Let's start the week with a simple message from UN Women.
Stop telling women how to live their life!
The continued focus of the media on telling women what to do reflects a wide-spread sexism in global societies.... it won't be stoped abruptly, but behind much prejudice is this assumed male right.
So, my friends, if you find yourself telling a women how to live their life ask yourself: have I the right to be offering unasked-for 'guidance' or 'advice'?
@SebastianGallehr @ChrisMayLA6 Because women get crapped on like this a lot more than men do?
For example, the removal of abortion rights in the US and also the removal of post birth/miscarriage treatments due to doctors being afraid of falling foul of anti-abortion laws.
The US at a federal and state level is telling women how they should live their lives and which indignities they have to accept.
This sort of thing happens the world over and is deeply ingrained in all societies.
@SebastianGallehr @ChrisMayLA6 This thread started as a comment on the daily stream of unsolicited comments that women have to deal with.
What happens in war is exceptional.
To address your specific point it seems that the total number of war dead (all genders) in the whole of the 20th Century was of the order of today's population of the UK.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/deaths-in-wars
Which is a couple of orders of magnitude less than the number of women who lived in the same period.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimates_of_historical_world_population
Emeritus Prof Christopher May
Sebastian Gallehr ☮️ ⁂
Eggs now in different baskets.