Hello, lovely readers.
How about having some healthy discussion? I would love to take the liberty and pleasure of initiating the discourse. Let’s communicate our opinions on Feminism. I would be expressing mine and I expect your replies, even if your opinions do not correspond with mine.
The Oxford Dictionary defines Feminism as, “The advocacy of women’s rights on the ground of the equality of the sexes.”
The word Feminism strikes various connotations. Some people, of whom I happen to be one, take this word to be a faculty inspiring equal rights and equal respect for all human beings, irrespective of their sexes. Others perceive it as a malicious agent engaged in a spiteful mission of curbing the rights of male humans and push them towards oblivion while empowering female humans to the extent of social absurdity. Again there are people who talk in favour of gender prejudice; some against the males and some against the females. Which one stands true upon the factual grounds of the contemporary world?
A new word has recently come into trend these days – “Feminazism” (female+Nazism). In my opinion, this is the word that befits the male-hating community. This, according to me, is the apt rival word for misogyny. Feminism on the other hand, is a synonym for humanism. It simply promotes a genial ambience to be made available for the sexes. As a social media addict, I can bet on the statement that the word feminism is thoroughly misinterpreted. Hateful comments against feminism and feminists are seen everywhere. I have come across several instances in the social media where people spit detestable comments against feminists. Some even consider them as being a threat to the social order. Let me clear it out once and for all. A feminist will never wish to preserve the exclusive privileges for women just the way he/she doesn’t approve of the ones for men. They despise injustice and oppression regardless of the sex of the victim. If you see a person who is otherwise, he/she must very well be a misogynist or a feminazi.
What I have stated so far must have stamped a question mark upon the exclusive need for feminism when humanism is already there and practiced. Because for a long time the world has ignored that females too are humans, for a long time the embodiment of a part of the civilization my females have been disregarded, for a long time the equal contributions of women towards the integrated existence have been overlooked, for a long time they have been looked down upon as second class citizens and till time the human kind is still referred to as just mankind. Feminism is needed because the world needs to be enlightened of the very existence of female humans.
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