Modern Feminism is Not Needed in America

Wage gap: They updated the Paycale link it seems. It used to be 7% unexplained rather than 2.4%. Where are you getting the margin of error of 4%? Glassdoor listed the paygap at 5.4% - https://www.glassdoor.com... Washington post lists the pay gap at 8% - https://www.washingtonpost.com... These consider job title, hours’ work, background, experience, and many other factors to compare apples to apples. The 79% number you mention does NOT take those considerations into account, and is therefore dishonest. However, if you believe there is any wage gap, then you should admit a need for feminism in America. Equal opportunity As previously stated I’m not going to defend the 79% claim because it’s dishonest to do so. On the matter of equality I will bring up management positions though. Only 25 companies in the fortune 500 have women CEOs. That’s roughly 5% where it should be ten times that number. Obviously, they do not have the same opportunities, there is a need for feminism in America. http://fortune.com... Rape: In the other argument, I said 1 in 5, but if we are going to be fair the number is 18.3% of women versus 1.4% of men. https://www.cdc.gov... This data is from the CDC, and it is based on “with their lifetime”. The Bureau of Justice stat you are using is “annually”. This has nothing to do with unreported cases or a 20 to 30% increase, you are comparing yearly stats to lifetime stats in an attempt to skew the data in your favor but even if we use your annual rape stat we can still see that women are raped three times more than men. Thanks for supporting my argument that there is a need for feminism in America. Again, it looks like I need to state I did NOT say there was a rape “culture”. At no point, have I said that rape is trivialized. Please stop attempting to strawman my argument into something I did not say. Female representation: Although I feel like sexualization is an issue, I don’t feel like it’s nearly as strong of an issue as the disparity of body types. Women tend to come in only one shape and size while men enjoy a wide range. I won’t go into that though as I have plenty of other well supported points, and it’s difficult to find research data on the mono-body type issue women face. https://seejane.org... On the point of less female writers. I agree and I’m glad you are supporting my argument that there is a need for feminism in America. https://www.theguardian.com... https://www.aboutfreelancewriting.com... Women do tend outnumber men on mobile, but then again they are more female friendly. But women also outnumber mean in RPGs. Men nearly double women in MMO and FPS though. https://www.engadget.com... So even if I take it that the problem is women don’t like those video games, the same problem exists in games they do like. So, although in the MMO and FPS they don’t spend an equal share of the market they still constitute a major percentage of the player base. The problem is not that women aren’t interested so much as they are not welcome, and harassed whenever they do it. https://www.superdataresearch.com... In conclusion, there is sexism demonstrated in all 4 of these topics. Women do not get equal pay, they do not have equal opportunity, they are raped more, and they are underrepresented in movies and games even by his own words, he just justifies it by saying there are more males than females playing games. Well duh, that’s because there are five times more male main characters than female. Do you want to play a game were what you want to play isn’t even an option? http://www.radford.edu... Women are not treated equally, represented equally, paid equally, or given equal opportunities therefore feminism is necessary in America. Further points Feminism is both a concept and a movement. As with any movement it will have extremist in that movement. Defining the movement by those extremist is called the composition fallacy, and it does not define the movement. Feminism has been under MAJOR attack. Although 82% of Americans want equality between the sexes which is feminism, because of these attacks only 20% are willing to declare themselves as feminists. They label them things like third wave feminist and belittle the equality they want because it’s not as big a deal as the strides for equality they have already achieved. But the core of it is this, 82% of Americans are feminists because they want equality between the sexes. Stop bullying them, they will be more willing to play with you, and the number will grow.