Women's "Equality" Month

SwanOfAvon22 · 2014-08-12T17:56:58+00:00

Women have better verbal and can communicate better than most men.

Sounds about right

effin-d · 2014-08-12T17:39:03+00:00

Feel free to mock the misspelling of 'women' in the ninth card.

As I walked into my company's break room yesterday, I saw these hanging from the ceiling. I like being able to pay my rent too much to say where, but it's a major American company.

I was not a fan of these at all just because of the way that they were written. When asked about it, the women in the room at the time kept on saying that they "highlight our strengths." Maybe, but they do it at the clear expense of men.

Oddly enough, as I was getting worked up about it, the other men there were also starting to take offense to it as well & the commotion carried on all day. It seems I inadvertently started an inter-office gender war. Heh.

In response to an informal request to take them down from the HR person who was present, the woman who put them up said, "He can just deal with it."

faptoairplanes · 2014-08-12T17:48:33+00:00

Because equality now = "here are all the reasons I'm better than you and if you don't accept them you hate all women". Oooookay

dejour · 2014-08-12T17:56:35+00:00

Some of those are actually points that we want to drive home:

women are far less likely to die via violent crime
women live longer than men
women can express their emotions more freely than men
men open doors, carry heavy packages, let women go first and pay for dates

If people think that those are true and it should change towards equality then that's men's rights.

BTW, I think the "women can handle more pain" is an old wive's tale. It's a tough thing to measure, but research indicates that men will handle more pain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pain_tolerance

Clinical studies by the journal of Psychosomatic Medicine found that "men had higher pain thresholds and tolerances and lower pain ratings than women" when exposed to cold pressor pain.[3] The study asked participants to submerge their hands in ice water (the cold pressor pain procedure) and told members of the experimental group (as opposed to the control group) that they would be compensated financially for keeping their hand submerged.[4] Suggested explanations for this difference include that "men are more motivated to tolerate and suppress expressions of pain because of the masculine sex role, whereas the feminine sex role encourages pain expression and produces lower motivation to tolerate pain among women."

RedialNewCall · 2014-08-12T19:51:14+00:00

This is more of a list of female privileges than anything else...

blueoak9 · 2014-08-12T20:24:57+00:00

Those are all just female chauvinism.

The one about being able to bear more pain is especially ludicrous. tell that to Iraq War burn victims.

The one about multi-tasking? Tell that to military officers.

The one about creating new life? They should have been a little less smoked up in high school biology class.

And so on.

DavidByron2 · 2014-08-12T17:51:15+00:00

The idea that women communicate better is a joke. Women are far worse communicators because they generally just assume that whoever they are talking to must have psychic powers and the burden is on them to just know what the woman wants. When this tactic fails they blame the other party (usually a man) as having poor communication skills.

Ransom_Stoddard · 2014-08-12T21:01:54+00:00

Women can go without water and food for slightly longer, because they retain so much fat and water, but they can't survive longer than a man in survival situations. Men generally know how to trap, hunt, know what plants are edible, build shelter, build fire and obtain and filter potable water better/more than women do.

Women are not far less likely to die in a violent crime. It's that women do not have violent crime visited upon them as often as men, so there would be no/few violent crimes for them to survive. When talking survival rates for violent crimes, I believe it is fact that a higher percentage of women victims dies than men victims of said violent crimes... so it would be worded, "women are less likely to be the victim of a violent crime in which they would die."

Women cannot multitask better than men.

Men and women can create a new life every 9 months together equally. Women can't do it alone. A man must be involved.

Women cannot communicate better than men logically, reasonably and rationally. They certainly talk a lot, but that is not ability to communicate. It's want and desire. I believe the overwhelming vast majority of government representatives and business management are men who communicate better than women, and the communication around the home speaks for itself.

Men can choose to express their emotions just as much as women, but we choose not to because there is no point to whimsical emotion unless its required for a mission specific task. Emotion has no place in logic and decision making.

The chivalry is fast coming to an end, so they better enjoy it while they can.

I agree women guess a lot and mostly guess wrong - that intuitiveness based on what one feels to be true even without conscious reasoning.

Babies prefer contact with the parent it knows the best. Women sit at home with their babies while the man busts his ass working. Let the Dad be home equally taking care of the child and the child would want both mom and dad. I took vacation when my first child was born and she had no preference unless she was hungry and going for one of her moms titties, but that is conditioning and hunger.

Ask any cop, husband or boyfriend how well women handle stress. Ask any man that is fighting for his life on a battlefield or the streets.

Women cannot handle pain as well as men.

Women did not get the vote on an equal basis with men. They got it for free. Men did not. men had to lay their lives on the line to defend this nation to get the vote, or sign up for conscription.

5th_Law_of_Robotics · 2014-08-12T22:07:26+00:00

What sort of disconnect has to occur in your head to think "celebrate women's equality by declaring female supremacy!".

2014-08-12T20:01:38+00:00

So what this is basically saying is women contribute very little other than being a C host for the next generation of men...

Crackerjacksurgeon · 2014-08-12T22:20:43+00:00

"have better verbal and"

Lol.

Also, most of these are functions of biology and by implication, men are better at everything else.

2014-08-13T00:14:14+00:00

Women can handle more pain than men

I've not once heard this claimed before outside of pregnancy, in which case, the raging hormones assist with it.

In fact, I've only read studies that showed men, on average, have a higher pain tolerance.

Bynnar · 2014-08-12T21:17:19+00:00

Wome [sic] are more intuitive than men...

Congratulations are being less logical, great thing you got going there. I think I'll just stick to my "manly" evidence and reason.

EDIT: Also that one about "stress" is garbage. Stress is mostly an imaginary term that marketers use to sell things to you.

2014-08-12T19:38:49+00:00

Sounds like rah rah sis boom bah stuff. Meaningless drivel, but remarkably indicative of how a fallacious concept catches on when it "feels right". lol

AuMielEtAuxNoix · 2014-08-13T02:12:51+00:00

Do they know what "equality" even means?

cyrus233 · 2014-08-13T02:29:45+00:00

"Women can express their emotions more freely than men" Yeah, because you don't get told to man and up in general be ridiculed when you express them, you cunt.

khal534 · 2014-08-12T21:48:05+00:00

First , these are the WORST example of Women's Equality. No where did equality come into play here, just some dumb person/s posting random shit that makes them feel better. Talk to anybody above HR, and tell them how BS it is. Number 8 is when, i was like "this bitch here, is dumb". Did she just literally contradict her ownself.

warspite88 · 2014-08-12T23:14:58+00:00

the mentality of the woman that put these up is almost child like, it is so adolescent and petty how they are written. it is like a 14 year old girl poking at a boy going neener neener haha. it is women with minds like this that are a part of the problem in our country.

a man (or anti stupidity woman) has every right to rip these down or tell someone at HR they are offensive and you refuse to work while they are up, they have to take them down or they face a lawsuit for harrassment and discrimination.

it may seem petty to want them removed but i sure wouldnt want to have to do my job in an 8th grade classroom full of girls making jokes about boys. you shouldnt have to work in that environment either.

these signs have nothing to do with equality for women, they are a sign of immaturity and stupidity.

Sinistar_Lives · 2014-08-12T23:36:41+00:00

that one about men being stronger and paying for dates doesn't really seem to fit the motif...or are they just bragging about the special treatment they get???

not a goddamn thing about this seems to have anything to do with equality

thaloopdigga · 2014-08-12T23:37:59+00:00

wow all of those things are offensively sexist

Arakin · 2014-08-13T05:30:16+00:00

"Women have better verbal." Lol.

AloysiusC · 2014-08-13T08:10:42+00:00

There's an equality day - just for women.

Not even going to bother with yet another Orwell quote.

kungfukai · 2014-08-13T13:43:09+00:00

Women can express their emotions more freely than men.

I wonder why that is hmm?

Maybe it's because men aren't allowed by society to express their emotions and are taught to hide them from an early age.

Endless_Summer · 2014-08-12T22:31:40+00:00

I want to see a woman produce life in nine months.... That's amazing!

chiguy440 · 2014-08-12T22:50:52+00:00

I don't even get this.. What is the point?

hotsizzlepancakes · 2014-08-13T03:55:28+00:00

If i saw that in my office, and i work for a major American company, I'd be live tweeting it to twitter ASAP. Then I'd take pictures and video of every woman that walked in there, make a montage, with the companies name in the title, and post it to youtube, then be relentless in spreading it to various media outlets.

I would work profit in there some how.

2014-08-13T04:52:59+00:00

So celebrating that men are more likely to die from violence...celebrating the victim is equality? What?

Shouldn't surprise, Zoe Quinn of Depression quest has no issue with herself or her fans telling anyone who won't agree with her to kill themselves but happily garners sympathy for being the only victim of the worst thing ever in existance when the same happens to her.

GenderNeutralLanguag · 2014-08-13T05:42:52+00:00

I think it's a great idea to celebrate women getting the right to vote. There is nothing wrong with "Women's Equality Day". But dear lord who ever wrote the cards needs to get their head check. "Women are better" is not a message of equality!!!!

a0i · 2014-08-13T06:25:06+00:00

Where does this "women can handle more pain than men" just-so saying come from (e.g. the last photo)? It's demonstrably untrue, but not like you needed science to tell you.

speedisavirus · 2014-08-13T06:28:58+00:00

A few of those should have been ripped down on sight...gender is a protected class in the US.

arkindal · 2014-08-13T09:00:29+00:00

On a side note, men can focus on a specific task much better than women, while it IS true that women can multitask better than us.

Women can express emotions freely? Yes of course, because we are brain washed that way, if we express our feelings we are weak, it's not our DNA, it's how society brain wash us.

Women can create new life in 9 months... With a little help from a man's seed.

THIS crap? Guess why? Yep, society brain washing, again.

This one is just plain bull.

Women have better verbal... But of course. Ok well this one was more of a joke, but seriously, no, your verbal depend by your education.

Women can handle more pain than men... I think it's partially true, depending by the source of pain. I THINK women can handle pain coming from the inside better while men can handle pain coming from the outside better, because our bodies evolved that way, women's bodies are made to give birth, they HAVE to handle that pain but I guess in the same way men have to handle pain caused by fighting because guess who society sent to war all this time.

But yeah sure, let's turn an occasion to celebrate a step forward to equality by saying "WOMEN ARE SUPERIOR!". Good going.

EDIT: Fixing things and stuff.

steviewigs · 2014-08-13T17:00:28+00:00

I realize I'm a bit late to the party, but something caught my eye.

There is a card that says "women can create life in 9 months". Umm all by yourselves? Without sperm from a man there is no life. It takes two to tang, as they say. So you've got to have sperm and an egg. Whether it's done traditionally, i.e. sex, or artificially, women cannot just "create life in nine months".

Yes, the female body houses, nurtures, and helps develop life, but it does not create it.

LDM312 · 2014-08-12T21:20:35+00:00

Hey I'm all for equality. Every person is equal in my eyes. I just want absolute equality

Jonathan_Taylor · 2014-08-13T09:05:13+00:00

Can we get a source for where this is?

HugoWeaver · 2014-08-13T12:54:08+00:00

So these cards are all about "Equality" yet mention acts of chivalry and men paying for their dates? That's a contradiction and a half right there.

BenderB-Rodriguez · 2014-08-13T15:52:40+00:00

If these got displayed around my work I would go straight to HR and demand they be taken down because they are incredibly sexist and offensive to men.

stop_stalking_me · 2014-08-13T19:32:33+00:00

I don't think equality means what they think it means.

2014-08-13T21:26:06+00:00

8 Pissed me right the fuck off. Our gender is socially obligated to work harder and provide in relationship, and that snob has the gall to brag about it as if we're inferior because of what society forces us to do. Shit like this is exactly why I think dating is bullshit.

TracyMorganFreeman · 2014-08-14T01:00:31+00:00

Women can live longer...

Well women have more fat and slower metabolisms and lower caloric needs. You could say the same about children.

Women are less likely to die in a violent crime than men

So maybe we should focus on reducing violence against men...

Women can multitask better than men can

Largely a myth, as both men and women have greatly diminished performance of tasks when multitasking, so multitasking isn't even preferred.

Women live longer than men

Yes they do, largely because they get more support and protection, primarily from men.

Women can create new life in 9 months

It was alive well before that, and it isn't new without a second haploid gamete, from a man.

Women have better verbal...

They're certainly more likely to verbally continually claiming as such.

Women can express their emotions more freely than men

Maybe we should work on helping men in that regard then...

Men hold open doors...

Is there a word for being proud of one's infantilization?

Women are more intuitive than men are.

There are many kinds of intuition. Spatial reasoning is a form of it, and men are better.

Then again it seems like a weak thing to have a contest over.

Babies prefer female contact...

Maybe babies that have been kept from their male loved ones or told how horrible they are.

Women can handle stress better than men can

Or society supports women in times of stress more readily than it does for men.

Women can handle more pain than men

Completely false. Women have more pain receptors, a lower pain threshold and lower pain tolerance than men.

granting the vote to women throughout the country on the equal basis with men.

Except the voting age was 21, and men were drafted at age 18 for at least 3 wars before 1971.

Passed designating August 26 each year as Women's Equality Day

The 19th amendment was passed on September 30 1919, and ratified August 18, 1920. Not quite an anniversary.

Oy, over 40 years and don't have the date right? Has to be because the 18th is something else already.

2014-08-19T11:24:11+00:00

Dude where the fuck does the whole "multitasking" thing come from? Almost everyone I know believes this but I've never seen any studies on it and when ever I ask why people hold on to this belief so strongly they always cite some mundane bullshit like the fact that women can cook while speaking on the phone, like that was some sort of special skill.

SpawnlingMan · 2014-08-12T21:09:12+00:00

So why didnt women discover electricity, invent the telephone, invent the aircraft, or better yet.... ask a woman if they are responsible for any simple thing.... a dishwasher, iron, microwave, automobiles, trains, televisions, video gaming, cameras.... i'll just stop.

Title	Women's "Equality" Month
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8 Pissed me right the fuck off. Our gender is socially obligated to work harder and provide in relationship, and that snob has the gall to brag about it as if we're inferior because of what society forces us to do. Shit like this is exactly why I think dating is bullshit.