I Interviewed Two Non-Feminists: This is What They Had To Say

If you know me, even tangentially, you know I identify as a feminist. Why? Because despite U.S. women earning more money than ever before, holding more seats in congress, and having more egalitarian romantic relationships, we are STILL:

- Routinely harassed (Watch this video of a women being harassed in New York City. It’s appalling, and it happens everywhere).

- 1 in 6 women are raped in their lifetimes.

- Grossly underpaid: Asian women earn 97% of what white men earn, resulting in a pay gap of just 3%. White women earn 79% of what white men do, while black women earn 67% and Hispanic women earn 58%.

-Women still do the bulk of emotional labor, which is unpaid and goes largely unnoticed. Moreover, we routinely undertake the arduous labor of convincing men that sexism does, in fact, exist.

I was recently listening to Pete Holmes’s You Made It Weird podcast, in which he interviewed Bo Burnham. Burnham said something along the lines of, “If an entire group of people share the same experience, it’s probably true.” Meaning, that if minorities across the U.S. experience racism, who is anyone to deny its existence? If half the population experiences sexism, who can blithely deny our collective lived experience?