Feminism. This word is often thought of as a dirty word. That being a feminist means you think women are better than men. Despite popular beliefs, the dictionary definition of ‘feminist’ is a person who believes in social, political and economical equality of the sexes.
So, story time. When I was 16, I was asked by my distant relatives about when I would be getting married. That took me off guard, because I was 16, and I had my dreams of changing the world and having a stable life before even thinking of getting married. Why were people asking a 16-year-old teenage girl that? Let’s have women who don’t want to get married or have kids. Let’s have men who are house husbands. Let’s break the gender roles and let people do what they want to do, …show more content…
Where people are being raped and the ones who are blamed for the incident, are the victims, instead of the rapist. “Why did you wear clothes like that?” “Why did you decide to get drunk?” When the question we should ask is, “Why did you rape the person?” A few weeks ago, a 13-year old teenage boy was taken advantage of by his female teacher and people’s responses were to praise him for being able to have intercourse with his attractive teacher, instead of condemning the teacher for taking advantage of him. Last week, in Kelantan, they have set a law that women who have premarital children will be penalized. However, only women are being punished. Not the men who are involved in contributing the other half of the equation to make babies. Now this, is why feminism is important.
Other than that, the issue of child brides is more common than everyone thinks. According to United Nations in 2015, there were as many as 15,000 Malaysians who were married off before the age of 19. Child marriages are considered as a violation of human rights, as the children have no say in the matter, taking away their rights to choose. How horrifying is that? Being a 12-year old child, forced to marry a stranger and not have any freedom, unlike other privileged children in the world like us. Now this is why feminism is
So, story time. When I was 16, I was asked by my distant relatives about when I would be getting married. That took me off guard, because I was 16, and I had my dreams of changing the world and having a stable life before even thinking of getting married. Why were people asking a 16-year-old teenage girl that? Let’s have women who don’t want to get married or have kids. Let’s have men who are house husbands. Let’s break the gender roles and let people do what they want to do, …show more content…
Where people are being raped and the ones who are blamed for the incident, are the victims, instead of the rapist. “Why did you wear clothes like that?” “Why did you decide to get drunk?” When the question we should ask is, “Why did you rape the person?” A few weeks ago, a 13-year old teenage boy was taken advantage of by his female teacher and people’s responses were to praise him for being able to have intercourse with his attractive teacher, instead of condemning the teacher for taking advantage of him. Last week, in Kelantan, they have set a law that women who have premarital children will be penalized. However, only women are being punished. Not the men who are involved in contributing the other half of the equation to make babies. Now this, is why feminism is important.
Other than that, the issue of child brides is more common than everyone thinks. According to United Nations in 2015, there were as many as 15,000 Malaysians who were married off before the age of 19. Child marriages are considered as a violation of human rights, as the children have no say in the matter, taking away their rights to choose. How horrifying is that? Being a 12-year old child, forced to marry a stranger and not have any freedom, unlike other privileged children in the world like us. Now this is why feminism is