Roles Of Feminism In America

When children are young they are told that America is the greatest country to live in. There could never be a country greater than America because we offer freedom, a luxury most countries do not have. As people grow up they begin to realize America is not as great as they were told. Everyone was taught that America was the safest country in the world, nothing can ever happen to them. In reality, America is not even one of the top twenty-five safest countries (“Safest Countries,” 2015). People have to protect themselves from so many things. Social standards, racial comments, body-shamming, drinking and driving, the expectation that everyone is always going to be nice, and so much more. America is the land of the free, but it is not the land …show more content…
Feminism is commonly misconstrued as women hating men and thinking they deserve more than men. Emma Watson once said “Fighting for women’s rights has too often become synonymous with man-hating. This has to stop…” (McDonnell, n.d.). Feminism is about equality for men and women, not women having more power than men. A little unknown fact is that a woman earns seventy-eight cents for every dollar a man makes. The top ten paying jobs for women still make less than a man. In 2009 the World Economics Forum on Global Gender Gap ranked one hundred and thirty-four countries on gender equality and America ranked thirty first. One huge issue with women in todays society is that they’re always “asking for it”, by the way they dress, talk, how much makeup they wear, if they flirt with a guy, etc. If a women says no, that means no. That does not mean they want it to keep happening or they’re playing hard to get. Just because a women dresses provocatively does not mean they’re asking for it. Just because a woman is flirting with a man does not mean she wants to go back to his place (Lowen, 2014). Kurt Cobain said “Rape is one of the most terrible crimes on earth and it happens every few minutes. The problem with groups who deal with rape is that they try to educate women about how to defend themselves. What really needs to be done is teaching men not to rape. Go to the source and start there” (Pugachevsky, 2014). School systems are teaching girls to cover themselves up in order to help men focus on learning. Girls have to cover up their shoulders, wear fingertip length pants, etc. The school system should not be teaching women to cover themselves up for men, it should be teaching men not to stare at women like their raw meat. One of the biggest issue women have is double standards. Double standards is when a man can do something and it is okay but if a woman does it then it is completely absurd. If a man sleeps around with multiple