JustPearlyThings - What Do Feminists Fight For？

00:00:00.000 do you feel like equality is possible with anyone like even me and you we're both we're both women

00:00:05.360 right but me and you like we're going to be unequal in different things so when when people

00:00:10.480 say equality i never know what they're talking about yeah because i guess it there's always

00:00:16.320 a third party that kind of sets the standards right for equality so i guess equality just

00:00:24.400 means like same chances and possibility for everyone's but i don't like to i don't even

00:00:30.400 like the word equality i think we were talking about this with some friends i think uh um equality

00:00:36.640 is never the right word because people come from different backgrounds different like even economical 1.00

00:00:42.400 situations so we don't have the same possibilities so it's almost like equality of opportunity would

00:00:48.880 be better than just i think i don't remember the exact word we use not equality we use like

00:00:56.160 inclusion or something like that yeah okay well thank you so much i appreciate it do you have any

00:01:01.840 socials you want to plug uh yes my instagram it's at gabby underscore d mua i'm a makeup artist thank

00:01:09.920 you so much i appreciate it you guys uh i was really hoping to get somebody that disagreed with me because

00:01:17.360 at first everyone that came up to me just agreed with me all day until dun dun dun what's your name

00:01:25.680 my name's nizana i'm pearl nice to meet you um would you identify as a feminist i would say that i i do 1.00

00:01:33.040 yes okay so what do you think we need feminism for in 2022 um so this girl demanded that she see this 1.00

00:01:41.120 video the edits before i post it um so this is just me letting you know that no um you decided to sit

00:01:50.720 down and get recorded you don't get to see what i do with the footage well in 2022 i think we need

00:01:57.840 feminism for the equality of all genders and all sexes and that's that really so what like like what

00:02:05.360 specific policy are we fighting for equality of all sexes and the fact that men have certain

00:02:13.200 privileges that of course women don't we don't have the privilege of walking in the middle of the night 1.00

00:02:18.240 and not being scared that someone's going to attack us and we're fighting for equality in those terms and

00:02:25.520 beyond that as well in terms of you know in the legal world in terms of uh education in terms of uh jobs

00:02:33.280 there's so many things that so to start men are more likely to be victims of a violent crime than

00:02:38.240 women so um if like and i don't really know what policy we'd be fighting for because i think across 0.94

00:02:46.160 the board like i i say grape on youtube i can't say that i can't say i can't say r-a-p-e on youtube so

00:02:53.680 i'm gonna say great okay like grape is illegal murder is legal so all violence is illegal so i just

00:02:59.520 don't know what policy we're fighting for because if you just tell bad guys don't don't grape or don't

00:03:06.080 kill like they're not going to stop but like marches aren't going to fix that it's just law enforcement

00:03:11.360 yeah i agree i i'm an aspiring barrister so i know that more than anything it is the legal side of

00:03:18.000 things that do need to be put in force more i guess boldly and solidly to in order for us to actually

00:03:26.960 achieve equality it's not a thing of oh what is the one policy that's going to make this work and

00:03:32.480 that's going to that what we're fighting for there's so many things that feminism is fighting for and 1.00

00:03:37.920 you can't sort of box that into a certain thing and say oh why what is the one policy you're fighting

00:03:44.240 for i disagree with that it's not it's not one policy because to me we are equal yeah like to me

00:03:50.240 in 2022 i don't think we need feminism because i don't think there's anything left to fight for 1.00

00:03:54.640 well i would disagree with that and i think i don't know where the conversation would go from

00:04:00.320 that other than to say that there are so many things well so i'd like you to like list them so

00:04:06.400 so if women are at a disadvantage but not like because the first example you gave men are more

00:04:12.000 likely to be victims of a violent crime so we're not disadvantaged in that regard like men men also

00:04:16.880 are afraid to walk alone at night in a dangerous area i take your point but i think there's a certain

00:04:24.240 privilege of even us living in the western world that you won't see beyond just this island country

00:04:32.080 there's so much more that we haven't seen in uh south asian countries where my parents originally from

00:04:39.280 from um african countries from south american countries and a lot of it is to do with education

00:04:45.920 there's there is a clear disparity between the education of males to females and you don't see

00:04:53.360 that because we live here women dominate colleges yeah yeah so yeah but an advantage there but do 1.00

00:05:01.200 they dominate colleges in bangladesh do they dominate colleges in india well but in any population group

00:05:07.280 it's never going to be equal like like if you take okay if you take a group of anyone it's never going

00:05:13.120 to be 50 50 down the middle because people have different things that interest them yeah so yeah so

00:05:18.400 to me it's like if there's nothing in their way stopping them from going to school and and for me

00:05:23.840 i'm specifically i will sorry i should have prefaced with this but i'm talking about like

00:05:26.960 england us because i'm american and and here there's nothing stopping us from getting an education

00:05:32.960 so so to me like what what's what's holding us back i mean i think about feminism as it also 1.00

00:05:40.640 being intersectional in this in the sense that i'm talking about race i'm talking about class as well

00:05:45.280 socio-economic divide in this country it's so clear okay so i just want to for this conversation

00:05:52.240 stick to gender because that that's like what we're talking about because that's a whole nother yeah 0.99

00:05:57.040 but um because to me like i i just don't see anything holding us back there's nothing i can't do

00:06:02.800 and like there are companies that have done um like google did a study on its employees because they

00:06:08.880 thought they were paying women less but when they took into account the number of hours worked and the

00:06:13.680 specific jobs that they had women were making eight percent more and i could quote you study 0.96

00:06:17.920 after study after study that that shows there's no pay gap when you take in into the account hours worked

00:06:22.960 and interest well i don't like the fact that you're taking one study out of and i would love to see

00:06:32.000 that you know it bullet pointed and written down in my own eyes but i don't like uh just seeing oh from

00:06:38.800 one company and one this and one that because we have to look at it in the entirety and looking at

00:06:43.600 in the in the um in the entirety and even for example for me i'm an aspiring barrister we're all

00:06:49.920 self-employed there's that what is that barrister is an advocate in court they're a lawyer

00:06:54.960 um and for example they're self-employed but in their chambers where they work they don't have such

00:07:00.480 thing as maternity pay how are they meant to fund themselves their their families their children when 1.00

00:07:07.040 they don't have those policies in places and that's where we disagree because you're saying oh

00:07:13.280 everything's good happy and jolly but that's not the case is there paternity pay no there's so it's

00:07:19.200 equal then i would disagree just because i mean a woman has to literally shoot someone out of their 1.00

00:07:26.720 vagina you know what i mean oh gosh it's raining um and i you know that is just one example but what i'm 1.00

00:07:33.920 trying to say is that that we look at a whole range of things and we can see quite clearly that

00:07:41.120 it's not equal well because like what i'd like to hear from feminists is like what is the specific 1.00

00:07:46.640 problem and what do you specifically propose lawmakers do about it i feel like it's so hard

00:07:52.960 to you're putting me on the spot but it's so hard to just kind of get it up in my head because there are

00:07:56.400 so many things wrong i mean i mean you know abortion and healthcare in america that's insane i don't even

00:08:03.680 want to delve into that because it's just insanity i would say compared to here we are blessed with

00:08:08.960 the nhs but i think you can get abortions in america it's not illegal yeah but in certain states

00:08:16.720 there's certain conditions and there's certain things that had to be in order for someone to

00:08:22.720 get an abortion again i'm not i don't live in the us i don't want to get it because the one thing like 0.92

00:08:27.200 like men aren't like with women don't if i don't want to be a mother i can get an abortion or drive to 0.84

00:08:31.600 a state that allows me to get an abortion but if a man doesn't want to be a father he can't he can't

00:08:36.640 he's he's stuck on child support for 18 years he can't he can't opt out of being a father the way

00:08:41.680 that women can opt out of being a mother i have a question for you are you pro-choice or pro-life

00:08:46.720 am i pro-choice or pro-life oh i'm pro-life yeah i can see quite clearly um sorry what was your

00:08:53.360 question so i'm saying like i i i would say that in in terms of reproduction men are at the disadvantage

00:08:59.840 because if i if i get pregnant right let's say let's see um there's a guy i get pregnant and he 1.00

00:09:06.160 doesn't want me to keep the baby he has no say and on top of that so he he he stuck on child support for

00:09:12.080 18 years where where me i i can cash a check there are women that are that are seeking out hot top 1.00

00:09:19.840 individuals like nba players like trying to get pregnant by them because the justice system is so 0.84

00:09:25.280 in favor of women like i just have to get you know i just have to get pregnant by a dude and i i'm 1.00

00:09:30.960 entitled to his money for 18 years you know what you're the way you're twisting things is actually

00:09:37.040 reminding me of how the media twists everything in the sense that you take the one percent of the

00:09:41.600 cases that are happening and i and i and i wouldn't say i would disagree with the whole nba thing but a 0.94

00:09:46.640 woman's body is her body she can choose to do whatever the fuck she wants with that it's not 1.00

00:09:51.040 necessarily a guy's choice to say hey i bought the baby because i don't want it no that's that's 0.99

00:09:56.960 your bit that's not your business it's a woman's body it's my body i'm gonna birth the child but 1.00

00:10:00.960 it's his baby you're the one that had sex with the woman that's your fault you you don't you don't 0.99

00:10:06.640 fault for having sex with him no you can't say that just because no we're talking the other way 0.97

00:10:12.720 around okay fair enough i would take your point but i'm saying you can't say the whole point of oh just

00:10:18.720 because the man doesn't want the baby it's not his body to choose whatever the hell he wants with it

JustPearlyThings - August 08, 2023

What Do Feminists Fight For？

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