Liz Smith
Liz Smith
Aug 8, 2017 · 2 min read

You see these as unopposable facts. I do not. I agree up to a point that men had to grant the reforms themselves, but I do not agree that men benevolently “did the right thing”. Women did not “work for it” — they fought, they were oppressed, some even died fighting for their basic human rights. No, men do not deserve any cookies for finally coming around and showing women the basic human decency that should have been afforded to them as human beings. The only thing I will concede is that there were men who thought this from the start and stood with us, rather than opposed us at every turn and then grudgingly realized they couldn’t hold back the tide of public opinion.

The rantings of that engineer are something that’s been rehashed throughout time — it’s nothing new. Men have been citing “biological difference” for centuries to justify ill treatment or second class treatment of women because we’re neurotic/irrational/incapable/wired for having babies not the world of work/whatever stupid argument they want to come up with to prove women don’t deserve equality. This guy is just another one in a long line, he’s nothing and nobody new. He just comes across as a whiny baby — “waaaaaa my workplace has changed, it’s no longer the guys’ personal playground and I don’t like it, waaaaaa”. Pretty much every man who opposed advancements in women’s rights, ever. And the antifeminists say it’s the women who are the whiners — this engineer is right up there with the best of them.

Him and anyone else who doesn’t like it can just get over it, because we aren’t going back to the dark ages and the boys’ club has had its day. We are not going back in our meek subservient little boxes.

Liz Smith

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Liz Smith

Writer. Editor. Survivor of life. Mental health worker, counselling student, feminist, bookworm and unashamedly weird. www.wordsceneservices.co.uk

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