We will never be able to stop this and live in peace and safety unless the underlying cause is identified, addressed and fixed : it is a valuing issue. Cultural, institutional. While institutions are slowly changing, cultural value systems that circulate about women in men's circles are not catching up.
We can't solve this.
You have to.
It is a human rights issue.
If you do understand that women are human beings equal to you and treat them as such, please understand it is your duty to circulate and normalise that, and culturally correct misogyny in any form it presents itself among your fellow males.
I'm really sick of this. All women are.
We can see who these people who do not see us equally are. Often it's people who think it isn't them.
It's everywhere.
Culturally males are fed particular messaging about genders that present in their unconscious and conscious behaviour, bias, subjectivity. Please work on yourselves. Even if you think you don't need to. Check your privilege. And when and were you see it in others - CALL IT OUT. THEN AND THERE.
We can't fix a culture we aren't part of. Only you can.
A sign spotted and photographed by me at the Women's March on Washington, January 21, 2017. Today is the 7th anniversary of the march. Since then, we've seen the irretrievable loss of the 14th amendment, which was stolen from us by a Supreme Court with three far-right, radical judges appointed by this moron. If he wins the presidency, we will see our nation go the way of Poland, before Tusk won the election. Despite new centrist leadership, what's being seen there is a struggle to repair democracy after the hatchet job it suffered at the hands of the nationalists. In other words, if Trump wins the presidential race, he will dismantle and rearrange branches of government to suit his need for loyalists and to claim more power for himself. Even if we elect a Democrat after Trump, it will be extremely difficult to undo the damage. It will leave our democracy torn to shreds and pave the way for other extremists to take the reigns.
If you're old enough to vote, REGISTER. After that, VOTE. Please.
January 21st, 2017: Up to five million people participated in over 600 marches in over 160 countries on all seven continents participate in the Women's March.
Prompted by the inauguration of US President Donald Trump the day before, the Women's March remains one of the biggest mass actions in history.