispanic women earn even less;
  • Women continue to be underrepresented in the highest-paying and most prestigious sectors of American business due to prejudice and sexist barriers, economic, social, and legal;
  • Women are implicitly forced to accept more part-time work in America, and as a result, more poverty, because gender attitudes about child-rearing and biological function force them to be at home for domestic duties;
  • Women spend 3-10% more time total paid and unpaid work a day than men because of gender attitudes towards women maintaining the home in America;
  • Women spend 9 more hours a week cooking, cleaning, and doing other household activities than men in American because of gender attitudes (statistic most recently taken in 2000);
  • More girls are below basic prose and document literacy than boys in American schools (last measured 2003);
  • Women are represented by less than a quarter of the American legislature, and only 16% of municipal leadership position and mayors;
  • Lesbians are discriminated against by "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and restrictive referendums on gay marriage in America.

    Tip of the iceberg. Since I'm guessing reported sexist experiences by 2xC subscribers won't convince you that it's a problem, I invite you to read the Atlas of Women, a wonderful, illustrated compendium of information about the oppression of women. If you're so confident of the "objective truth", you have nothing to lose by trying it.