I've always been a feminism. It's been something I'm proud of, and didn't realize I was until the whole hullabaloo of it all started exploding a couple years ago.

There are times I have remained quiet when I probably should've spoken up about it. It still happens, and I catch myself biting my tongue because I'm too afraid of what others may think.

This past week, a lot of things have caught my eye. One being Donald Trump and his supposed "locker room talk" about women. Another was when I was walking on the sidewalk with my friends and a group of boys yelled out of the car about my body. I was wearing jeans and a sweater. I remember a couple years ago, when my friends would be cat-called and they didn't know any better but to like it. I remember wanting it too. Wanting to be rewarded for the way I looked, because for a lot of us girls, that's all we've been taught.

Other things that have caught my eye are Reshma Saujani's Ted Talk about teaching girls to be brave, and a video we watched in class called "Potty-Mouthed Princess."

Reshma says, "We have to socialize our girls to be comfortable with imperfection and we gotta do it now." She also says, "We have to show them to be loved and accepted not for being perfect, but for being courageous."

I don't remember a time where society told me that being imperfect was a good thing, until recently. Being pretty is a compliment, yes! But being pretty has absolutely nothing to do with my power, my intelligence and my simple right as a human being.

Pottymouth Princess brings up topics like sexual abuse. These little girls in this video bring up that one out of every five women will be sexually assaulted. They then count from 1 to 5, and say, "Which one of us will it be?" They reply, "How many more women will get knocked down before society gets up and stops it?"

I don't know about you, but society has made me feel less than ever before. A possible next president of our country says sexual assault is locker room talk, boys like Brock Turner can get a "get out of jail free card" for being a swimming superstar and having money, and men can get away with yelling out the car window about my butt with not knowing any different.

It's almost humerous to me that lots of men continue to treat women like property. Did they forget where they came from? That's right, yes, a woman.

Ladies, it's time we stand up even more than we have. It's time for people like me, instead of being scared, to raise our hand and speak. The world needs to change, and I know that by me sitting back and watching isn't going to help.