International Women's Day - What changes would you like to see over the next year?

in the western world, just off the top of my head:

- would like men to get get equal treatment in criminal, divorce and custody courts

- would like national healthcare not to spend 8 times more money on women's health than on men's

- would like to see cancer awareness not be focused on women's cancers 99% of the time

- would like to see men get the same social support (depression, homelessness, rape, domestic violence...) as women do, public and private

- would like men not to be 90% of homeless people

- would like men not be 95% of work related injuries and fatalities

- would like women to have to same standards as men in the military, police or the fire service

- would like women not to have quotas in board rooms and other places simply because they happen to be born with a vagina

- would like to stop hearing BBC or politicians emphasize women being killed in war zones as if men are simply farm animals barely worth mentioning

- would like to see the US drone policy not state any male above 16 is a legitimate target in a strike simply because he happens to have a penis


....................... and that's just off the top of my head.

Does the fact there's only one international women's day mean the other 364 days of the year are international men days?

Nope. It just means that this is a specific day for women as the non-dominant group...just like there's black history week but no white history week.

They're both ridiculous to be honest. How can you be seen as equal if you have these?

I think Morgan freeman said it best, just stop talking about it

Those are all great things, but as it's International Women's Day it would be good to focus on things which would help women such as change of laws which allow people to take upskirt photos of unknowing women, ending the sexual harassment that goes on at work, improving films so that equality is shown and that's just a few things.

so women getting sexually harassed is more important than the literally life and death issues i just mentioned concerning men?

so women getting sexually harassed is more important than the literally life and death issues i just mentioned concerning men?

I love how the people commenting women already have equality are men.

Personally, I'd like to see less acceptance of "LAD culture" and sexual harassment such as groping on nights out

You're perfectly free to make a thread about the issues concerning men. But this thread is about women. Why is it that every time we make a thread to discuss our issues, whiney (usually white) men come on saying BUT WHAT ABOUT US?! It's as if we can't even talk about issues affecting us without men trying to hijack it

Agreed, that would be really nice! And alongside that, fewer chants/emails/nights promoting rape would be great (http://o.canada.com/news/ubc-frosh-rape-chant-report-released/ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/universityeducation/10416013/Durham-student-rugby-club-played-game-encouraging-rape-culture.html http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/11/05/oxford-university-rugby-club-free-pussy-email_n_4217694.html)

Maybe for the same reason every time a guy makes a thread about what they find attractive in a partner it gets hijacks by feminists

But that`s not what they were saying, was it? It`s what you wanted them to say.

Yeah, agreed! These nights are disgusting



That's because people keep saying they want their partner to not believe they are equal, which as you could imagine, pisses a lot of people off

Lol, no one even said that

I don't want to derail the threads, but feminism is equality. There are various types of feminists, but if you believe in equality, you are a feminist of a type. If you say you don't want your partner to be a feminist, you are saying you don't want them to believe in equality