Good
question. Let’s start with a few facts. This is the general definition
of emotional abuse via economic control of a subject:
This is a statistical fact on cis/hetero women experiencing more emotional abuse and specifically financial control w/in their relationships, than other groups…
Not only do we (women) experience a general wage gap, getting paid less at our jobs for the same work as men, even when the woman has more formal education the man usually gets paid more. As preposterous as that is in itself, we (women) then also then earn even less after we’ve had children…
Additionally:Women have the need for more doctors appts with less healthcare
coverage available to us in general (just as 1 example, Viagra is
covered by insurance companies, while birth control pills are often not
covered). Despite
the proven dangerous side effects of injectable and oral birth control,
which can cause a lifetime of complications and harm to women at a
biological level, and despite the risks associated with tubal (surgery
to get ones “tubes ties”) and other procedures the female gender remains deemed as the one responsible for preventing stds/pregnancy within our relationships more often than not. Let’s compare:vasectomy
is 50% less cost and danger. Vasectomy is a one time permanent
pregnancy prevention technique. Vasectomy is an outpatient procedure
which requires no time off work and has zero risks or side effects
besides 48hrs of mild discomfort. Guess
how many men refuse? Guess how many relationships exist where the woman
is instead taking years worth of medicines, with time off work for
monthly doctors appointments, accruing thousands & thousands in lost
wages and copays ?? I challenge you to research statistical information
on birth control usage within heterosexual relationships. Next fact: women have general need for more retail purchases than men such as feminine
hygiene products, skin products, hair products, make up, styling tools,
finger/toenail products, we need to buy bras & purses &
“extras” which society doesn’t generally expect of men, in order to be
socially accepted.
while
we’re the gender earning less, EVERYTHING we need is also more
expensive than the same retail version which is made for men: https://axthepinktax.com/
We
are oppressed from birth & forced into positions of inferiority
most of our lives, like these examples of -even our own government-
economically abusing us via repression of reaching true economic
potential and having bodily autonomy.
There
are numerous laws men have made about what women should/shouldn’t and
can/can’t do with their own bodies. Not a single law has ever been
proposed governing mens bodies. Think about that.
Women
are deliberately kept very scarce in high level positions w/in
companies, especially fields of Science and Government, and this not for
lack of qualified applicants but a form of control over us.Crime rates against women are astronomically higher than crimes against men in general. I could go on & on with stark comparisons of how women are stripped of equal opportunities by the patriarchy. WOMEN
ARE GENERALLY EMOTIONALLY STRONGER THAN MEN & HAVE HIGHER
THRESHOLDS FOR VARIOUS DISCOMFORTS, AND CAPACITY FOR INGENUITY,
SECONDARY TO THE REASONS AFOREMENTIONED. This
is why I celebrate Goddess worship (female supremacy/female dominance)
as forms of reparations which men can offer the women in their lives