This story of having to share with a man, burning a bra and a guy who doesn\’t open the car door on the first date is not for me! I\’m sexist!\”
Do you know anyone who thinks that way or has said something like that? Let\’s imagine this is a group of Outspoken Macho Women and raise your hand if you are or have been one of them.
Do not be shy. This is a room where judgments will not be allowed. I start then ????
I used to be one of them! The uninformed type who believed in a separatist and radical feminism that preaches hatred of men or in which women want to be equal to them. Controversial isn\’t it?!
How to want to be like someone you hate? Or have attitudes similar to those that hurt or hurt you?
It\’s interesting to look back and realize that what made me anti-feminism was actually the same reasons I was ALWAYS a feminist.
Being respected, well treated, having the right to be free and not judged by my clothes or positions is exactly what Feminism fights for.
When I was a little girl, I was pissed at being excluded from games or games because they were considered for boys. It distressed me when I was silenced for voicing my opinion among power figures like elders and teachers. I felt rejected for being skinny, while fashion magazines featured hot girls on their covers, setting a standard of beauty that the vast majority of boys craved.
If you\’ve ever felt something similar, any sense of contempt or mistreatment, you\’ve had your freedom curtailed in some way and this has led you to indignation YOU ARE A FEMINIST!
Calm down, you\’ll be fine. In fact, assuming who you are and recognizing the need to fight for the right to be so will give you extraordinary independence and strength to take a stand against life\’s obstacles.
As well as identifying the sexist concepts placed in your head throughout your entire life and which, unfortunately, guided a large part of your attitudes, behaviors, habits and thoughts.
The same ones who can now make feminism seem like a threat to you. So I can\’t get married? Do I have to let the hair grow? Stop wearing a bra? Quit the academy?
No, you don\’t have to do anything you don\’t want to and that\’s exactly the point. What do you really want?
Feminism still scares a lot, because it gives women back a power that the patriarchal and sexist society has been taking away from them: freedom.
Once you become aware of all this, your positioning will become a matter of choice and not veiled determinations of a world that limits us, standardizes us and says who we should be.
Forget nonsense that you are told about us being against marriage, against makeup, against physical exercises or anything else that truly pleases you.
We are against male manipulation, beauty standards imposed on women in a brutal and often deadly way to please men. We are against a society that stipulates heterosexual marriage as a model of family and happiness. We are against wage differences between men and women in the same positions. We are against birth control pills that destroy a woman\’s body when it is the man who has the greatest reproductive potential. We are against oppression, in favor of awareness of the limitation of our rights, the main one being that of choosing.
Do not deny yourself the freedom that is natural to you and was given to you at birth. Don\’t block your intuitive wisdom, the cream of being a woman to satisfy archaic and patriarchal standards. It won\’t make you truly happy.
We are not nor do we want to be equal to men. We are free beings and we really want to exercise that right.
Think about it, inform yourself!