I know it’s still the morning, Bros, but crack on a beer, lean back in your chair, and un-fucking-wind, because we have earned it.
The eons-long practice — ingrained and entrenched in our society — of mistreating, disrespecting, and devaluing women is over. There is no more sexism in the world.
And it’s all thanks to us. How? Because we just said so.
How could you not see it, though? Just look at what 2016 is like for women. Women are allowed to have careers (where they are still routinely sexually harassed and paid less money for equal work), they can leave the house (where they are often subjected to the unwanted advances of lecherous men), and they can run for public office (where even their most basic actions are given the kind of unwarranted scrutiny most men couldn’t ever comprehend).
It’s like a fucking cush dream.
From The Washington Post:
More than half of men in the United States think sexism is over, according to a new survey from the Pew Research Center. Asked whether women face significant obstacles in the workplace and beyond, 56 percent say they no longer do, compared to 41 percent who say the barriers persist.
What about women, though? What do they think?
Most women in the national sample of roughly 4,600, however, say discrimination still makes their lives harder — 63 percent, while 34 percent say otherwise.
So men, who have never experienced sexual discrimination by virtue of their being male, think there’s no such thing. But women, who have, say it does exist.
Hmmmm. The statement that launched 1,000 thinking face emojis.
I don’t know what to think? But researchers have a theory. Since literally no thanks to us, women have forced men to stop being overtly sexist all the time, many men think it’s completely gone. Out of sight, eradicated. I have not touched my secretary’s butt ever, therefore, sexism does not exist.
The Pew respondents, [Peter Glick, a social sciences professor] said, might be equating sexism with behavior rampant in the Mad Men era: groping at work, the near-universal presence of men in upper roles, a woman’s inability to obtain a credit card without her husband’s signature.
“They might be thinking about the more overt or obvious forms of sexism,” he said, “but it comes out today in subtle, insidious ways. Look at the top of the hierarchy in just about anything and it looks more like the ’50s than a lot of people understand.”
But today’s not a day to worry about that. Today is a day to celebrate our good deeds.
Go men. Go men, indeed.
[H/T @manymanywords]