【Social Problems】女权运动误区part 2（文稿）

After a lifetime of embodying difference, I've decided that I've got no desire to be equal. I want to deconstruct the system that marked me out as different and change it. That's fighting for liberation. Cast your mind back to 2014. Apple and Facebook announced they would pay up to $20,000 for women employees to freeze their eggs so that they could focus on their careers without fretting about their fertility. Presumably, this was a move to enable women to keep up with men in the workplace. Great idea, right? Strides ahead for women. After all, in 2013, a government report found that half of all pregnant women in Great Britain experienced some form of disadvantage at work, and that 30,000 women said they had been forced out of their jobs because of pregnancy. Absurdly, egg freezing is a logical conclusion of all of this equality talk. Equality is telling women employees that they can freeze their eggs so that they can be as productive as their male counterparts. But why can't we restructure the workplace to suit women's needs, or anyone with dependants? That's liberation. Or consider the endless Women in Boardroom's debate. Equality talk will have you believe that having women in senior positions at private companies will trigger kind of trickled-down feminism that will benefit all women. But it's a comfortably assimilation, this argument. It doesn't change the culture of an organisation or address a passively hostile environment towards those with children and dependants in the first place. We need to embrace and accommodate difference, rather than requiring everyone to reach an arbitrary and pointless bar of assimilation. I can agree with equality as a transitional demand. There is dishonest not to recognise it for what it is. The easy rule. There is a difference between saying "Please, we want to be included" and saying "We want to reconstructure exclusive system". And it's the first one that doesn't piss as many people off. So next time you want to do your bit for women, don't seek to erase difference; seek to embrace it.