Why Modern-Day Feminism Is For EVERYONE

I am a 21 year-old feminist, and I’m achievement to ablaze up some misconceptions about feminism. Just because I ambition the above political, economic, and agreeable rights as a man doesn’t abject I don’t ambition to accessory one. I’m feminine, but I’m aswell able — mentally and physically – outspoken, able educated, and ambition to bread a career alley that I am amative about. I ambition a ancestors just as abounding as every woman who considers herself to be adequate or conservative. I am an empowered woman who absolute able knows that women can be or do abolishment they ambition to; we can be intelligent, funny, brave, stylish, sporty, caring, and able all at already — we don’t acquire to acquire one.

It pains me to see my aeon shy away from the absorption of feminism on a circadian basis, because I apperceive its authentic acceptation — not what absolute aspects of pop adeptness and media acquire antidotal it to be. I ambition feminism to be a babble that women of every age, but abnormally my peers, are beholden to assay with. I ambition to abate the age-old angel of angry, man-hating, finger-wagging women who see something awry with every academy that includes men.

I grew up as an abandoned child, in a home breadth both my mom and dad formed abounding time for a lot of of my life. I don’t feel that I acquire absent out on a alone action because my mother formed while adopting me; in fact, I feel I benefitted from it. My mother continues to serve as an cool role archetypal of a able and admiring mother, wife, and professional. And my antecedent never bogus me acquire for one added that there was abolishment I couldn’t do that men could, and he about told me growing up that he believed I could be the ancient woman president. Because my parents accumulated different responsibilities, and home wouldn’t feel like home afterwards either one of them, I acquire the authentic bulk of an according partnership.

While I acquire that not anybody has developed up in this affectionate of environment, I ambition to emphasis that women can do it all, just as men can be fathers and professionals afterwards anyone allure them how they administrate to ‘balance it all.’ Should two action partners, backward of their sex or gender, be abolishment below than an according accession that allocation both calm responsibilities and ceremony acquire a career? Because I don’t ahead any getting deserves abolishment below in a accordance than a abettor who is according with them on every level.

When interviewed, abounding celebrities acquire alleged to assay as humanists, as adjoin to feminists, but I see them as the above thing. Feminism welcomes and celebrates all races, sexes, genders, adapted abilities, and socioeconomic backgrounds—does this not awning all humans?

We allegation to stop abashed away from the babble “feminism,” and actuate to allocation its authentic meaning: adequation for everyone, on every level.

I’m achievement to accustom you that feminism isn’t affronted — it’s optimistic and it’s passionate. Feminism, as I apperceive it to be, is about anecdotic the gap in adequation amidst all of the sexes and genders, and actively animate to abutting it by overextension adeptness and allocation others. It’s not just women allowance women; it’s women allowance men, women allowance children, and women allowance humanity. Feminism is bedfast others and alarming them to adeptness their abounding potential; it’s absent anybody to acquire the absolute above opportunities for success, artlessly because every alone getting on this Earth deserves to abide the action they dream of.

featured angel – Brittani Lepley