Feminism

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It is no denying that the need for actions against gender inequality is crucial.

Feminism is a movement that will some day, hopefully, be history until the time when every solitary woman on earth will have her rights and live a life not masked with false pretense, shielding years of mental or physical torture or live in the shadow of men around her, not because she doesn't have it but is obligate to, but instead will live a life where she is respected and treated as an equal in economical, political or social standards.

It’s hard to be told to lighten up because if you lighten up any more, you’re going to float the fuck away. The problem is not that one of these things is happening, it’s that they are all happening, concurrently and constantly.
These are just songs. They are just jokes. They are just movies. It’s just a hug. They’re just breasts. Smile, you’re beautiful. Can’t a man pay you a compliment? In truth, this is all a symptom of a much more virulent cultural sickness—one where women exist to satisfy the whims of men, one where a woman’s worth is consistently diminished or entirely ignored.
—Roxane Gay, “What Men Want, America Delivers,” Salon

Isn't it time to change the way the our lives are running? Isn't it time for women to feel safe walking on the lone streets in the dark of night? Isn't it time that we stop assuming things about a women's character because, substantially, we don't have the right.

To bring a change is not a big deal but to maintain it has often caused chaos in history.

Isn't it time to change history for good?

Feminism is important because a talented woman should not constrict herself because of her looks at all.

Feminism is important because woman should not have to be quaint due to fear of being judged. Judging is not a right anyone has.

Feminism is important because every once in a while the voice that speaks for equality, is always a women's.

Feminism is important because on the stage of life, we are all equal characters cosplaying various emotions.

Feminism is important because we need it.

If some coerce us to believe that feminism as a matter has been stretch to the limit of proportionality with nothing in it left for women, then I would like to ask them why women uphold nearly only 20% of seats and do their jobs with approximately 23% pay gap compared to men. Why it is the women who gets beaten up? Why it is the women who are asked to wear "appropriate clothes"? Why we grow up learning about princesses who lived happily ever after only after meeting the prince.

So rather than hear about the stigma men feel in terms of taking care of kids, I’d like for men to think more about the stigma that women feel when they’re trying to build a career and a family. And then measure whatever angst they’re feeling against the real systemic forces that devalue the labor of women. I think that’s what’s at the root of much of this: When some people do certain work we cheer. When others do it we yawn.
—Ta-Nehisi Coates, “Why I’m Against ‘Daddy Days’,” The Atlantic

We need feminism because after marriage, the woman is expected to take the man's last name and move into his house.

We need feminism because along with clothes and toys, even chocolates like 'kinder joy' come in boy and girl flavour.

We need feminism because female foeticide is still practiced in parts of the world today.

We need feminism because majority of building companies appoint men as labours expecting women to be weak at the job, thereby reducing job opportunity and increasing unemployment.

We need feminism because marital rape is not rape and any kind of rape criminal can walk free in our country and most of the time, the victim is blamed.

We need feminism because alcohol excuses a man's actions and condemn's the woman's.

We need feminism because the woman is asked to wear un-exposing clothes instead of the man being taught to stop staring.

We need feminism because in remote areas widows are still obligated to burn themselves to be with their husband while the widower can re-marry.

We need feminism because women need to carry pepper spray to feel safe on the streets at night.

When you type 'what is feminism' onto google, it defines it as "the advocacy of woman's rights on the ground of the inequality of sexes." Majority of today's dexterous population would trust Google upon their teachers, parents or friends -including me, but this one time, I would beg to differ.

The correct definition should be "The consequential fight of woman's right due to the hopelessness of hu-mans and the delaying of consent on grounds of equality of sexes."

Isn't this elucidation much more competent, absolute and unmasked in accordance with reality?Doesn't this speak more clearly to what we are hoping?

For feminism is not about empowering women to be the highest stratum of sexes. Nor is it about making women more durable and stronger because we already are and we know that.

Feminism is a fight, not fought by the entire population of angry young feminists enraged with the functioning of the world or bored college girls looking for a group activity or women who wish to be upgraded to a level regarded greater than that of men but a rigorous fight faught by the ones who believe in gender equality in every aspect what so ever and want to share that fact with the entirety of the world.

And I want to try and convey to you, broadly, how you are hurting women and hurting your own art form, and how easy it would be to stop. Because right now you’re coming across like a bunch of entitled babies terrified of a few girls in your clubhouse—demanding that women be thick-skinned about their own rapes while you’re too thin-skinned to handle even mild criticism. It’s embarrassing.

—Lindy West, “An Open Letter to White Male Comedians,” Jezebel

As much as we would all like to believe that the twenty first century in itself summons certain perceiving of basic human rights amongst it's diverse entrants, we often distinctly, stand corrected.

The contemporary lifestyle of all global citizens prevails to question the understanding of certain aspects that have previously established as norms on our dear planet and although the realization hand has struck on a universal level, it has not quite reverberated on the cultural lands of India and amongst its million daughters who stand as loyal victims on the threshold of their 'family honor'. No, not their honor -as it would be interpreted by those who consider them as human with self dignity but in fact it is their 'family honor' that is at stake.

Why, you ask? It is their tenderness, fragility and soft tongue that often gets in the way, isn't it? No, it isn't. Not you, not me or anyone else on this forlorn planet has the right to judge a women by that nature. The same way, there is no reason to misinterpret the inhumane strength, willingness, power in a man and expect them to be muscly, less sentimental or soft hearted.

Axing the hierarchy of one gender over the other, is just one convenient step away.
Emulate your steps in fighting for a little change in a shop, a little seat on a train, a little ticket on a bus, a little food from your friend, a little understanding from your parent and soon, we can be part of a world, where fighting for gender equality is history.

The food, it seems, becomes an extension of this happy nuclear family, the way it should be according to the heteronormative social mandate; with the woman writer only achieving fame and/ or wealth through her pursuits because they are at the service of the family (and not because she is deserving of the accolades in her own right; it’s the combination of cooking/ photography skills and traditional motherhood that makes this business model successful).
—Flavia Dzodan, “Some thoughts about sexual normativity in food writing,” Red Light Politics

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