It's with a heavy heart that I am finally beginning to think we need to let go of the word feminist and accept, in it's place, the word "gender equality advocate." I'm not sure if this will help or fan the flames...what I suspect is that it will help a lot of people who hear stories about feminists doing nasty things to hurt and humiliate men and give them more of a ground to comfortably address the fact that a lot of double standards and prejudices based on sex need to be eliminated. Others will still say no men are better than women or vice versa and still others will believe gender equality advocate means that i'm trying to eliminate gender and not realize that i'm not trying to eliminate gender, in fact quite the contrary i love gender, but to eliminate the prejudices that come with gender.
In other words, I still like my girls with super long hair, jewelery, make up, feminine bodies, but what I don't like is them being kept out of the many industries controlled and dominated by males who have no desire to break up the boys club and invite women to compete or the sexual violence that is mainly perpetuated onto women or the lack of health care that address health concerns that only women encounter. I'm not accusing anyone of anything, but if I see this happening I will point it out and call it wrong.
What I want is simple, a world with a lot less prejudice. I know this can never be perfect, but this isn't a reason not to help out and do my part where I can. Think of it like this, genetlemen, if you woke up tomorrow morning as a girl and you walk to some burger shop and it's a 100 degrees so you have shorts and some guy grabs your ass who's ugly and you've never even met before and everyone around you sees this happen and does nothing and you say don't ever do that again and then they call you a b***** who shouldn't have worn shorts if she didn't want her ass grabbed wouldn't you want me, a man confident enough to care about societal group think to say, hey, she can wear whatever she damn well pleases and this guy to leave you alone and for me to go about my business as if nothing happened? Yeah, you would. All it requires from me is to follow the integrity of what I believe to be right and to do so without an ulterior motive. That's not a lot.
So, anyway, after seeing that one of the most popular male right's advocates is a woman I'm realizing calling myself a feminist is a fight I don't need to take on. I advocate for gender equality that is all. I don't care about the radicals of feminists, I don't care about the history of the movement or the future...I just care that girls are allowed to be themselves and feel like society is on their side. Again, not a lot.
Gender Equality is about love for both genders...
Think on the girls that are little right now...don't you want them to grow up in a brave, new world (sorry for the cliche can't help myself) without many of the prejudices that even girls on here have to go through daily?
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