The 5 Worst Places To Be A Woman…
By: April Hawkins, Ask A Bitchface
Tags: Rape, Feminism, Equality, Female Empowerment

The 5 Worst Places To Be A Woman…

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We like to believe that, as women, overall, we have really kicked a dent in this life. We’re getting shit done, we’re narrowing the wage gap, we’re just as educated as our male counterparts.

We can own property, vote, get a divorce, obtain custody of our children, work in essentially any field we choose, and study in those fields as well. We’re a real bunch of go getters, us Western women.

However, don’t pat yourself on the back just yet. We are still a far cry from equality. Here, in the Western world, we enjoy almost every freedom that a man has. But, there are some places that are simply hell to experience, and some not even worth getting off of the damned plane if you’re a woman.

We’re still being raped, beaten, tortured, forced into marriage, and ordered around by our male counterparts in many places. However, there are a few that just really roll my damned stomach with their lack of chivalry.

So, before I start an international incident with my opinions of these shitholes, let’s get to the damned countdown.

5. Yemen

52% of girls are married before the age of 18. In addition, the literacy rate for women is just at 35%. That’s in addition to the fact they can’t get a divorce, or be awarded child custody. But, that’s really the small shit. If we’re going to talk about Yemen, can we say that women are discouraged from getting so much as a simple identification card?

Why should they though? They can’t go anywhere, they can’t work, they can’t honestly do much other than be married off and forced to breed. Well, there’s always dying in childbirth to look forward to. 6 women in Yemen do so every single day.

4. Egypt

80% of young women, aged 15–18, have experienced female genital mutilation.

Let me run that back really quickly. 80%. Female genital mutilation.

What in the actual fuck is taking place over there? Ooh, ooh, pick me I know. They’re actually working on a law that allows men to have sex with their dead wifes bodies for up to 6 hours after their death.

Yeah. You gotta fucking be kidding me.

3. The Democratic Republic of Congo

In 2011, 2 million women had been raped in the Democratic Republic of Congo. 70% of women there think a man can be “justified” in beating his wife.

Female mutilation, child brides, just general atrocious conditions for women.

2. Saudi Arabia

This is just another notch in the Saudi affront to women that has been taking place there since the literal beginning of time. Still no rights, still worth half of the word of a man, still being beaten, assaulted, tortured, and all the other fun shit they’ve been doing to women, without any apologies at all.

Honduras

In Honduras, a woman is killed every 18 hours. Of every day. Without a day off, holiday, vacation, or sick day. They’re the literal femicide capital of the world. Not the worst part of this rathole though.

There are 3 shelters for rape survivors in Honduras. However, 2 of them double as brothels.

Yes, you fucking read that right. Brothels.

Honduras is the epitome of the bowels of hell for a woman. In terms of shitholes, this is the shittiest of all.