So I keep seeing news about women going on strike to show how invaluable their contributions are to the workplace, to society, to the economy, etc.

I feel that the minds behind the strike didn't really think it through.

When millions of people get through their day, have dinner, go to bed, and wake up tomorrow without being inconvenienced in the slightest by the women's strike all it will do is prove the opposite of the point they wanted to make.

I am a supporter of equal rights for all, men, women, black, white, pink, purple, I don't care, equality for all means just that, for all, so please don't think I'm saying that I think, even for a second, that women are unimportant.

But imagine if we had a Day Without Men, a Men's Strike, a day when all the men in the country refused to work. Everything would fall apart. There'd be garbage piling up on the streets, public transport wouldn't be able to run, construction would grind to a halt, law enforcement would practically cease to exist, the military would do the same. What about slaughter houses that produce all the meat we eat? The kitchens filled with underpaid male immigrants?

I'm sorry female Gizmodo writers, no one cares if you don't write for a day. The fact that you have the ability to not go to work for a day without everything going to shit exposes how expendable your position really is. All it does is highlight the dichotomy between true workplace equality and what all the third-wave feminists call equality.

Yes, gender inequality exists, I don't think it should, but historically it has. Men have been ahead in the game for millennia, but at the same time they have been stuck at the very back. Yes, more men hold CEO positions than women, but more men also hold the dirty, overlooked, under appreciated jobs that are the foundation that holds up the rest of society.

Throughout history there have been examples of exemplary women who broke away from the norm and did huge things, who showed that women as a whole are not weak and can do great things. As we march ever forward into the future it is a truly great thing that more and more women are able to rise against any preconceptions that say they should stand by the sidelines of history. But I think it is too easily forgotten that the road that this march of progress, that this march towards equality for all treads upon is paved with the bones of men.