By Angely Peña and Luis Mila
Men are the epitome of power and they deserve a month for themselves. They have created wars, sparked revolutions, developed laws, and all for a better cause — If women have a month, why can’t men? Such a progressive sex calls for celebration.
“Women’s History Month ” congratulates the progress of women that society believes to be “important.” But what has the feminist movement accomplished anyway? Sure, it has changed women’s suffrage, provided greater access to education and more equitable pay for women, revolutionized divorce proceedings, empowered individual choices in regards to pregnancy, and garnered respect for women’s bodies.
But basically, the feminist movement hasn’t done much — nothing too important that is.
On the contrary, men have founded and developed countries, established extensive, detailed legal codes, created religions and distinctive social structures, defended the interest of the nations they’ve lead — and that’s what is truly the most important for society and the development of humanity.
Men are powerful beings, and that deserves recognition. They have the incredible ability to take advantage of countless women of all ages, and the potential to change the world for the better of the patriarchy they are running.
Every 24 minutes, there’s a victim of rape, physical violence, or stalking, mostly comprised of men against women. Over 80% of high frequency victims are women and 82% of domestically abused women were murdered by their partner. Not only have men managed to develop a gendered-biased economy, social structure, and job force, but crime too — a truly all-around achievement that shows men deserve celebration.
Obviously, a month is far too long to recognize the female sex that was able to only get the right to vote in the land of the free nearly a century ago, which is in contrast to men, who have rightfully possessed that right since the beginning of time and have dominated society since — using their power to opress others — its just what men do.
Women have paraded with their breasts out for #FreeTheNipple, fought against oppressive employers that harassed them with #MeToo, and shared their stories of sexual assault online to provide solace for others with #WhyIDidn’tReport and #WomensReality on Twitter and Instagram.
On the other hand, men popularized femicide — killing a woman or a girl on the sole account of her gender — and culture-embedded it throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, where in 2018, 3,529 cases of femicide were reported according to Global Americans — so let’s all clap to that.
More than half of all women feel safe being outside at night, and to the other half —it’s probably in their head. After all, only 65% of women have experienced harassment in the street according to Stop Street Harassment — which isn’t even that much.
And it’s not like human trafficking – where 72% of all trafficked victims are women – has reached its highest point in thirteen years: from fewer than 20,000 to more than 25,000. Men you have done it again – constantly raising the bar for everyone.
Men have done a lot.
They’ve defended their lands, defined society, built civilizations from the ground up, provided for their families.
Their fall from grace is inevitable, and it has given a rise to a new, powerful force to be reckoned with — women. That was probably the only mistake of men.
Women are resilient, fierce, proud, formidable. They’re here for change, and they’re not willing to take no for an answer — especially because of a man.
