Women, you deserve better!

We live for the weekends (that might not actually for on the actual weekends, if you're working shifts with different schedules), holidays and vacations of our lives.

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And those are the breaks we have from the hardships that come with growing up, adulting, having a job that takes at least 8 hours of our lives (in Portugal, a full time job has mandatory 8 hours, and a normal work day is at least 8 hours, with little chance of having the extra hours paid).

After the shift, you go home. And, if you fall under the female category, that usually means an extra shift.

Usually, you work all day, you go home, your dinner won't cook by itself, you might want to get things ready for the following day, and organise your house a bit. Unless you have made plans with a friend. And this, of course, if you live by yourself.

However, if you have kids and a significant other, then there's your family to take care of: dinner, showers, cleaning up whatever needs to be cleaned. That and listen to your significant other's problems when he most likely won't even ask how your day was. Looking for some "me" time? LoL

Stay at home mum? Your whole day revolves around the house and your kids' lives, and your significant other's. You think you have problems? LOL How dare you think you had a bad day, when you spend your days at home - isn't that the dream life? Oh yes, and so much for some "me" time.

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Unless the kids' parent(s) actually pull their weight around the house and contribute with their share of the workload, you're in it for the second shift of the day - the Cinderella shift (without the happily ever after). And it shouldn't be that way: after all, they also eat, they also soil stuff, and they also live in the freaking house.

Women, you don't just need help around the house. You need someone that helps you improve your day, not someone that only increases your workload by playing the big kid in an useless adult body, and that can only sleep (and snore), stuff their faces and watch tv (and, most likely, go out with friends, or tell you how you should be doing "your work at home").

Women, we deserve better! And please don't fall for the "it's embarrassing for a woman not to be able to take care of her man" because, what's embarrassing is for a man not to be able to take care of himself.

Women, we deserve better than to also do all the emotional and mental workload because men are unable to think of someone other than themselves.

You shouldn't have to ask for help with the house chores. They need to share the workload!

Improve your lives! You deserve to also have a life and to rest. You're a woman and you are not paid to be his maid and personal psychologist.

Men, stop being useless twats and start taking responsibility. You also live there!!!

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What about our damned rights?!?

According to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, specifically the articles cited below, 

Article 1. 

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

Article 2. 

Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty. 

Article 3. 

Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person. 

Article 4. 

No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms. 

Article 5. 

No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. 

Article 6. 

Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law. 

Article 7. 

All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination. 

Article 8. 

Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law. 

Article 16. 

(1) Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution. 

(2) Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses. 

Article 23. 

(2) Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work. 

Article 24. 

Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay. 

Article 28. 

Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized.

men and women are supposed to have equal rights.

Unfortunately, women's rights seem to be a lot less equal than men's. And that is blatantly obvious when we look at the media and find news articles such as

Outrage over 6-month sentence for Brock Turner in Stanford rape case (US)

Portuguese judge uses Bible to excuse abusive husband (Portugal)

English judge says man having sex with wife is 'fundamental human right' (UK)

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This is when I ask "Where the hell are our damned rights?!?"

When I am told that I should be happy that I don't have it worse, I feel like screaming in their faces and tell them to shove their misogyny in a really dark place of their own anatomy.

Legally, we have the same rights as men.

And, yet, we are paid less, not chosen for the same professional opportunities just because we might want to have kids, in some western countries (I'm looking at you, US!) we have less bodily rights than a freaking corpse.

And, yet, everywhere in the world we are treated as decoration (and you either match society's idea of beauty or you are seen as sub-human and treated like garbage).

And, yet, we are told to smile more, like we owe any stranger your time of day.

And, yet, we're insulted and degraded if we don't reply according to men's wishes, and even brutally attacked and viciously killed if we don't want to date them.

And it pains me when I hear women say that they don't need feminism. Mostly because they never read about feminism and think it is the exact opposite of machismo.

To all of you fuming furiously at each post on blogs and social media regarding feminism, please, tell yourselves why you think feminism is no longer needed, when it so clearly is.

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