If you're offended by women striving to be seen as "people", I would advise you not to read further.

Well now that Omar is making connections in LA and moving his acting career forward, I am awash with the diversity of sausage working together for their "greater goals". They may tell me:

"I'm sorry, Elle, I fully agree with what you're saying. Women should be involved, but that's just not the battle we're trying to fight right now. We're trying to make other kinds of change."

Not that your other kinds of change aren't equally important, but how do you expect to bring about any real change with only 50% of the population working with you toward that goal?

What I'm saying is that we all need to be on the same page.

No more of this, "Women are not welcome because they are a distraction."

My mere presence is a distraction? Am I really so strong of an influence?

Or is the reality simply that you cannot be bothered to control your impulses, like the rest of us do?

I googled images of "women" to use in this post, and the first three tags that came up for refining my search were,

"hot"

"thick"

and "bare".

When I googled "men" I got,

"shower"

"bed"

and "locker room".

Huh... that's funny. The tags associated with women were all adjectives describing desirable women. The ones associated with men were places. Amazing. Admittedly, those locations associated with men are likely sexualized, but the pivotal difference here is that the woman herself is sexualized, while the man is placed in a sexual setting.

I am a person. I go to places. I act and react. I am more than a [insert your visual description of me here] woman.

So why do you think men have such a hard time seeing women as people, rather than objects of sexual desire? Blame it on the media, right? They produce so many sexualized images of women in comparison to the strong, sharp, well-put-together image of a man. But tell me, who decides what the content of these images will be? More men.

So men, we need more from you than just agreement. To agree with the fact that there is a problem is not enough. We need you to act on our behalf, because when you do that, you are also acting on behalf of men, women, and every gender in between. We are all one humanity.

Fight the gender rift.

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