Did you know on average in the U.S. women make 84 cents for every dollar men make? Did you know domestic violence, 1 in every 4 women, is more common than breast cancer, 1 in every 8 women? Did you know that less than 25% of countries in the world have had a woman in charge? As the next generation is getting older it’s time to change the way we teach boys and girls about equality. Why do we teach our children how great it is that women got the right to vote, but not about how bad it is that women have lower starting salaries than men? The more we educate the next generation about feminism the more likely it is that one of them will grow up to change all of the inequalities women face.
Feminism is not a dirty word. It is not a word that should be avoided in conversation. In fact, it’s a word we need to be using more. It’s time to start talking about how messed up it is that just because of a difference in anatomy women are treated differently than men. There seems to be a looming stereotype that men can do things better than women can; that men are smarter than women, even. Well did you know the two people with the highest recorded IQs are women? This is not to say that women are better than men. Rather, it’s to say that women are just as good as men.
Feminism should not, and does not, mean pitting women and men against each other. Why does it have to be a competition? Women should not constantly have to wonder if what they’re doing is good enough in comparison to the standards set by men. “Potty Mouthed Princesses Drop F Bombs For Feminism” is such an important video that needs to go more viral than it already has. It teaches women and girls alike that the inequalities women face are not okay. It teaches men and boys that treating women any differently than they would treat another man is sexism. Instead of teaching young girls to stay quiet about feminism we need to be teaching them to say, “fuck that sexist shit” (“Potty Mouthed Princesses Drop F Bombs For Feminism”).
