Women In Iron Jawed Angels

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie defines feminism as “a man or a woman who says, yes, there’s a problem with gender as it is today and we must fix it, we must do better. All of us, women and men, must do better.” Like Adichie, many feminists speak against gender stereotypes and fight the unequal treatment of women and minorities. Laci Green uses the phrase “Man Hater, Bra Burner, Baby Killer and Lesbian” in one of her videos, to describe few of the many stereotypes that revolve around women/men that consider themselves a feminist. The need for feminism is critical in this century. Women are twice as likely to suffer from depression and anxiety due to societal pressures, because equal pay for equal work is a basic right, because rape in America is …show more content…
Anthony, who found for women’s rights. In Iron Jawed Angels, which is a documentary about Alice Paul and the women of the 19th century women’s suffrage movement, women are tortured and fed against their will, to show that their physical weakness is an exceptional reason to why men are better than women and that they shouldn’t receive the same rights as a man. According to current research, the vast majority of people who suffer from domestic violence are women. The domestic violence women face today is parallel to the women in Iron Jawed Angels which may be because those ancient ideas haven’t changed. The belief that women are inferior to men is deeply ingrained in men in both centuries which can be seen by the fact that men are domestically abused astronomically less in comparison to …show more content…
From a young age, female children are told to shy away from a “man's job” such as a male dominated subject like the sciences. In the video, “Feminism is Cancer”, both Milo Yiannopoulos who is a media personality and more popularly associated with the alt-right movement and Christina Hoff Sommers who self identifies as a “factual” feminist, pose their opinion and tell the audience their anti-feminist stances. For instance, Sommers tweeted, “Want to close wage gap? Step one: Change your major from feminist dance therapy to electrical engineering.” Some may argue that she is encouraging women to get involved in a male dominated field but her whole notion is to just dismiss the great movement of feminism. Feminism stands to make women and men understand the inequality and to change direction and make the world a better place where women and men are equally represented including minorities of race, sexual orientation, and gender. In a time where women should make a stand and support other women, anti-feminists like Sommers use their power in effects to destroy the notion is that is set in this