To the girl who states, "I'm An 18-Year-Old Female And I Will Never Be A Feminist," why don't we start off with the fact that the feminism that you claim you want no part of is, what I call, radical feminism. What you agree with is first-wave feminism. So, aren't you actually a feminist?

For those asking "what's the difference?" Feminism is, as the Oxford Dictionary states, "Advocacy of equality of the sexes and the establishment of the political, social, and economic rights of the female sex." Radical feminism is about "destroying the patriarchy"; it's about abolishing male supremacy in everything.

Even so, radical feminists have tainted what the real meaning of feminism is. Many feminist women today are "triggered" when a man tells them to smile or if they say hi to them. I get why you don't want to be considered a feminist. This new wave of feminism is extreme.

But you are a feminist.

Yes, your statement that men and women are not equal is true, but feminism isn't whether or not men and women are equal physically or mentally. Many women cannot, as you say, "carry a 190-pound man back to a safe zone after he was shot on the front line of a war." But then again, men were not built to carry a baby inside of them for nine months. Both men and women are strong physically and mentally in different ways.

But what about economic equality? Legal equality? Social equality?

Women are making less money compared to men, to the dollar. And even more so, women of color make even less compared to white women. Without the women's suffrage movement, we women would not have the right to vote in elections or the ability to even think about running for an election. Without feminism, women would be limited to staying at home and taking care of the family. It wouldn't be socially acceptable to be doing anything else.

So, tell me, what irrelevant point are feminists trying to prove? That we're better than men? Because that isn't what feminism is about.

Feminism is about both men (yes, men) and women coming together to make change in order for women today, and for the women of tomorrow, to have the same opportunities as men. It's about establishing the fact that women work just as hard as men and that we deserve to be equal to our male counterparts.