Dear Daughters Against Feminism - You're Right. Equality Sucks!

Dear Daughters @ http://yourfriendshouse.com/2014/women-are-standing-up-against-feminism-and-its-going-viral/ I’m so glad you believe you don’t need the feminist movement – the reason you believe you don’t need the feminist movement is -because hmmm lets see – oh yes – the feminist movement. I'm glad you weren't a young women in the 70's when I thought I might like to be a bank teller with the Commonwealth Bank, it was a good steady job that I could do until I got married, yes that’s right, even in the 70’s women were often expected to give up work if they married. Anyway to be a teller you had to sit a state-wide exam in Melbourne. So I trundled off to the city one Saturday morning and sat the exam. Then the bank called me in for an interview.
I sat in a little cubicle and a bank man told me, somewhat startled about it himself, that I had come second highest in the whole state with a score of 98. He said he didn't expect that from a "Girl". He then told me the boy in the next cubicle had come third and he offered me a job, until I had my first baby at which point I must leave the bank. I asked what my starting salary as a teller would be and he said, $60 a week. I then asked what the boy next door, who came third, would get paid and the man said, with absolutely no apology, ‘Oh he’s a boy so he will get $90 a week.' That’s right. He was going to get paid half again on top just for having a penis. Or let’s put it another way, I was going to get 1/3 less than him just because I was a girl and I had even beat him in their stupid test. So I am glad daughters that you don't need feminism, I'm glad you live in the 1st world but you are only 10% of the world’s population of women. I'm glad you can voice your opinion because in many countries women aren't allowed to have opinions, many women still die in child birth, many women are not allowed to work or drive cars even if they want to, many women are told what to wear and have no rights in a court of law, many women have no right to divorce or have their own money and many women are not educated simply because they are females. I wonder if they feel the same as you. I wonder if they have signs saying they don't need feminism? I'm glad none of you want to be a Catholic Priest because women still aren't allowed to do that. I'm glad you don't aim to be the next prime minister of Australia because the last woman that tried that just about got burnt at the stake, I'm glad you don't want to be safe in the streets at night, I'm glad you don't want equal pay for comparable jobs or to be successful in business or politics because if you wanted those things you might feel you needed feminism to get them. But really what it comes down to is that the reason you don’t think you need feminism is because a whole bunch of women before you have worn a whole lot of crap and fought a whole lot of shit so that you can feel like you don’t need feminism. So why don’t you make some signs that say, ‘Thanks – job well done – we’ll carry the load from here.’