100 Easy Ways to Make Women's Lives More Bearable

Vice ^ | March 8, 2018 | Dani Beckett

[C19fan]

Every year, I wake up on March 8 to a flurry of tweets from men wishing me a “Happy International Women’s Day!”

And every year, I find myself thinking: Well, thanks, but is that it? Is that all the support for gender equality that you can muster? For the entire year? It’s a nice sentiment, but at a time when the gender pay gap means that women in the UK work for free for 67 days each year, Black women in the US are three to four times more likely to die in childbirth than white women, and trans women in the US are four times more likely to be murdered than cis women, it doesn’t quite do it for me.

[C19fan]

I think if you do the exact opposite of every item on the list you will be doing good. How does a real women feel when #3 and #4 on the list have nothing to do with real women:

3. Trans women are women. Repeat that until you perish.

4. RESPECT PEOPLE’S PRONOUNS. It’s not hard.

[C19fan]

7. Be kind to women in customer service positions. Tip them extra. (But not in a creepy way.)

The irony it burns. Almost all the perpetrators of service people being treated like crap are women.

[tet68]

Is that all the support for gender equality that you can muster? For the entire year?

You had no interaction with me for a year, what more
do you want?

[mewzilla]

My list:

#1 Get local, state, and federal governments the heck off my back.

#2 thru #100: See no.1

[C19fan]

8. Trust women. When they teach you something, don't feel the need to go and check for yourself. And especially do not Google it in front of them.

Women are perfect and infallible.

[SMARTY]

Righto!

At work, in social settings, ... the worst treatment I ever experienced in my life was from other women.

At work especially, they LOVE playing God with your life, if you are their subordinate.... even if you are not!

[C19fan]

9. Don’t maintain a double standard for… anything, ever.

I guess this writer was not around when Slick Willie was POTUS.

[Jolla]

1. Before explaining something to a woman, ask yourself if she might already understand. She may know more about it than you do.

You mean like this list?

[BookmanTheJanitor]

#101 - Don’t work at VICE (they’ve had multiple people fired for sexual harassment/assault)

[brownsfan]

1. Fix me a sammich and bring me a beer.
2. Pipe down.

[Little Ray]

How about “End Islam.”

[brownsfan]

1. Fix me a sammich and bring me a beer.
2. Pipe down.

[C19fan]

22. How much of what you are watching/reading/listening to was made by women? Gender balance your bookcase.

Does Jane Austen, Bronte sisters, and George Eliot count? I enjoy their work for their own sake not because of their gender.

[C19fan]

23. Feeling proud of your balanced bookcase? Are there women of color there? Trans, queer, and disabled women? Poor women? Always make sure you’re being intersectional.

I read stuff because the topic or work interests me. Not because they check off some grievance group list.

[warsaw44]

7. Be kind to women in customer service positions. Tip them extra. (But not in a creepy way.)

Yeah, right. Who will define what ‘ creepy ‘ even means?

Treat EVERYONE in customer service positions politely. That’s pretty basic. And quite frankly, the cheapest tippers, most patronizing towards customer service people I have ever seen are liberals.

Friends who are married to liberals, extreme liberal jerks I have worked with, barely tolerable clients who are liberals - been exposed to far too many. Their treatment of people is dreadful unless they think the person can do some thing for them or enhance their professional life or social standing.

[C19fan]

24. Don't buy media that demeans women’s experiences, valorizes violence against women, or excludes them entirely from a cast. It's not enough to oppose those things. You have to actively make them unmarketable.

I guess will have to stop watching "Lawrence of Arabia" , almost all war movies and "Shawshank Redemption".

[C19fan]

24. Don't buy media that demeans women’s experiences, valorizes violence against women, or excludes them entirely from a cast. It's not enough to oppose those things. You have to actively make them unmarketable.

I guess will have to stop watching "Lawrence of Arabia" , almost all war movies and "Shawshank Redemption".

[PGR88]

I suggest men go to Russia, China or Brazil to find a mate. There are just too many angry, psycho, political feminists in the USA today, like the author of this article, to make it worthwhile wading through the cultural-marxist slop to find a partner.

[C19fan]

27. Watch women's sport. And just call it “sports.”

Does ladies figure skating count?

[Gamecock]

trans women in the US are four times more likely to be murdered than cis women, it doesn’t quite do it for me.

Maybe trans people should stop hanging out with people who go around murdering people.