Feminism - Let's Talk About It

FEMINISM - Let's Talk About It

 

 

 

Feminism VS. New Age Feminism - IE Radical Feminism:

 

 

I'm about to step on some toes so get ready to lift your legs. In today's society I've noticed a lot of women in my generation latching on to this new age feminism. As a woman who was raised by strong female figures I consider myself a feminist. However, my definition of feminism is very different from the rest in my generation. Feminism to me is the advocacy for all women's right to be treated equally on social, economic and political grounds. Even Google agrees with me... Now that being said I do not advocate telling women that they have to live a certain way in order for them to be considered feminist nor would I tell a woman that she had to be a feminist.

 

The idea of feminism began because women were tired of being oppressed by men. Women were tired of being disrespected by society. They were tired of being told who to be and what to do. Yet somewhere along the way men stopped being the main oppressors and now it's other women. With large blog sites like Hello Giggles and Buzz Feed we have this new age feminism that tells women to over analyze every situation because the name of a lipstick is hurting the women's movement. (seriously this is an article done by Hello Giggles). My favorite article I read recently was the dissection of Megan Trainors new song Dear Future Husband. A writer criticizes her because she sings about being a "perfect" wife as long as her husband treats her right. So are we now saying that if a woman chooses to be a stay at home mom that she's wrong??!!

 

 

I'm all for loving yourself for who you are and wanting to be treated with respect but I'm also all for choosing who you want to be. First the issue was society wanted you to be the perfect babe so that guys would like you and now it seems society wants you to be the perfect feminist so other women will like you? What the hell are we doing to our society here ladies. We should be focusing on REAL issues like the Mexican government hiding evidence of missing women in their country or the oppression of women in the Middle East. How about the thousands of women being abused? Or the ones who are starving? If we want to fight for women we should be fighting for their livelihoods not getting mad over the fact that they'd rather cook meals at home than try and become a CEO!

 

I believe that feminism is important to hold on to only because I believe that equalism for everyone is important to hold on to. Attacking a woman because she chooses to live her life differently than you is disrespectful and quite frankly offensive. By other women saying that its wrong for an artist to sing about scrubbing floors and buying groceries for her husband they are basically saying that its wrong to be a stay at home mom. The other issue I have is pretending that women are victims of every little thing.

 

When we write articles about how its wrong to critique artists just because they're women we're basically saying that women aren't strong enough to handle constructive criticism. I'm not talking about people who bash artists or celebrities. However everyone is entitled to an opinion and just because I don't like Megan Trainor doesn't make me a woman hater!! And honestly its offensive to Megan Trainor and all the other female artists to suggest that they can't handle "haters" or ya know people who aren't into their form of art! Come on we don't want men to tell us we're weak but we also don't want anyone to ever tell us we're wrong? That's not being treated equal that's being treated like a spoiled child with a quick temper.

 

 

So please I beg of you stop worrying about the names of lipsticks, and the lyrics of Megan Trainor because that's not helping women. Start worrying about the real issues and please for goodness sake do some research on feminism.

 

Much love,

Maggie V.