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I am currently a forth year student at business in university of Edinburgh. My study is to explore the Asian women’s perception, experiences and responses towards sexual harassment in workplace.

Research figures show that more than half of women in the UK have experienced some form of workplace sexual harassment. Sexual harassment can be "jokes" with feminine characteristics, it can be discrimination against women's abilities, it can be racial sexual harassment (i.e Geisha images of Asian Women As women, and Asian women, are doubly underrepresented (race/gender) and their real experiences are largely underrepresented and ignored everywhere.

💪 Therefore, from the perspective of women, I choose the workplace sexual harassment suffered by Asian women as the topic of my undergraduate thesis. I hope that through real stories, more in-depth understanding and for more women, even if only a small voice (minimal effort is an effort).

🌟 If you have or are currently working in the UK with relevant experience or witnessed similar events, I sincerely invite you to join my project and share your experiences, feelings, etc. Interviews can be conducted online or offline, and the time is flexible. Completely anonymous, your story will be treated rigorously and used for academic research only!!

Please leave the comments below or send PM, I will contact you ASAP!!

Hello all, sorry if this is a strange request, but I hoped this would be a good place to ask.

Trigger warning for mentioning harassment!

I recently spoke out about about someone, I provided proof, and the necessary actions were taken.

But men, and people in general, still act weird around me, even if they know I said the truth. It seems like many people avoid me, or act awkward around me now. Like they "could be next" and get "canceled" for looking at me the wrong way. I'm not going to clarify further on why I had to do what I did, because I think you know what I mean.

I want to feel less isolated about what happened and I'm looking for inspirational stories from women who spoke out about any sort of harassment, and persevered even if they faced disbelief and ostracism, it can be experiences from women who're public figures since I'd never ask anyone to go into details about their personal experience, unless they really want to. Specifically I'm looking for women who said themselves that they hoped to encourage others coming forward with their experiences. Thank you

Or as the saying goes where i live.

Once somebody told me "First job in the world was a mother." And i just cant get it out of my head <3

Hi I am posting here, because I think my chances here are pretty high that somebody read the book and understands the context of Margaret Antwood being a feminist writer. So I am reading the Robber bride and there is a passage i don't really understand. It's when roz is on her first date with mitch and it says "[I] told him a joke, the one about the girl who told another girl she'd got raped that summer, yes, and after that it was just rape rape rape all summer long." Is the joke trying to tell she actually enjoyed it or what does it mean? How do you interpret that for Roz's character?

Hi!! I’m writing a paper which compares two feminist texts. One is top girls (not too sure how popular it is so idk how naming it will help much) which is a critique of Thatcherism and subsequently bourgeoise feminism from a socialist feminist view. I’m finding it quite hard to understand what bourgeoise feminism is, as well as socialist feminism. If anyone could help me it’d be really appreciated!!

I have this guy friend that I’ve known since I was a kid. We were chatting about kinks and the whatnot. He told me that he has a r*** fantasy. He said that the porn he watches can’t be like “consensual non consent” that it has to be actual assault. He feels a lot of shame from it and I know people can’t choose their kinks, but this feels like something a lot more. This feels like violence and a deep seated hatred for women. As a result woman, it makes me question our friendship. Any advice is much appreciated

I'm seeing a huge increase in anti-feminism men who claim to be "extremely pro womens equality" except their whole personality is hating feminism.

They go out of their way to constantly shut down and abuse anyone who identifies as feminist. The things I've seen them say and share are very harmful.

"If love to know your opinion on X" - they don't give a damn they just want to gaslight people into thinking their experiences were wrong and that feminism is what's wrong with the world. Threatening women and constantly degrading them. It's sickening.

Hi so I’m completely open to discussion and I apologise if any of this seems ignorant but I just wanted to ask if you can be feminist and support the porn industry? I believe it is an exploitative industry feeding into our objectification and oppression. Of course, many women do this as a last resort and many are trafficked and I don’t want to shame them at all I completely empathise with their positions. My issue is with the fact that men being able to consume this content wires them to view us as objects for their pleasure, translating to women they see outside of porn. From a young age they can watch violent videos and learn to derive pleasure from it which I believe is incredibly dangerous. Many men nowadays go on to replicate this violence in real sex as that is what they have been conditioned to like and I feel like even women are being conditioned to believe that they should like it too. I just believe it is so damaging to both those viewing and producing the content but yet I see women saying things like ‘they’re going to sexualise us anyway might as well profit off it’ when it just makes the problem worse. Like so many women are joining platforms like onlyfans seeing it as ‘empowering’ and I don’t really understand this stance when you are selling yourself to disgusting men who don’t see you as a person and don’t respect women.

I (27, M) have been really disturbed by the way colleagues and people I considered friends have been behaving. Misogynist language seems to be getting more open and more vile, and pushing back against it seems to get harder and harder - to the point where I end up too upset or angry to effectively dispute the lies and hatred that seems to be brainwashing so many people. It's at the point where I'm seriously questioning some relationships I have, and also feeling too disheartened to even try to engage with a lot of the vile stuff I hear other men saying. It's also making me more and more depressed, because society seems to be crumbling purely due to the patriarchy and to insecure, mediocre men desperately, bitterly trying to cling to power. I know it's so important to challenge bigotry and to speak truth to power, but it just feels so hopeless at the moment. I was just wondering if anyone would like to share what they do to keep motivated and stay hopeful during this incredibly dark moment for equality and for culture?

I tend to lurk in this sub and others akin to it to better understand the female perspective of the world and how the world tends to affect them differently than it does me. I do not seek to offend anyone with my ignorance, but while doing so, I've found many articles, comments, and novels that push for the abolition of how we perceive and conceive what families should be and their structure. With this I do not mean as there having to be a "head figure" of the family nor a family having a patriarcal or matriarcal structure but the absence of it.

A world in feminism (or that's what I've seen stated) can only exist by the destruction of this concept because it is not egalitarion and having it be the main object/point of establishing certain roles. Tying you to Abrahamic perspectives/life styles that root X or Y into marriage or the concept of it.

But won't that push for poligamy to be the somewhat defacto way of living? Anyone is free to be poligamous and that is not really the main debate but won't that basically make that someone have a more restricted life in which they will have to fight tooth and nail for their children?

I'm not trying to imply that if I, as a man, had a relationship with someone, I would simply leave. However, if the concept of fatherhood or the choice is not completely his (which I've read plenty of times in subs related to radical feminism, gynarchy, and so on), won’t he simply… leave? What if his commitment is not reciprocated, and the woman has all the say in what their children should do or who they should be with? Won’t that basically set him free of any duties and maybe handle a check each month and continue his life?

What if she wants him to commit, but the structure of the family is utterly different—meaning that he can fall back on this new conception of what a family is and ends up departing? Won’t that make men even more jaded with the system and care less about their sons and daughters?

I honestly fail to see how a couple can work without the commitment of both people to make it succeed. Of course, there are fathers and mothers who raise their children alone, but is this really by choice? Or isn’t it, most of the time, because their beloved ended up departing in some way, forcing them to now live without that person in the equation?

I know my thoughts are not structured in the best way but I hope that the question can be understood.

I've asked all around my school and absolutely no one has heard of her and its confusing the hell out of me.

is she not as well known as she's made out to be? or is my school just an anomaly

We have all heard the stories. Middle aged man, usually with a wife and children, abandon them for a younger woman or even girl. People will talk about their love story travelling around the country or whatever, while the wife will always have to take all the responsibility. He gets to reset while she has to fend for herself. Even when bringing it up, they always say "the girl and him have such a good relationship that lasted long!" Never bringing up the woman and family he destroyed.

Hey all, I was wondering if it's only me who has a sensitivity to all things misogynistic. I often can't get myself to read classics, take white man philosophy seriously or watch shows from the 2000s because of all the bad misogynistic takes and jokes. I can't handle them at all. I mean, logically I know they're a product of their time but it still feels too real to me as someone living in a heavily patriarchal third world country. Although, I can handle racism fine? I can brush off casual racism in media against brown people because I know it's not true but I can't apply the same thing to misogyny. I was wondering if this is something I need to work on?

It wasn’t until I was in college that I realized the whole “men are just naturally better at math and science, women are better at literature” bullshit was categorically false. I didn’t even know what feminism actually was until junior year of high school.

Hello all, as I'm sure most of you know, Women's History Month is coming up next month. I've decided to show my appreciation for women to my best friend. She lives a couple states away from me, unfortunately, so we decided that I would be paying one of her bills. Does anyone have any extra ideas on how to express my appreciation, to go along with that? TIA

Context; I am completing my degree online, and have an internship within my STEM field that has essentially turned into a full time job. Truthfully, I enjoy my job. It’s a great stepping stone into the industry I’ve chosen. Doesn’t pay handsomely, just well enough to get me through the rest of my schooling, but I am very comfortable there and have built great relationships with my coworkers and managers. It is a good resume building job that I will likely move on from once I finish my degree. My boyfriend, who was getting his degree in exercise science, is now trying to get his classes transferred to a general studies degree, as a lot of chiropractic schools require just that as the minimum to apply/get accepted. Our original plan was we would both finish our degrees, and then move together once we were both ready in about a year and some change. But now, he wants to leave this fall, and seems to be heavily expecting me to come with him since “I have my online classes now”. But I’m extremely torn. I don’t want to do long distance. I’ve learned the hard way that it rarely works, especially after being used to being around someone all the time. But I also don’t want to sacrifice the peace I’ve found at my new job and the time I’ve put in. He said it’s “okay” if I don’t want to go with him; I wish I could go with him, but finding a brand new job in my field that pays me the same (with my degree unfinished) would be difficult. I love him so much, but he switched our original plan, I can feel in my heart we wouldn’t do great with long distance, and I’m so hurt. I feel like he wants me to sacrifice my career path/plan so he can fulfill his, although it’s probably not his intention. I’m not sure what to do, or really how to talk to him about how I’m feeling about all of this.

When a possible federal abortion ban was shared online, people were saying to dial your representatives to voice your disapproval. So that is what I did. I used the website 5 calls to contact my representative and my two senators. I urged other pro choice people that I know to do the same.

But abortion is not the only issue that I am concerned about. This presidency has been proposing some frightening things, and I wish more people would become aware that it’s only becoming worse. Another issue that really influenced me to vote is transgender rights. So I looked up who to call about transgender legislation on the 5calls website but it’s the same two senators and representative.

Wouldn’t they see me as less credible if I call to voice my opinion on multiple things? I was really hoping it would recommend me different political officials to call. This is my first time with calling political officials, and I want to be sure that I’m doing it right.

Here is the website for reference:

5calls.org

Hi all, trying to get a bit more educated here as I’m currently involved in a long debate with a friend about whether having a preference for a BBL is considered a form of misogyny or considered degrading to women. This stems from a larger discussion about the ethics/morals of certain rap lyrics and wanted to tap into this community and see what others think about this. I want to flag that I don’t have this preference but struggle to see how rappers that say they prefer this on women is necessarily degrading women in general. Can it not be chalked up to sexual preference that most folks have?