Both men and women should feel free to be sensitive. Both men and women should feel free to be strong. ~ Emma Watson
It is intriguing, isn't it? How, once it is bought to your knowledge and awareness of the words like patriarchy or racism, it's all you can notice. How it's woven it's way to your everyday life, to your daily routine. They follow you to your everyday conversations, whether it be your mom asking you and your sister to help you out with kitchen work or simply when you're watching cartoons.
"Why just us? Why can't our brother help us?", you ask.
I’ve often noticed myself board the train of thoughts when it comes to this particular topic, feminism. Our ancestors fought for years and decades to acquire rights for us and pave a path for gender equality. And it is in my utmost pleasure to say that their tough grind didn’t go in vain. But I’m afraid this fight isn’t over. It might go about a hundred years or more for women to gain a status as equal as men because if rights were enough, girls wouldn’t carry pepper sprays and pocket knives with them for safety every time they leave the house. Gender discrimination will dwindle when catcalling, sexual harassment, rape culture, unequal pay, shaming language will all burn to the ground. So, let us all please establish the idea of feminism. No, feminism isn’t standing up for women whether they’re right or wrong, it is standing up for equality and fighting against patriarchy. So either you’re a feminist or you’re a sexist.
It is truly sick How patriarchy has sunk in the brains of so many people. It spreads like a wildfire, like flames taking over at the evergreen forests.
Now, Visualize a world where women are paid just as men for the same job, Where vulnerability, for both men and women, isn’t taken as a sign of weakness, Where women aren’t stopped from going out of the house because of safety issues. Let’s create a world where feminism isn’t veiled as a clichéd label assigned to people begging for women's rights, where feminism is seen for what it is, a duty of each human, which is to build a society, where people regardless of what gender they are, are equal.
Written by Ananya A.
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