As I was trying to figure out what I should do for my first blog post, I turned to everyone's favorite social media site, Facebook. What I found was a Facebook group called, "Equality for Women". Among this site, there are many articles and pictures of various ways that women are not being treated equal in our everyday society, as well as articles about how we are slowly but surely on the path to overcome feminism.
When I saw this picture, it really caught my attention. Forever feminism has been seen as something that is only for women, something that men do not or can not understand, but this is far from the truth. What this picture depicts is that feminism effects us all, male or female. This man is saying that he should not be looked at as better than the rest because he is one of the very few men that understands what feminism is and believes that something must be done. He is saying that everyone has rights and everyone should be granted those rights and just because right now our society favors men that they should stand up and fight for women's rights too and that women should not have to face it alone.
Our text talks about the common misconceptions of feminism and how people perceive it as something that only women should be involved with and that it's women wanting to over power men rather than just be equal. A quote Pat Robinson said in our text states that feminism, "encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, and practice witchcraft." ((Kirk & Okazawa-Rey, p.4)
In conclusion, I believe if more people were educated on what exactly feminism is and how it's just an idea of equality, more people, men specifically, would be willing to get on board and fight for this cause.
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