Does Facebook have a problem with women?

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28. An 'it gets better' campaign aimed at young women would be a cruel lie.

Unless we specified that they could expect the improvement to happen sometime in their 50's/60's.

Many young women have experienced the bind personally... being told they're free to own their sexuality, then being bullied and harassed by their exes and their peers if they do.

Employers didn't get a "that's how it is" exemption regarding sexual harassment. They were rightly instructed to enforce standards of behavior on the job. The same has to happen online. Not all over the net at once (some workplaces are still rife with sexual harassment despite the law), but the change has to start somewhere, and a site frequented by as many women and girls as men and boys is turning out to be one of the first places that women are seeking to end this tolerance for this second-class treatment.

Street harassment is still legal in most places. In those few countries which are the most progressive on women's rights, guess what? It isn't. The day will come when that is the case more places than it isn't. We can't wait for society to change. Imagine if we'e taken that tack with civil rights for any other group.