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PLEASE READ, INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT:
FEMINISM:
noun
the advocacy of women's rights on the ground of the equality of the sexes.
synonyms: the women's movement, the feminist movement, women's liberation, female emancipation, women's rights...
EQUALITY.
NOT FUCKING MAN HATING.
A BOY IN MY CLASS TODAY LAUGHED AT ME FOR ASKING IF HE WAS A FEMINIST. He said: "you know I am a boy, right?" And I nodded, before he laughed again and said: "exactly, so It would be sort of defeating the point." NO. JUST NO.
Feminism is not male < female
It's about
Male = female.
And people who say: "well sexism doesn't even really exist in my country." WELL SAY THAT TO THE THOUSANDS OF WOMEN IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES WHO STILL CAN'T EVEN GET A JOB BECAUSE OF THEIR FUCKING GENDER. GO TELL THAT TO THE MILLIONS OF WOMEN WHO ARE RAPED, AND YET THEIR PLEAS IGNORED BECAUSE OF HOW THEY WERE BORN. GO COMPLAIN ABOUT THAT TO THE THOUSANDS OF TRANS WOMEN WHO STILL ARE RIDICULED AND ARE NOT ACCEPTED FOR BEING AND EMBRACING WHO THEY ARE. SOMETIMES IT'S NOT ABOUT YOU, YOU SELF CENTERED PEOPLE. SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO THINK ABOUT WHO YOU ARE FIGHTING FOR. I AM FIGHTING FOR THE WOMEN WHO STILL STRUGGLE WITH SEXISM EVERYDAY.
AND YES, MOST MEN ARE COMPLETELY RESPECTFUL, SOME ARE ALSO FEMINISTS, BUT TO SAY "I DON'T NEED FEMINISM," IS SAYING YOU DON'T NEED EQUALITY.
AND SINCE WHEN HAS THAT BEEN A TRUE STATEMENT??