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This is what a feminist looks like.
These shirts are made in a sweat shop in Mauritius, an island nation 2,000km off the south east coast of Africa, by migrant women who sleep in cramped rooms where 16 of them share it in 8 bunk beds per room.
They have made comments saying they dont feel like feminists, that they feel trapped and that they dont feel equal. The shirts cost £9 or about $11 to make and sell for £45 or about $72 but the women in these factories get paid about a dollar an hour for their labor, £72 per month or about $100. 6,000 rupees. It would take these women over 2 weeks of work to buy a single shirt.
A female worker said:
“How can this T-shirt be a symbol of feminism when we do not see ourselves as feminists? We see ourselves as trapped.”Another said:
“I have worked here for four years and I have not been able to see my son or husband in Bangladesh during all that time. We work very hard, sometimes 12 hour days, for not much money. I send all my money home and could not afford to fly back and see my family.”The factories that make the shirts for The Fawcett Society, CMT, has an annual turnover of £125 million. It produces 40 million T-shirts a year for clients including Topshop, Next and Urban Outfitters.
It employs 13,000 staff at its factories and about 4,500, all foreign, are housed on site. Migrants come from countries including Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, India and Vietnam.
There are around 2,800 female machinists. Workers are expected to produce around 50 shirts a day and face discipline if they do not reach their target.
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- Hypocrites enforcing and contributing to ACTUAL oppression and wage gap of women while claiming to fight for equality for all women?
- Coffee shop and champagne democrats and liberal sjw’s more focused on feel good ideas rather than productive action?
- All in the safety of their 1st world country and home with all the rights one could dream for?
- While complaining about nonsensical and debunked myths like 1 in 5 women are raped and the wage gap and misinterpreted music lyrics and video games on their macbooks and ipads?
Check check check and check.
This is indeed what a feminist looks like lmao.
What an honest shirt.
Patriarchy though amirite?
>inb4 people spin this by somehow blaming white men
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