Feminism

I am one of those women who cannot entirely admit themselves to the conviction of feminism.

I am a woman and I want equal rights and equal opportunities regardless of sex, status, or race. I despise the degradation of any human right. Before a feminist, I consider myself an advocate of human rights first and foremost.

I am a feminist in in the dictionary meaning of the word, but I really despise the connotations of being a feminist. I don’t belong to a sexist political movement. I don’t want to be associated with the people who have defined feminism as a shrill puritanical man-hating sect. Feminism is not and shouldn't be anti-men. Feminism should be positive. But what’s happening? Most of time, I see antagonistic radical women ranting and nagging about extremist nonsense encouraging female bigotry. The so-called feminists abuse statistics of any social ideology in the most dreadful way. They fail to be open-minded most of the time and, in contrast, entertain malice regularly. Oftentimes, they use dishonesty and exaggeration to convert women. Sometimes feminism tends to be authoritarian and puritanical just like old patriarchs, it is determined to manage women's lives.

I think people have forgotten what it actually means to be a feminist. Sometimes I just think that feminism is a bunch of separate interest groups who can make no concerted impact on society. They rant about abuse, prostitution and rape when in the first place, these are not just alarming towards women. In fact, everyone, every human being who is thinking and possessess some sort of feeling is against all these crimes. It’s just not about women, it's about everyone, however they go on and rant that its men’s fault. At the end, it seems to me that feminists, generally, place more importance on hating men than on having equal rights.

To say it in short terms, I don’t want to join a certain feminist group because they seem prescriptive. I am a humanist and I am a pro women. I am a feminist but without the stereotypes that comes with it.