He for she?

Hello everyone!

As the title reads, today I'm going to be tacking a quite controversial and perception based topic. I know that people have different views and ways of looking at things, which I would love to hear about, I by no means mean to shove my opinion into your face or am trying to change your own opinions. My blog was made for a place for me to display my own thoughts and hear other people's, so this isn't me saying that I'm right and you're wrong.

Today's society is beginning to become more and more aware about the topic of feminism. As the media begins to scan over it some more, and better known people begin to draw attention to it, today's pop culture and youth are taking notice. However, change seems to be following a little behind. Today in one of my classes I was listening intently to the opinions of a few of my classmates and was intrigued to listen to what they thought of the concept, especially a few of the men.

When we were younger feminism was a word that we learnt to be afraid of. In my mind, the word meant that a few intimidating ladies were trying to make themselves superior to the rest of us. In my mind, that was scary and unfair. However that picture was only painted by the other judging minds of the people surrounding me, and the people informing me on the subject. Feminism by definition is the movement for granting women equal political, economic, cultural and social rights. What feminism is is the movement of getting everyone on even ground, as we were born.

I thought it was romantic when a guy chased after a girl after she explicitly told him no, in my mind the lady was always in despair while the gentleman rode up in shining armour to save her, the fact that women are not paid as much as men in some countries was an accepted fact when I was younger, in history classes no one really stopped to question why women weren't allowed to vote or have any other political rights unless someone compared it to human rights in recent days. I have been conditioned, since I was little, to accept these facts and only with this recent light have I been able to realise that this isn't just acceptable.

There are videos now - videos of just about everything on the internet - but some of these videos really display what I'm talking about. Attached will be a few of these videos. These show the street harassment that women have to deal with every single day, these show the new strides women are taking to beat these things down, these videos show men, and even other women, taking advantage of women as we are seen as the inferior. We are not the inferior, we are just touching the tip of the iceberg to show that we are equal.

What really annoys me is when men tell you, for lack of better words, to suck it up. Suck it up, why? I personally think that this topic scares some people, like the Big Bang theory scared some people. Society, as a whole, is so used to men being in authority and having higher power that now when women start taking tiny steps towards any direction, it immediately becomes a threat. Women are finally getting the recognition they deserve and their opinions are only beginning to be heard, and I think this is a step in the right direction.

Of course I'm a feminist, I would be an idiot not to be on my own side.

Much love,

Duchess

ATTACHED

Videos:

Street Harassment

He For She

Catcalling

Links:

Street Harassment Survey