Who wouldn’t be against rape? Who wouldn’t be against sexual assault? Who wouldn’t be against pay inequity?
This is where we’re at. Still discussing, arguing, agitating, fighting for the most obvious rights.
Rape, sexual assault, and pay inequity are the low-hanging fruit of civil rights.
Who wouldn’t be against these injustices? No one.
And yet, after all the activism of the last 50 years, the following facts remain:
- One in five women will be raped in the United States during her lifetime.
- Women working the same jobs as men earn anywhere from 75% to 91% of what men earn.
- Sexual assault — via work harassment, street harassment, intimidation, and coercion — continues.
Why are we unable to put an end to the most obvious of injuries?
DarkSexism 
Well as far as pay inequality- people look for excuses to pay as little as possible- so that gives them a precedented excuse. But fortunately that has been changing steadily, if slowly. And now I think that change will be accelerating with the increasingly ubiquitous stand women and men are taking on this.
As for rape- men probably have had a hard time giving up a likely deep-seated, biological, pro-creational l desire to be able to have their way with women. But I think now they are realizing that rape and sexual assault are just not right from an humanistic point of view- as opposed to their baser, animalistic point of view. I think we are going to see a significant and rapid change right now on this as well. The times seem ready for this.
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Upon further reflection I wanted to say I don’t think that rape is an act of sex, but one of violence. I have heard this and I think this is true. So there is no biological rationale for it. And fortunately our society has taken a hard line on rape by a stranger for quite some time. However, more subtle and insidious forms of the this and sexual assault have taken longer to come to justice. These include date and marital rape and assault. I hope the new “Me Too” and “Times Up” movements accelerate the intolerance of these other forms of abuse.
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