10. Men in Jerusalem beat a woman for not sitting in the back of the bus. People blamed her for not “knowing her place”.
9. In the US, a man rapes a woman every 6 minutes, and it is still so taboo to talk about who does all the raping that this ongoing crime against women by men is euphemistically referred to by saying “a woman is raped every 6 minutes”. By what? The sun? The moon? Marshmallows? No – by men. But people are so afraid of men they don’t even want to say that, even though men are over 99% of all rapists.
8. Man tries to electrocute his wife because she wanted a divorce. Gee, I can’t imagine why she would have wanted to leave such an awesome dude.
7. Man goes around murdering members of the class of women forced into sexual slavery to men to earn a living (prostitutes); male police response? To tell them (and other women) not to go outside, because men expect women to live under house arrest for the “crime” of being female.
6. 800,000 humans are sold into sexual slavery every year. Despite the neutral tone of the article which says the sex slaves are “women, children and men” the vast majority are women and female children, and virtually all of the slave owners are men. The quibbling point of this article? To try to get people to stop using the shiny happy “sex positive” propaganda term “sex worker” to describe these KIDNAPPED SLAVES.
3. Armed man in Phoenix is serially raping little girls in who live in low income housing.
2. In India, virulent misogyny and the knowledge that a daughter will have no future have led to widespread female infanticide and sex selective abortions performed to prevent female fetuses from being born, at the rate of SEVEN THOUSAND PER DAY.
1. While women’s educational and professional credentials continue to climb, the wage gap between men and women remains firmly in place. Men own the companies and sign the checks, and they sure aren’t going to pay a woman fairly for her labor.
