Sexism is Alive and Well in Your Workplace

.... then why do men change their sex to female at three times the rate at which women change their sex to male, if the lot of women is so horrible? Or, more importantly, why do men commit suicide at four or five times the rate women do? Wouldn't one expect the data in these areas (and quite a few others, such as women living half a decade longer than men) to go exactly the other way if what you state were actually true. But nobody cares about men.

Looking at all the men in politics and business and saying men have all the power is as dumb as looking at all the blacks in the fields in the antebellum South and saying blacks had all the cotton. There was a very long period of time in the transition from monarchy to universal suffrage in which 90+% of men weren't allowed to vote. But nobody cares about men, or "the man vote".

DV is only the major cause of injury to women because women are so safe and protected overall, with men being three times more likely to be the victims of violent crime, so maybe women should just choose better guys to date and get involved with. Under your model there is no way a male-predominant legislature such as we have could ever have passed a Violence Against Women Act, while curiously there's no corresponding Violence Against Men Act, even though the latter is demonstrably needed much more. But nobody cares about men.

Sheesh, my Man Card doesn't even give me the privilege of cutting to the front of the checkout line at the grocery store. I'm not sure where it's good for anything.

I suppose that this not being the first time I've encountered arguments like this, that it does weigh on a sore spot and comes out as a bone to pick.

However, my argument stems more from the male vs. female comparison an article like this evokes. The name-calling mentioned like "bitch" and "slut" .. I would agree that I have heard it more from other women than men and in far more public venues without fear of reproach.

But we're about to go off on another tangent all-together, about the strange relationships between women and social acceptance of their overtly pronounced competitiveness and sometimes difficult-to-understand animosity towards each-other. But that's not what we're talking about.

I sensed but subtle man-guilt in the actual article, it was only the author's grandiose presentation of women suffering on the global stage as a counter-argument to my assertion of granting equality equally here, where the argument is actually taking place, that pinched a more sensitive man-vilification nerve I've accustomed to having irritated by media and perceived cultural blame-bias.

In the context of men who have not done this nor plan to, whom I believe are in the majority, my argument was that if you're going to remove all responsibilities attached either through culture or evolution from a sex, then do it to both.

Its easy, you just take a lawyer and pound them like a wooden stake into the heart of the male assumption that all women have a need for them and should be helped, better known as Chivalry, and you pound it until the vampire of millennia-evolved roles of Provider & Child-bearer lies dead on the altar of a civilization that no longer bides to evolutionary pressures of scarcity and omnipresent danger.

As a side-consideration, consider that just like how COPS on TV will never show a video of a crook getting away, even though it happens all the time, it is in the same service of a different monster that you will find no responsibility-giving treatment of women acceptable to a media audience primed for fault-picking the very notion of a "man" to a death of unnecessity. Conversely the same media assault of victim portrayal on women who say they "need" a man too blatantly.

Perhaps we really would be better served by accepting that as men and women, we no longer "need" each-other in any way other than childbearing / rearing and just let the institution evolve entirely into such temporary contracts.

Why have divorce and feel guilty about it anymore? Are we not better off as Americans in our high-consumption state of always wanting more out of our homes, jobs and spouses that we should continue to indulge mentally in our media-fed fantasies of "the right man" and "the right woman" invented for us by ourselves as the better-selling product?

Equal treatment, equal responsibility, equal pay, self-defining material adequacy, admiring purpose in struggle, feeling happiness in contentment.. why that's.. that's.. that's un-American is what that is! If we couldn't convince you that there was a better product available, that would be socialism.

So we'll fault-pick at your men for you, the first, second, and fifth husband/BF around, till you finally believe us that you never needed that self-defined pig who always treated you like he thought you needed him, and that Casanova is just around the corner, and he certainly wont act like you need him.. because how else could we convince you to use our legal services or be addicted to watching the "everything is better than you have" reality show, better known as Mass Media?

For those reading this far, I'd like to thank you for suffering this rant of run-on sentences in place of paragraphs, and hope you were entertained or even made to double-think.

This is an interesting point. I'd like to note that for women it's not just low cut shirts and short skirts, but fitted shirts, patterns, and other stereotypically "feminine" clothing that tends to draw inappropriate comments in the workplace. While I believe women can statistically reduce the number of inappropriate comments by wearing more conservative clothes, it unfortunately does not eliminate them. I have received inappropriate comments while wearing business slacks and a turtle neck at work (pretty much the least "inappropriate" you can get).

I think your point about the social expectation for women to wear the "inappropriate attire" on occasion is also a good one. I hadn't really thought of that before, but I think you are right.

You're right, there is no equivalent in provacative clothing for men. The day a male student worker or employee shows up in crotch clutching "leggings" or "yoga pants/bike shorts" or muscle tees is the day he would be sent home to change.
If women ever want to be perceived as anything other than eye candy, we need to stop dressing like entertainment.