Do you believe in equal rights for males and females? If so, congratulations! You're a feminist! If not then you're probably wondering why I'm writing an article and not cooking you up some meatloaf and sweeping your floors.
Feminists get a bad reputation for hating men, never shaving their legs, and wanting females to be treated better than men which is completely untrue. We want to be treated equally and this doesn't just benefit women either. Men have inequalities on their end, too. Feminists fight for men to be more than every-other-weekend dads. In a lot of cases mothers get custody because they're seen as more caring and nurturing. Men who have been raped get told that "they probably enjoyed it" and "men can't be raped". Mental health issues for men aren't taken seriously because it's seen as weak for a man to be sad or emotional.
Here's a weird concept: just because I was born female doesn't mean that I came out of the womb asking for Barbies and screaming "Give me a pink vacuum cleaner!" Absolutely nothing except society says that girls like pink, dolls, cleaning and cooking and boys like blue, sports, guns, and cars. Society even markets toys that tell girls that they're pretty princesses and boys that they're intelligent doctors.
On average, women make 79 cents for every dollar a man makes. Women make up roughly 84% of single parent households. These women have children to take care of and they're doing so on less salary than men simply because they are a female. Women get paid less to do the exact same thing as a male.
I'm a feminist because if I have a one night stand I'm a slut but if my brother has a one night stand then he's congratulated. I'm a feminist because if my skirt goes past my knees I'm a prude but if it goes to the middle of my thigh I'm asking for it.
I'm a feminist because I don't want my daughter, niece, mother, grandmother, aunt, etc. believing that they cannot be a doctor, that they can't be strong, and that all they're good for is their looks and cleaning abilities. I don't want my son, nephew, father, grandfather, uncle, etc. believing that they cannot be a dancer, that they aren't allowed to cry in fear of looking weak, and that all they're good for is providing for a family and being strong. Feminism is about equality of the sexes, something this world has never had.
