Reflection On Feminism

This past semester I took a class called 'Introduction to Gender, Race, and Sexuality ', and although there were many topics that we covered, one that kept coming back up was the idea of feminism. I realized that so many people consider themselves feminists. I also realized that so many people are against feminism. I realized that they don 't hate feminism, they just don 't understand what it really means. This has do to with lack of education, lack of care, or just simply ignorance. Or the fact that some feminists are hard-core and like to shove their views in everyone 's faces. When you think about it, every group has some extremists. There are hard-core Republicans and hard-core Democrats, but that doesn 't mean that those people represent …show more content…
What does that picture say? She 's not a feminst because she believes in equality? She (and a lot of other people) is completely contradicting herself. Feminsts aren 't saying that women should have more privelage or that we should receive special rights. We 're just saying that everyone should have the same privelage and rights.
"I don 't need feminism because I am not a delusional, disgusting, hypocrtial man-hater! I respect men and they respect me! …show more content…
I can 't stress this enough. Feminism is beneficial to both women and men, believe it or not. Like I said before, feminism is the belief that all genders are equal. No gender is below another. If feminsts were man-haters, they would not be fighting for equality. Feminists do empower women, but they are empowering women to fight for EQUALITY.

"I don 't need feminism because I recognize that there are mens ' rights issues as well as womens '! And we need to stop ignoring them. I 'm anti-feminist, pro-equality." FEMINISTS ARE PRO-EQAULITY!!! Feminists also acknowledge the fact that men are objectified. They get shamed for their bodies and have gender roles imposed upon them as a child. Just like women do. Also, men are sexually abused. It 's considered 'shameful ' because men are 'supposed to be strong '. No one is supposed to 'be anything ' because of their gender. Anyone can do anything. Men can be victims and women can be predators, and vice versa. We are not ignoring these issues. In fact, we are trying to make them more evident
"I don 't need feminism seeing how I 'm an ambitious, hard working confident person living in 21st-century America. Why fight for rights I already