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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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.
——————-
- 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
Women Raping Men: A Survivor Tells His Story To HuffPost Live (VIDEO)
Former U.S. Marine James Landrith joined HuffPost Live to tell his story of being raped by a pregnant woman decades ago. As host Mike Sacks points out, female sexual predators are often depicted as objects of teenage fantasy in popular culture, but this ignores the fact that men can be victims of rape by women.
Earlier this year, the United States government updated its official definition of rape to include any gender of the victim and perpetrator.
Landrith told his story of being raped by a pregnant woman while on active duty as a U.S. Marine about twenty years ago.
As he tells HuffPost Live, the woman drugged him and forcibly had sex with him telling him that he “better not be forceful” or he would hurt her unborn child. Landrith still doesn’t remember much of what happened during the experience.
By posting this article, I hope it can help start conversations about male rape victims and encourage others to speak up. The more we get people talking, the more likely we are to find ways to help one another heal and recover…
I would like to think that we, as a society, are in the process of making HUGE strides in changing how we see rape and the people who have been affected by it. But I know that in order to do that to the absolute fullest extent, we need to listen to the men just as much as we listen to the women. We do. I know that some of you may bristle at that idea, but I ask you: why is a man’s story suddenly less valid than a woman’s? Why must their experiences be denounced, and other’s championed based solely on their sex? That is WRONG. Didn’t we just spend all of the 2012 Election saying that rape is rape, and that it can happen to ANYONE?
That being said, I do sincerely believe that it is in EVERYONE’S best interest to realize that this CAN happen, and that it DOES happen — that ANYONE can be a victim, and that ANYONE can be a predator.
If we’re going to put an end to rape culture, then it would almost assuredly behoove ALL of us to examine how it manifests — however, wherever, and with whoever it may.
Just had to put that out there.
Women Raping Men: A Survivor Tells His Story To HuffPost Live (VIDEO)
Former U.S. Marine James Landrith joined HuffPost Live to tell his story of being raped by a pregnant woman decades ago. As host Mike Sacks points out, female sexual predators are often depicted as objects of teenage fantasy in popular culture, but this ignores the fact that men can be victims of rape by women.
Earlier this year, the United States government updated its official definition of rape to include any gender of the victim and perpetrator.
Landrith told his story of being raped by a pregnant woman while on active duty as a U.S. Marine about twenty years ago.
As he tells HuffPost Live, the woman drugged him and forcibly had sex with him telling him that he “better not be forceful” or he would hurt her unborn child. Landrith still doesn’t remember much of what happened during the experience.
By posting this article, I hope it can help start conversations about male rape victims and encourage others to speak up. The more we get people talking, the more likely we are to find ways to help one another heal and recover…
I would like to think that we, as a society, are in the process of making HUGE strides in changing how we see rape and the people who have been affected by it. But I know that in order to do that to the absolute fullest extent, we need to listen to the men just as much as we listen to the women. We do. I know that some of you may bristle at that idea, but I ask you: why is a man’s story suddenly less valid than a woman’s? Why must their experiences be denounced, and other’s championed based solely on their sex? That is WRONG. Didn’t we just spend all of the 2012 Election saying that rape is rape, and that it can happen to ANYONE?
That being said, I do sincerely believe that it is in EVERYONE’S best interest to realize that this CAN happen, and that it DOES happen — that ANYONE can be a victim, and that ANYONE can be a predator.
If we’re going to put an end to rape culture, then it would almost assuredly behoove ALL of us to examine how it manifests — however, wherever, and with whoever it may.
Just had to put that out there.
(2) male survivors and he will get a little despondent. Most of the time, he continues on like nothing happened. I am much more open with him about my assault than he is with me about his. I don’t pressure him to talk about it, but part of me wishes he would. The more I talked, the less ashamed of something that was -not- my fault I became. I hope he can reach a fully healed point in his life, if he hasn’t already.
It pisses me off that stuff like this happens…
(2) male survivors and he will get a little despondent. Most of the time, he continues on like nothing happened. I am much more open with him about my assault than he is with me about his. I don’t pressure him to talk about it, but part of me wishes he would. The more I talked, the less ashamed of something that was -not- my fault I became. I hope he can reach a fully healed point in his life, if he hasn’t already.
It pisses me off that stuff like this happens…
College told me men can’t be raped and tried to discredit me
Original Story by freebird1989
I was an Intern at a SUNY school in New York and as part of my training I had to attend sexual harassment/violence in the workplace and relationships. Every slide was about how women are the victims and the school has a center just for women. At the end of…
This…THIS IS FRICKING BEAUTIFUL….and sad. I find it disgusting how these people tried to turn this around on him and turn him into the criminal like. If this story is to be believed, this man is a hero for speaking up for male rape victims. Give this man an award!
College told me men can’t be raped and tried to discredit me
Original Story by freebird1989
I was an Intern at a SUNY school in New York and as part of my training I had to attend sexual harassment/violence in the workplace and relationships. Every slide was about how women are the victims and the school has a center just for women. At the end of…
This…THIS IS FRICKING BEAUTIFUL….and sad. I find it disgusting how these people tried to turn this around on him and turn him into the criminal like. If this story is to be believed, this man is a hero for speaking up for male rape victims. Give this man an award!
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