Quotes by Laura Bates

Laura Bates

A compliment makes someone feel good about themselves. A catcall is harassment.

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A huge amount of what feminists are fighting for would have major positive impact for men as well as women. Take the male suicide rate, for example. In part, the problem arises from the idea that men are tough and manly, that ‘boys don’t cry’ and it’s embarrassing for them to talk about their feelings. So men are less likely to reach out for help and support with mental health issues. But that gender stereotype, which exists alongside the converse notion that women are over-emotional, ‘hysterical’, or ‘hormonal’, is one feminists are fighting hard to debunk.

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Suicide

As girls are given dollies and pushchairs while little boys are frowned upon for picking them up; while men are ‘congratulated’ for occasionally ‘babysitting’ their own children and women are castigated for daring to combine motherhood and career; while baby changing facilities are provided in women’s toilets but rarely in the men’s, is it any wonder we tend to take on the roles society stereotypically pushes on us when it comes to caregiving?

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As long as 85,000 women are raped every year and 400,000 sexually assaulted in England and Wales alone, it’s hard to argue that there isn’t a problem. Not to mention the fact that fewer than 1/3 of our MPs are female, that women write only 1/5 front page newspaper articles, that they’re less than 1/10 of engineers and that 54,000 a year lose their jobs as a result of maternity discrimination… to name but a tiny sample of issues. It’s not ‘going too far’ to demand equality, and we’re certainly not there yet.

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Feminism doesn’t mean hating pink, make-up and high heels!

Hate

High Heels

Mean

Feminism means believing that everybody should be treated equally regardless of their sex. Which happens to include the right to wear whatever you want, for your own reasons, without being forced or pressured into wearing what’s considered societally required because of your sex.

Believe

Mean

Sex

If you think quotas mean the best person not getting the job, you have to believe that the best person always gets the job at the moment. Do you really believe there are more than three times more men named John qualified to lead FTSE 100 companies in the UK than all the women put together? All the 32 MILLION women combined? Just statistically, that doesn’t make sense.

Believe

Jobs

Mean

If your compliments are making women feel uncomfortable, scared, anxious, annoyed or harassed, you’re probably not doing them right.

Annoyed

Compliment

Scared

In order to achieve that end goal of equality it is a very gendered oppression primarily affecting women that needs to be tackled.

Goal

Needs

Order

In the 21st Century, I’d like to think women have the right to live lives free of both sexual violence and daily harassment, as well as any other form of inequality.

Live Life

Thinking

Violence

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Quotes by Laura Bates

Laura Bates

A compliment makes someone feel good about themselves. A catcall is harassment.

Feminism doesn’t mean hating pink, make-up and high heels!

Feminism means believing that everybody should be treated equally regardless of their sex. Which happens to include the right to wear whatever you want, for your own reasons, without being forced or pressured into wearing what’s considered societally required because of your sex.

If your compliments are making women feel uncomfortable, scared, anxious, annoyed or harassed, you’re probably not doing them right.

In order to achieve that end goal of equality it is a very gendered oppression primarily affecting women that needs to be tackled.

In the 21st Century, I’d like to think women have the right to live lives free of both sexual violence and daily harassment, as well as any other form of inequality.

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