You don't think the fact that 1 in 3 American women will be raped - the vast majority of them by someone they know and trust - is a "real" problem? You don't think that 85% of American girls getting sexually harassed beginning at age 10 or 11 is a "real" problem? You don't think that major companies and institutions routinely turning a blind eye to and often protecting serial predators like Larry Nassar and the doctor from Columbia who abused his patients for over 20 years is a "real' problem? You don't think women surgeons getting groped and harassed WHILE they are assisting in surgeries is a "real" problem? And that grad students in STEM fields are still too often pressured for sexual favors from the men who in large part control their future prospects and careers?
“The report concludes that the cumulative result of sexual harassment in academic sciences, engineering, and medicine is significant damage to research integrity and a costly loss of talent in these fields,” concludes another relevant study. (National Academies)
"Today, this kind of quid pro quo may be less common, but sexual harassment at universities persists. The spate of lawsuits, investigations, and recent resignations at the University of California, Berkeley, University of Chicago, and UCLA, accompanied by older cases leaked to the press and an increase in women going public about their experiences, have made that clear. Graduate students and postdocs are particularly vulnerable, because their futures depend so completely on good recommendations from professors. And STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) students are more dependent than others. Their career progress hinges on invitations to work on professors’ grants or — if students have their own projects — access to big data sets or expensive lab equipment controlled by overwhelmingly male senior faculty." (The Atlantic)
Of course there are people in the world who don't have clean running water, or electricity, or other basic amenities that we have, but that doesn't mean that pervasive and institutionalized abuse and marginalization of Western women is some kind of fucking "first world problem." What is even wrong with you? Are you clueless or are you just mean?
