I know the original meaning and definition that feminism has. A feminist supposedly believes in gender equality, they believe that regardless gender or sex (there is a difference between the two) all people should be treated equally!
Under this definition I am a feminist.
My classmates probably saw this title and rolled their eyes, "Great, she's talking about feminism again."
Just wait, be patient, it gets interesting I promise.
I should start by mentioning that not all people who refer to themselves as feminists do not act as feminists. These people do not actually act for the equality of sex or gender, but want and work for matriarchy (the opposite of patriarchy or a society where women "rule" over men). They treat feminism as a revenge mechanism on the male population to equal out all those years of patriarchy that women had live through.
This is not feminism nor was ever feminism, it is an extremism that cannot be tolerated. Two wrongs does not make a right, that is, revenge is ugly and perhaps worse than doing what was bad in the first place that suppposedly "deserves" this revenge, because those who put it into effect have seen and felt the original pain of the original state.
When I was growing up, I was obnoxious. I was loud, and thought what I had to say was the most important. I was a kid, an only child taught that everyone loved and thought I was cute and funny and wanted to hear what I had to say, so I said it. I was selfish and proud and prejudice. Some might say today I am the same, obnoxious, annoyingly know-it-all. I will not say that I am not loud, or eager to share my opinion because as I am myself, I can be biased, however I would like to think in the last few years, if not the last few months in Germany I have learned better to listen. I used to be intolerant to undecideness towards feminism, I knew many a girl that did not want to say she was a feminist, I would bombard until they gave in, I would angrily glare at those who uttered sexist jokes against women, but laughed whole heartedly at those against men.... I was unrelenting, and incredibly hypocritical. Veerrry stubborn- I'm still very stubborn, but I understand the undecideness towards feminism. There are many women who are "feminists" and display it in an aggressive attack on men (perhaps I was one of them, in which case I apologize), who wants to be part of that?
I like making sandwiches for my friends, for my family. Sometimes the people you love deserve a well-made, loved, and cared PB&J after the hard day of work. I would not blink before doing such a thing for someone I love. I have made sandwiches for men, and in the future I intend to as well. But then again the people I do make sandwiches for don't yell at me to "make them a sandwich, WOMAN, why aren't you in the kitchen?" or if they do it is always playfully intended and not maliciously. sometimes we just have to be a little less sensitive about things, breath in, breath out, live on.
I don't mean shove things down peoples throats anymore, I shall never do it again. I do not want to fight a grown-up debate by whining and screaming and pushing and acting like a child that doesn't have their own way. It is crude and dumb and political, and I am not a politician, I am a person.
Hope you guys had a great weekend! Here is it 24 degrees Celsius, which is actually rather hot. (Where did the new warm spring days go, it seems like we sprung from super cold to super hot!? Ick : P)
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