Why is Feminism considered such a bad thing
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as a kid i never really saw much of a
difference between boys
and girls except for the fact that girls
had
long hair and boys not as much
but as time progressed i could see that
not many people
viewed it the same way i could see
that i was being refrained from doing
certain things
just because i was a girl i would always
be told to act
politely and mature because i was a girl
whereas boys on the other hand were free
to do
whatever they wanted under the phrase
boys will be boys personally
i found this extremely offensive
i didn’t like the way i was being
treated
and the measly justifications i received
yet again there’s very little a
four-year-old could do about it though
over the years the inequality i faced
only got worse
and the saddest part was that i couldn’t
do anything about it
if i were to speak up against this
people would say that i
had a big mouth or that i was talking
too much for a kid
now this would be the part where i say
that i
am a feminist when i say that
i am a feminist this opens a door to
numerous questions people tend to ask me
why are you a feminist aren’t you
a bit too young to be a feminist you’ve
never faced inequality then why do you
want to be a feminist
what are you trying to prove and so
many more well
personally i never considered the term
feminism to have such a huge backlash
in fact as a kid i would often wonder
why the concept of equality
tends to bother people so very much
and what was so wrong about having a
little girl support her
gender rights it could be said that
everything i
face so far is very little compared to
what women
across the globe have to face on a daily
basis
which is most definitely true yet it
isn’t a justification to why i
shouldn’t stand up for myself and other
women
i am forced to grow up in a society
where i know
that no matter how hard i work i would
never be paid as much as a man i know
that despite
everything i might bring to my family in
the future
i would never be able to make my own
decisions
and i know that my thoughts and my
opinions
could easily be overruled by those of a
man’s
and that is why i am a feminist
just because all of this doesn’t affect
me right now
doesn’t mean it never will
i remember prancing around in my little
red dress as a kid
without a care in the world when
all of a sudden my family members would
say go put on a pair of pants underneath
or
go change well to be honest i didn’t
really care about this much and just did
as they said
but now as i look back at it it’s
nauseating how little girls are forced
to cover up
just because individuals in our society
today
have stooped low enough to sexualize
even
small children me at age 5 had to go
change just because fully grown men
weren’t educated enough to leave little
kids alone
in society today it’s deduced that a
feminist is an
anti-social unattractive woman who’s
unlovable by men rather than just
viewing how all they want
is equality for both the sexes
i remember parents often being upset
over the birth of a girl child and they
would be taunted by external family
members too
in fact i’ve heard individuals ask my
parents why they didn’t consider having
a son next
they would have said that he would have
played a bigger role in their lives and
that
he would have been there for them when i
couldn’t
it this reminds me of a quote i heard a
while ago
written by kumari dorothy the hand that
rocks the cradle
the procreator the mother of tomorrow
a woman shapes the destiny of
civilization
such is a tragic irony of fate that a
beautiful creation such as a girl child
is today one of the greatest concerns
facing humanity yet
it could be said that today women have a
lot more
support and understanding from across
the globe
in fact organizations like the un have
headed a campaign
called he for she this is basically on
how we
need the support and understanding of
men
in order to have advancements for women
across the globe
other places such as schools and
workplaces too
have become more understanding in terms
of discrimination
by gender but we’re not quite there yet
in order to finally gain equality
we need every woman and man
to call himself or herself a feminist
it’s really not something to be looked
down upon thank you