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Okay, since this came up let me reiterate what the point of the debate was.

When a lot of women said that they preferred the bear, men should _not_ interpret this as an "attack" on them personally, or men in general.

Instead, it simply reflects the fact that women have to evaluate their personal safety in entirely different ways than men. Random male strangers are, statistically speaking, far more dangerous to women than random female strangers are to men. Yes, most men are perfectly safe, but there are enough exceptions that women cannot pretend that they are not out there.

In other words, women have different life experiences than men when it comes to personal safety. (Well, duh!)

And the _sensible_ thing for us men would be to accept that having life experiences that differ from our own does not make them invalid.

Instead of, you know, treating …

For those of you interested in the gender pay gap (which I'm assuming is most of you/us), here is the data for the countries of the EU.

For comparison in the UK (expressed differently) the GPG is around 13% which, would make it in these terms around 87% of male pay (the UK figure is the median pay rate for both genders).

To say this is a problem that still requires work would be an understatement


Chart: Whats does a woman earn compared to a man; While a man earns 100& a women earns: [slected lines] EU average - 88% Luxembourg - 100.9% Italy - 92.8% Spain - 90.8% France - 87.8% Germany - 82.4% Austrai - 81.7%

Date: 21/03/2025
Location: Lorrainebad, Bern

The Slogan: Macht aus dem Staat Gurkensalat (in its orginal Swiss German version: Machet usem Staat Gurkesalat) [Turn the state into cucumber salad] from the 80ies is transformed into a feminist message: Macht aus dem Patriarchat Gurkensalat [Turn the patriarchy into cucumber salad].

Patriarchy is still one of the fundamental structural problems in our societies. It remains the breeding ground for sexist thinking and the blueprint for power from the top down. We have not managed to smash it, yet already we see this massive anti-feminist backlash from without – and within like from the tiktoked hipsterification of tradwifes or TERFs or many other forms of "enemy feminisms" > Sophie Lewis newest book: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2440-enemy-feminisms

Photo description: A wooden wall with some grafiti on the left with a pathway next to the river on the right is a feminist collage pasted that reads: MACHT AUS DEM …

A wooden wall with some grafiti on the left with a pathway next to the river on the right is a feminist collage pasted that reads: MACHT AUS DEM PATRIARCHAT GURKENSALAT [translates to: Turn the patriarchy into cucumber salad]

A proposed new law in Texas, by Republican Tom Oliverson, would make it illegal in that state to identify as trans, which he's calling "Gender Identity Fraud." The law would punish people who identify as trans with up to two years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

Probably not long before Trump tries to do the same on a federal level. Whoops, he kinda already did with passports.
And with his illegal transferring of trans women prisoners into male prisons, in violation of several court orders. There are already reports of sexual assaults against these women.

Remember, first they came for the trans folks, and undocumented immigrants, and people didn't speak up because they weren't one of them.

Then they came for documented immigrants and those with legal residency because they spoke out against the Genocide in Gaza; as well as cis women of color, because they didn't conform to …

Number of bathroom assaults by trans and nonbinary people = 0

Percentage of trans & nonbinary youth assaulted in bathrooms = 17.6-27%.

Bathroom bans & potty policing are an attack on trans and nonbinary people AND on women, particularly women of color, who don't fit the white, bourgeois ideals of femininity.

(https://www.mic.com/articles/114066/statistics-show-exactly-how-many-times-trans-people-have-attacked-you-in-bathrooms)

(https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8849575/)

Today in Labor History March 8, 1911: The first modern International Women’s Day was celebrated in Austria, Denmark, Switzerland, Germany and the U.S. IWD has its roots in the suffrage movement of New Zealand, and leftist labor organizing in the U.S. and Europe. The earliest Women’s Days were organized by the Socialist Party of America, in New York, in 1909, and by German socialists in 1910. They chose the date of March 8 in honor of the garment workers strikes in New York that occurred on March 8, in 1857 and 1908. However, the first IWD celebrated on March 8, the current date, was in 1911. The holiday was associated primarily with far-left movements until the feminist movement adopted it in the 1960s, when it became a more mainstream celebration.

German poster for International Women's Day, March 8, 1914.[a] This poster was banned in the German Empire. It depicts a woman waving a long banner. By Karl Maria Stadler (1888 – nach 1943) - Scan from an old book, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6372383

Emily F. Gorcenski

The time of cowards is coming. Not winter. An army of silent slippers is on the rise, ready to angrily snap back at you if you show them what they don't want to see, nor want to feel compelled to care about, before turning their back on you, grumbling about those snowflake spoilt kids who have never experienced pain and troubles but think they can critisize anything coming from your time...

https://emilygorcenski.com/post/the-time-of-cowards/

Very comfy pairs of swiss slippers, blue with a small patch on the side representing the Swiss flag.

Trump says his attacks on trans people and "gender ideology" are to protect women (by which he means cis women). Yet he also mandates that government agencies, like NASA, remove all words that reference diversity, including "women in leadership." And, of course, women's health and bodily autonomy, are targeted, too.

Trump doesn't care about women. He's attacking all women and all bodily autonomy.

A goose with a spiked choker, blue boots, and a trans flag in its mouth. Reads: if you don't fight for all women, then you stand for no women.