Everyone Should Be a Feminist
But we might need a different term for promoting equality
Within twenty-four hours I had two separate conversations where feminism came up as a topic. I was quite proud to say I am a writer, and I said I am writing personal essays about love and life, relationships and sex, and equality and feminism.
Wait, are you a feminist?
In both conversations, it came out like a curse word. As if they were asking me, wait, are you kicking puppies for fun?
It made me think. First, what’s wrong with people? Why don’t they get basic notions and terms? How come that intelligent, educated men fail to understand what feminism is about. Then I started to think, whether there could be something wrong with feminism as a word or term.
The term feminism by definition means the advocacy of women’s rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes. It supports the belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities in social, political or economic situations.
Feminism is about equality. It’s not about superiority and it’s crucial to understand that it is not about sameness. Many attacks the ideology of feminism on the basis that women are not the same as men. This is beyond the question. Men and women are not the same…
