Hello, anti-feminist.

As you read this, what are you reading it on? Possibly a laptop, a computer, or even your phone. Well, if you are, you can thank Dr. Grace Murray Hopper, the inventor of the first user-friendly business computer software program and Ada Lovelace, who developed a way to program the “analytic engine” (a really old computer) with mathematical algorithms and led to future computer programming, so thanks for that! Oh, and if you're reading this with your woman-engineered gadget while connected to WiFi, you can thank Heddy Lamarr for inventing it! So, next time you feel like leaving a hate comment that's derogatory towards women, think about how you wouldn't be able to do that in the first place without women helping you!

I know that news might be a lot to take in all at once with that tiny brain of yours, but don't hyperventilate! Otherwise, you might have to breathe into a paper bag (invented by Margaret Knight) or drink some beer (invented by Mesopotamian women, according to researcher Jane Peyton) from your electric refrigerator (invented by Florence Parpart) to calm down. Maybe you could take a relaxing drive, and turn on the heater (invented by Margaret A. Wilcox) to calm down. I bet you're glad that exists in these cold months, don't ‘cha?

If you're still panicking, you could go to the hospital and get some a dose of something calming in a syringe (invented by Letitia Geer) to relax. I know the idea of a woman inventing something necessary for you to function/enjoy life might be difficult to grasp, but I promise you'll get over it. Maybe you can do something to take your mind off of things. Make some chocolate chip cookies (invented by Ruth Wakefield), iron some clothes (the ironing board was invented by Sarah Boone), or wash some dishes (dishwasher invented by Josephine Cochran) if you want. Oh wait! Silly me! That's women's work, cooking and cleaning. You're too much of a misogynist to do something that basic! You should find something manly to do, like use a circular saw (invented by Tabitha Babbit) to make a deck, or take a selfie (with a camera with glass engineered by Katharine Blodgett) to appreciate your manliness and display it to the world.

If all of this is still too much to handle, put on a diaper (invented by Marion Donovan) and go cry about it to your mama. Too bad the woman who had the displeasure of carrying and making you for 9 months has to listen to you complain about her gender, huh?

The truth is, the ideology of sexism, as most of us know, is completely ridiculous. The power and influence of women in the modern world is essential and equally important to men, and our impact will never be fully known due to the many inventors throughout history that needed their husbands to patent their inventions for them, since women for many years were not taken seriously in the engineering industry. The truth is, you need women in the working world, and if women believed you when you say “a woman’s place is in the home” your life would be 10 times more miserable than it already is.

Sincerely,

Powerful Women Everywhere (which is sort of redundant).

Sources:

"Inventions By Women." Inventions By Women. Factmonster.com, n.d. Web. 22 Jan. 2017.

Jewell, Hannah. "18 Inventions By Women That Changed The World."BuzzFeed. N.p., 11 Aug. 2014. Web. 22 Jan. 2017.

R, Vasundara. "10 Cool Things Men Would Never Believe Were Invented by Women."IDiva.com. N.p., 6 May 2015. Web. 22 Jan. 2017.