I told my best friend for years how much I hate it when females advocate against feminism because “they don’t need it” and she looked at me a bit confused and said “We dont?”

As in we don’t need feminism.

I thought about finding new friends…

No. I will not let her go down like that. I will educate her. It may be rocky and slow at first, but I will not let her suffer from blind inequality. Just today she said she wanted to work at a store that sold construction supplies or something like that because she’s studying to be an engineer and she wanted to familiarise herself with that industry. They told her no outright because she was a girl. I had to open her eyes at how serious that was by telling her to call the police on them. It’s illegal to not hire someone because of his/her gender - at least where I’m from; I know my rights.

Sure you can say that you’d prefer a male, but you can’t tell me no because I’m not a male. That’s like me telling a boy he can’t work in my retail clothing store because he’s a boy. Sure, boys don’t usually wear “girl’s” clothes so they can’t help my customers, and I can assume that he has no idea how to fold a shirt for the shelf, but that doesn’t mean I shouldn’t hire him based on those assumptions.

Still waiting for this world to change.