What an interesting time to be a woman, furthermore, what an interesting time to be alive! Over the past decade there has been a surge within the millennial generation to fight on this pursuit of "feminism". However, I am angered to say that many have manipulated and twisted this pursuit into being a battle of the sexes; an extremist movement where woman are called to claim power and dominate. This is not how this movement was intended, and that is not my feminism. The definition of feminism is the social and political equality of the sexes. This means man and woman, and any pronoun in between, stand together, united and equal. To me feminism means empowering ourselves to be limitless, to be free and capable to accomplish anything that we choose to. Yes, women deserve equal pay to men, but no, we do not demand so because we are greater. This fills me with such distaste and reaps all of us who look toward feminism as an outlet for hope and a means to find a voice in this divided and prejudiced world. Ladies, don't stop shaving your legs and body hair because "men have expected us to be hairless cats" or to spite them and prove something. Grow out your hair because you like having body hair, do it as a reflection of yourself and no other. When we act in spite of another, against "the man", we aren't claiming power, only giving it away. I am proud to be a woman, and have come from a long line of intelligent, strong, nurturing and resilient women. One day, I hope for my daughter to be proud of her femininity as well, but not because women have united and torn apart men in order to accomplish a sense of superiority, but because she feels proud of the skin she bares and the mind she's grown, on her own terms. To me, feminism is an opportunity for men and women to seek their differences and celebrate them in themselves and each other. It is not a competition, because at the core, we are all human beings, and it is only society that adorns us with these labels. It is purely social construct. It is my hope for feminism to empower women to seek their strengths and gifts and to use that to create happiness within themselves and give their greatness to serve the world around them. If each of us could do that, there would be no sexism, no racism, nor words of hate spewed across news castings, social media and unto others. We need to realize that there is no you and he and her and that and them, the only person you have control over is yourself and your own destiny. Yes, we should have equal opportunity to fulfill each of our dreams, but we must realize that this is an individual pursuit. We as human beings were created equal and born unto this world the same way as that man or that women, and it takes every single one of us to comprise a society, to accomplish peace, and we will never find that path so long as we remain divided. So here I am, an equalist, calling for a reclaiming of feminism as it was truly intended to be, calling for all peoples to be the goodness and the love and the uniqueness of their own spirit. I call all men and women to stop radicalizing this movement as a need for women to dominate, and to put down men, and to stop men from doing the same to women, and come together in celebration of our homogenous humanity.