About the civil rights movement.
I lied, I’m not going to write about the civil rights movement. I’m going to write about feminism.
The RAE says that feminism is: “Principle of EQUAL RIGHTS for women and men.”
And why did I mention the civil rights movement? Let’s see this from the wiki:
“The Civil Rights Movement in the United States was a long, mainly nonviolent struggle to extend full access to civil rights and equality under the law to groups that did not have them, especially black citizens.”
That is, it was precisely a movement of a minority to seek EQUITY, EQUAL RIGHTS. Which also has a name that can be distorted. Google even specifies it more defining it as the civil rights movement of African Americans.
With such a specific name, it could be accused of many of the things that are “accused” of feminism. However, it is not now said that African Americans believed they were better than whites. It is not said that civil rights did not exist. It is not said that giving civil rights to blacks took away the rights of whites. It was a movement for equality even though it sought mainly to give the rights that were missing to blacks.
But the word feminism is attacked and then I don’t understand why? Like the civil rights movement, it is a movement that seeks EQUALITY of rights. That in all movements there are extremists, yes. That extremists are very dangerous and seriously yes. That there are people who call themselves feminists and are actually extremists, yes too. That we must combat those ideas, yes, yes, and yes. The ideas that promote that any human group is superior to another and that such a group deserves more rights and deserves to manage the rights of other groups and any form of oppression or discrimination, believe me, I am the first to protest.
But understanding such a difference, I ask you not to speak ill of feminists who by definition seek equality and not tip the balance of oppression.
What rights am I looking for? What am I a feminist for? … Well, yes, I can vote, thanks to the feminists who fought for that, well, I can technically walk down the street alone (not without suffering harassment, but hey), and I can also have private property and decide when to marry or not and I have a job that I can exercise freely (although I have had to endure hearing that it was “given” to me because I am a woman and not because I kicked butts in the majority of 7 interviews among other degrading things that I have suffered at work).
But the reality is that this is not the case all over the world, there are still countries where there is no equality of rights and opportunities and it is for these women that feminists are still needed and I declare myself one of them. And in my case, I have said I will be a feminist until the average age at which a man can only buy a house is the same average age for single women like me. That is, I will be a feminist until I die!