The Silver Scroll

MODERN FEMINISM IS IMPORTANT

Maggie Strauser.

If you don’t support feminism in America, or really modern feminism anywhere, and think that feminism has done nothing to change or help anything in the world, then you most likely have the incorrect definition of “feminism.”

Feminism, by definition, is “the advocacy of women’s rights on the grounds of political, social, and economic equality to men.” In broader terms, and more modern terms, “feminism” fights for the equality of everyone (for all genders and sexes to be equal). It does not mean that “women want to be better than men,” or that “women are superior to men” because that’s misandry[1] (the opposite of misogyny[2]).

It’s called “feminism” and not “humanism” or any other name because it focuses on women, and because it focuses on the feminine traits that have been viewed as unfavorable in society. Real talk: women can be aggressors, men can be abused, and men can cry and have feminine traits. Men don’t have to be big and strong, and women don’t have to be demure and weak. There needs to be acceptance of feminine traits in men and masculine traits in women.

Not only that, but women need to have their bar raised to meet men, who have far more power. But when women want something, men seem to want it, too. And that’s a problem, because that prevents the scale from being balanced. If you need a visual, here it is:

            men

                                women

   

See how men are way higher up than women are? If we give women something men don’t have (like giving women a little more power over men) and make it like this--that would be great:

                men                women

But then there are men that complain that they want it, too, to make it “balanced” (even though it already is) like this--which is literally right where we started. Keep that in mind.

                men

                                women

[1] mis·an·dry

miˈsandrē/

noun

1. dislike of, contempt for, or ingrained prejudice against men (i.e., the male sex).

[2] mi·sog·y·ny

məˈsäjənē/

noun

1. dislike of, contempt for, or ingrained prejudice against women.
2. "she felt she was struggling against thinly disguised misogyny"