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Modern Feminism is Not Needed in America

The Wage Gap; The wage gap is the first of feminist myths. There is no statistical evidence for the 79% claim as that is based off yearly earnings and not wages, and when all factors are accounted for women make 98% with a 4% margin of error, meaning that they might even make more. Most arguments in the 90%-96% range still do not account for many factors that go into yearly earnings, such as the fact that women work on average 42 minutes less each day. Lastly, if women feel that they are being paid less, they are allowed to sue under the Equal Pay Act of 1963 signed into law by JFK. Equal Opportunity: Equal opportunity is the best way to maintain freedoms of all persons in a nation. Equal outcome would result is suppression of rights for those getting paid less for their work as the only way to ensure equal outcome is to force, in this case women, to work in jobs which paid higher, not allowing them to follow their own wills. Otherwise you would have to lower the jobs men could have, resulting in a lowering economy and again restricting freedoms. Equal opportunity has already been achieved as there are no laws which target women or help men further in life. Rape Culture: Statistics according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics show that only 2.1 of 1000 persons had been a victim of rape, or .0021%. Though cases do go unreported, it is unlikely that the 20%-33% statistics are accurate as the original statistic would have to be increased 10000 times. The problem with statistics ranging from 20%-33% is that they are done in surveys with vague questions, many not fitting under the legal definitions of rape or sexual assault, making the statistics positively skewed. Statistics from the NWAV show that roughly .1% of males and .3% of females are raped annually, not including prison rape, which when included show over 200000 additional rapes against men. Though rapes do occur, the 1/3-1/5 statistics vastly over-represent the truth, and there is no evidence that rape is a result of culture. Female Representation: Last is representation of females, and when I talk about this I am referring to 2 topics, sexualization and appearance in movies, shows, and video games. First, media is over-sexualized for both sexes. The difference is that women are more likely to respond negatively to sexual imagery, and take personal offense. Only about 1/6 men showed care for sexually explicit imagery of men in commercials, so while they are displayed, men often do not care about the imagery. Also there is the myth that women are not represented as much in media because of sexism. First, when talking about films, women are the minority producers and writers, therefore when a writer makes a story about a character which he could understand, he picks a man character. This leads to more movies being about men than women, as it is what the creators are used to. For video games, though there are statistics showing that women and men are very evenly split among 'gamers', many of the female 'gamers' are counted on phone apps. When studying the most popular game platform on PC, Steam, women only make up 18% of the users, and as a result developers make games for their main audience, men. Conclusion: There is no explicit sexism demonstrated in any of these 4 topics, showing equal opportunity for women in work and media. There is also no evidence for a culture problem which leads to sexual violence and rape. Women are not discriminated against in America whether it be in culture or law, and therefore feminism is not necessary. Further Points: -A definition cannot define a movement, only actions define a movement, because of this the definition of feminism is not a proper argument for feminism. -Though 82% of Americans believe in the definition of feminism, only 20% of Americans are feminists (23% female and 16% male.), and the number is not growing. Sources: -http://www.payscale.com... -https://www.forbes.com... -https://www.bjs.gov... -http://www.escapistmagazine.com... -https://galyonk.in... (See games for women.) -http://www.mainstreethost.com... -https://www.eeoc.gov... -http://research.omicsgroup.org... -http://www.dailymail.co.uk... -http://www.huffingtonpost.com...