



In case you haven’t seen the recent advertisements from the United Nations campaign for women, here they are.





Odds are you are a man if you’re reading this. How do I know? Well, my means of distribution are reddit and, uh, well, reddit. Over 90% of my traffic comes from reddit and most redditors are men, about 65%. You’re also approximately 33.9 years old. You also have probably seen the Walking Dead, because, like, a shitload of people watch that show. You’ve also probably weighed in on gender equality, even if by accident.





As a 30.046 year old brother of four, from the midwest, my view on gender equality has undergone many iterations.





From elementary through high school, I was very overweight. With the exception of the few friends I had, most exchanges revolved around said weight problem, and always in a negative way; I hated both genders equally. Which is some sort of start to gender equality, I guess.





Once my “peanut M&Ms” dropped and my “spare hair” came in, the dynamic with women became more complex.





Long story short, I want to tell men of all ages, I get it; It’s hard deal with unrequited crushes, rejection, the feeling of women either not wanting you or wanting to change you. I know the frustration that comes with watching the douche bag jock practically molest a girl and get rewarded with a relationship. I know what it’s like to feel powerless because of a woman.





I’ve disrespected women. I’ve used the phrase “you <some action here> like a girl” in a derogatory way. I’ve underestimated women in several forums despite their lack of a penis not playing any role that forum; you don’t play smash brothers with your dick - well, I guess you can, but short hop, dair, L-canceling will be tricky.





I’m not here to convince anyone to pick up a copy of The Feminine Mystique, or to go thumbs up the Feminist Frequency Videos as reparation. I’m just here to tell you as someone who got picked on for being fat - disrespected, picked on, and even physically abused by classmates for being the way that I was - I wished over and over that my taunters would have stopped and tried to see how insensitive they were being. I wished they would have tried to see themselves through my eyes. When you start looking at the world through someone else’s eyes, male or female, your perception grows. If you learn just a little something while you have your “other person goggles” on, you improve as a person. And if enough people do this, then that means we could have a culture that improves. Wouldn’t it be cool?





Wouldn’t it be cool if we lived in society where stuff like this was universally reprimanded?





Wouldn’t it be cool if gamers stopped using “rape”, “bitch”, “your mother”, “cunt”, and others on an everyday basis? Wouldn’t it be cool to play games with women? Wouldn’t it be cool to see a top 8 of all women?





Also, to the women of the world, when a man, whether a teenager or an elected official disrespects you because of your gender please refer to this video for instructions on cathartic responses (0:54).





