08 March 2006

international women's day (aka blog against sexism day)

I would like to think that women today are finally considered free and equal adults. But some people go out of their way to prove me wrong.

South Dakota has banned abortion, effectively ensuring that a bunch of men can control what a woman does with her ova. Several other states are trying to follow suit to build their backward, testosterone-run country. Undoubtedly the work of lobbyists from South Dakotan coathanger corporations.

Human Rights Watch reports that rape victims in Mexico are denied access to legal abortions and subjected to routine humiliation and insult. Of course, that's because women are just asking to be raped, yeah of course.

Even when European women do better in school than men, they will get lower pay and fewer top jobs. Screw school. My A won't beat your C because I have eggs and I might have children, so I'll take my maternity leave, triple the workload of my colleagues and lower productivity.

The UN has actually posted a world classification table of the number of women in parliament. Top on the list? Rwanda. Singapore is at #66 while USA is at #69 and France is at #84. In fact, a grand total of 13 African nations and 6 Middle Eastern countries rank ahead of the US - land of the free! The 6 female heads of state of our time belong to Ireland, Latvia, Finland, Philippines, Liberia and Chile. That's cos we're emotional and thus incapable of rational decision-making. After all, we don't want an actual thinking, feeling person in charge of a nation do we??

When can we live in a world where the mere possession of testicles and a penis cannot justify such disparity?

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