Woman Gives 20 Examples That Perfectly Illustrate That We're Still Living In A Mans' World
We hear it often,'this is a man's world. While it might be an old saying, it's not an outdated notion... in fact, it's still pretty damn accurate.
Men have long dominated the key institutions; business, government and faith, but it goes much further than that. Most things in the world are built on or based around men - their size, their strength, their interests, they health preferences and so on.
TikTok user allie_202 recently shared a series of videos that explain how this world is built to accommodate men far more than women, and she has more videos coming! There's literally SO many things that she has made multiple videos.
Check them out below!
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Car crash dummies are built with a male standard, meaning that in car crashes, women are almost 50% more likely to be seriously injured than men.
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A lot of medicines are tested exclusively solely men, women then end up getting prescribed doses that are far too much for them.
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Women are 50% more likely to be misdiagnosed when it comes to heart attacks because they typically only experience mild chest-pain VS sharp pain like most men do
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Head rests in cars push women's head forwards especially if they have their hair up. It's not comfortable and it's completely unsafe.
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The disparity when it comes to birth-control and side-effects
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There's always crazy long lines at women's restrooms because they're built with not even remotely enough stalls.
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NASA had to cancel its first all-female spacewalk because they didn't have enough women-sized spacesuits.
Women often cannot comfortably reach the safety bars on trains or buses. This is true for children and shorter men, but 50% of women deal with this issue.
"Speech-recognition software is 70% more likely to accurately recognise male voices. When Siri was released in the US, she could find prostitutes and Viagra suppliers, but not abortion providers. If you told her you'd been [sexually assaulted], she'd reply "I don't know what you mean by that"."
Women are men run at different temperatures, therefore office spaces are often way too cold for women.
Autism diagnosis
Females are under diagnosed with autism because the criteria for diagnosis was written for males and they has never been updated.
CPR dummies often anatomically represent a biological 'male'. Therefore, people trained in CPR often do not know how to properly perform it on a woman. The female CPR dummy was only recently released.
Smartphone are often too big for female hands
The average female in the USA is 5'3 and the average male is 5'9. Considering this, many women say they cannot sit on an office chair with their feet flat on the floor.
N95 masks often don't properly fit the faces of women and Asian people, they're designed for the dimensions of an average male face.
Women often cannot properly grip household tools because they are made for much larger 'male' hands.
It's a given that women aren't able to reach top shelves in their own houses.
Fitness monitors (like fitbits) often don't accurately count steps when women are walking strollers (or anybody, for that matter, women just do it more often).
Equipment at the gym - there's a lot of machines women can't use because they can't be adjusted to them properly.
Keyboards/mouses are built with male sizes in mind, increasing rates of carpal tunnel/tendinitis in females.
