#Yeah obviously im inconvenienced by the strike

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People who cannot participate in the strike are being encouraged to wear red in solidarity with women everywhere, so you don't actually have to not come in to work if you don't want.

yeah i know but tbh my uniform is all-black we have a strict dress code i can’t really wear red visibly without getting pulled aside by my boss. thats not a hugely universal issue though obviously, its more personal, though i’m sure they’ll be other women with the same problem.

like im not saying the concept of it isn’t noble! i just don’t think it’s going to work because ultimately the women who Aren’t going to be able to fully participate are the ones who most demonstrate how present women are in the workforce. like imagine if every waitress, retail worker, and female teacher walked out. the country would come to a halt because people expect access to their services every day. but they won’t get to strike. if every woman in the company i work for walked out they’d have to shut down - that’s why they won’t let us out that day. no company that would be inconvenienced if they let their employees get involved is going to let their employees get involved.

also you realise because of this, when this strike makes no impact At All men are actually going to be able to validate misogyny, their belief that women aren’t so present/important to the workforce, simply because there was ‘a day without women’ and they weren’t at all inconvenienced by it.

it’s a nice idea but it just seems too exclusive. it bugs me that the strike just isn’t representative of it’s tagline: which is ‘a day without women’. really it’s become ‘a day without privileged women who can afford/are allowed to skip a day of work’ so the whole thing seems kind of superficial to me i guess.