Before anything pertaining to sexism is stated, I want to make it perfectly clear that I wholeheartedly believe in equal genders. I am a history major that has studied the societies of the past that mostly succeeded. With Feminism at its all-time high, someone has to be the voice of the one subject that feminists are afraid to talk about. Feminists are more than happy to mention unequal wages or how men get the better jobs. But few, if any, of those female activists are able to admit that there is a movement that has gone on for decades on this end of the spectrum.

They scream and protest when a man makes $0.50 higher than they do at the same job, but here are a few instances that feminists will sadly overlook.

1. Food Service:

I personally have almost a decade of food service experience. I have held every position in a restaurant from bus boy (A gender-specific term, which I will get back to in a moment) all the way to assistant manager.

I applied at a restaurant here in Cedar Falls at the same time as a friends wife. Here is her food service experience: None. She is a CNA (Certified Nurses Assistant). She has no actual food service experience in any fashion. Now, one could argue that as a CNA she needed to take the tray off a cart and put it on the table for her patients. But is that really food service experience? I think it had everything to do with her gender. Ninety-percent of companies will not hire male waiters (or "servers", as they are called now). So this establishment hired someone based off of their gender and not on experience. The interesting part is the managers there at the restaurant are all female, so I cannot even argue that it was male manager that simply wanted "eye candy."

Another blaring example of unmentioned sexism towards males in the food service Industry is the obvious one. The bus boy. Even in this day in age of horrible over political correctness, the bus boy still exists. When females are hired in their first position in a restaurant, where are they placed? Either hostess or server. Males are placed either as a busboy, dishwasher or as a cook. I find it hilariously ironic that feminists claim that all males want women to stay in the kitchen, cook and wash dishes when that is exactly where all men are placed in the food service Industry.

Where are the feminists crying to become dishwashers and bus people?

2. Office Work:

This is another place where sexism runs rampant. Yes, it is true that males in business make more than women, which should be fixed. But where are the feminists when males cannot get jobs as receptionists? Or front desk greeters? I am going for a business administration degree with the full knowledge that I will have a far harder time getting a job being of my gender. I have to live with the fact that a female with fewer qualifications will be more likely to get hired simply because she is far better looking than any male that applies, which is sad, because due to my next example, I cannot handle manual labor in any fashion, because I was forced to do manual labor until I broke my back while females got to skip the whole manual labor part of grunt labor and skip directly to office work.

3. Warehouse / Factory:

Sadly, the days of World War II are gone with the days of the wives and sisters taking up arms in the fields that men usually held are gone.

I worked for a pork processing plant here in Iowa that had us lifting boxes that ranged from 20 lbs. up to 125 lbs. It is not the first box that breaks your back, more like the 800th box in an hour that does. I worked for that company for almost four years and I never saw a female back in the freezer with me throwing boxes until the disks in her back bulged or herniated. So now I am in that lovely catch 22 where I am too disabled to work (manual labor, anyway), but not disabled enough to get assistance from the state. Even as I write this with my cane leaning against my desk for when I attempt to rise out of my chair, I have yet to hear about a woman in that position.

4. Child Care:

For some reason, the populous seems to think that men make horrible children caregivers. I am 31 years old and over the years, I have helped raise over 10 different children that are not mine. I personally have no children of my own. But with step children, friend's children, nephews and nieces — And the random assortment of children that have come to either live in my house or that the family has come to more or less adopt over the years, there are countless more children that I can count in the pile of young people that I have influenced. So why is an unwritten rule that men cannot raise children?

The only job I would be able to get when it comes to child care is either a preschool teacher or the cook for a day care. But very few establishments would hire a male a sole day caregiver.

5. Sexism:

The definition of Sexism is this: attitudes orbehaviorbasedontraditionalstereotypesofgenderroles.

Now, the interesting point of that word meaning is the fact that it does not say that only males can be sexist. Does anyone else notice that? It is common knowledge that when people say the word sexist that it is assumed that it is a male abusing his power. When you saw the title of this article, you more than likely assumed the same thing.

The reason behind that belief is this. Female activists can scream and protest all they like. What would happen if the male population stood up and did the same thing? It would be a riot of women everywhere claiming that any male fights against the oppression that is done onto them are sexist male chauvinist pigs...

So we are forced to simply take the abuse because we are not allowed to mention that "Hey! There are two sides to every story!"

When it comes to sexism, there are two sides. There are abuses of power on both sides. I will be the first man to admit that there is some male slime out there that only want females to be degraded to the point of nonexistence. That if these men could find a way to create a baby without females that they probably would. But, that being said, we as a society cannot fully reach gender equality without recognizing the wrong doings on both sides.

For every male tamping down women back into the 1920s, there are just as many women tamping down men into backbreaking servitude for no reason other then they are male.

The moral of this story is, there are always two sides of a story. Don't just look at what effects you personally, but look at the big picture. And don't throw bricks if you live in a glass house.