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A simple appeal to the society that has divided men and women in the name of feminism—


“The advocacy of women's rights on the ground of the equality of the sexes”— this right here is the definition of feminism as defined by our very reliable search engine, Google. A lot of people have different ideas about feminism and I’m not here to support them or advocate against them. I’m only here to express my honest opinion and maybe, try to preach our men and women to love each other again. 


I want you all to first assess the true meaning of equality before you start defining politically strong terms like feminism. Equality means, the state of being equal in terms of status, rights and opportunities. And, now that you know what equality means, can you really say that men and women are treated equally with respect to status, rights and opportunities? NO. 


And now, let’s look into the definition of feminism as I mentioned above—The advocacy of women’s rights on the GROUND OF THE EQUALITY OF THE SEXES. My first and only point is, why do women NEED to ADVOCATE for something as basic as their rights? The concept of feminism exists BECAUSE women have always been deprived of their rights. And feminists? They only and only preach their propaganda on grounds of equality and we need to get that as it is. Women have never exerted their supremacy over men in the name of feminism. They have only and always demanded their right to the freedom that men get to enjoy every single day of their lives without having to struggle for it. And for the record, we’re NOT angry because men get everything they’re entitled to, we’re ONLY angry because we don’t get even what we’re entitled to. 


I don’t understand why there is such a huge social difference between men and women. What is so offensive about women demanding THEIR own rights? I know a lot of men who are feminists too and that’s only because they truly understand that feminism is about equality and not about superiority of women over men. Women only want to be given the same amount of respect that men receive in a society with everything they normally do.


In simple words, we don’t want to be respected only because we’re women, we want to be respected because we deserve it just like men do. We don’t want to be targeted for being females. We don’t want people to come at us for things that are considered normal to do. You wouldn’t question men if they stayed out late at night, then why question women? You wouldn’t question men if they voiced their opinion against something, then why question women? And once again, I repeat, we’re NOT angry because men are not judged for what they do, we’re only angry because we are judged for everything that we do.


Don’t you think it’s so sad, that women needed to have a separate word to demand equality while men just got it all by birth? Don’t you think it’s wrong for women to have to FIGHT for the right to live their own life on their own terms? Have men ever fought for something as basic as this? Women have had to fight for their right to even educate themselves, but have men ever been asked to stop studying because they’re males? We want our men to understand our struggle and not call us out for it. Again, we’re not against men, we’re against people who think we deserve lesser than men. We’re against all those women and men who think feminism is just a catalyst to throw hate on men. 


Feminism is, in fact, a simple appeal to the society to treat us the way you treat your men. 


People tend to misinterpret feminism for misandry and that’s really not what we want. Just like all you men love women, we love you too. We don’t want war with you, we only want peace. We need you to understand that feminism hasn’t created the gap between us men and women, the society has. We need to learn to coexist in the same society without lashing out at each other on the first opportunity we get. We need each other to survive and we both know that pretty damn well. We need to preach what is right and defy what is wrong. We need to demolish the culture of hate on baseless grounds. Period. 



- Saakshi Agarwal

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