Many young women are coming forward to express their disapproval of modern-day feminism and the Women's March as of late.

Personally, I attended both the Women's March in Lansing in 2017, and the one-year anniversary march last weekend on January 21st. This is my response to those who are questioning why we march.

I would like to address those women that are asking "What's wrong with wanting to be a stay-at-home mom?" I will answer for every single feminist that I know: nothing. There is absolutely nothing wrong with wanting to stay at home, have children, and raise a family.

But, I counter with this: what's wrong with a man wanting to be a stay-at-home father? What's wrong with a woman who wants to have a career and raise children? The end goal is for everyone to have the ability to choose what they want to do; for that to happen everybody needs to be offered equal opportunities.

In addition to women commenting about the march, I personally received multiple comments from men regarding the march.

For example, I received questions similar to "What do you think this is going to do?" and "So now you girls can change your own flat tires from now on?"

If these questions were genuine, I would be willing to engage in a respectful conversation about it, but these comments were laced with sarcasm and disdain. But, I would like to remind those men that are criticising the movement, that feminism is about social, economic, and political equality of both sexes and all genders.

It's not something that women just "benefit" from. Men will no longer be held up to all of society's expectations of a "true man."

Men don't have to be the breadwinners and head of the household, and they especially don't have to be afraid of showing emotion. We should stop yelling at young boys who are crying to "be a man" and "stop acting like a girl." Not only does this disregard the boy's thoughts or feelings, but simultaneously offends girls for being the "weaker sex."

I am continuously reminded that women in the United States have the right to vote, drive, and hold public office, which is significantly more than what women in some other countries can do; this is phenomenal.

Women in the United States have made incredible strides towards equality, but we still aren't quite there yet. When I am reminded of the priveledges that we do have, all I can say is, yes but we can do better. Aren't we supposed to be the best country in the world? Shouldn't we be a model for the rest of the world to see what equality really looks like?

This is why we march. We have the freedom to march and hope that one day, our privileges here will spread to our sisters around the world.