The Benefits Of Feminism

Feminism has been around since the 1840s, which makes it decades older than anyone alive today. Therefore, it is expected that feminism would have achieved its goal of equality by now. Surely it is a movement that is done and left for the history books. Sadly, this is not the case. Instead, there is heated debate over whether or not feminism has accomplished all it set out to do. On the one hand, some people view feminism as a finished movement that should be left behind in the past as it has caused more harm than good. Alternatively, some people consider feminism’s work to be ongoing as men and women are still unequal in various aspects. Overall, feminism needs to continue its pursuit towards equality in present day society because the pressure …show more content…
In fact, Melissa Kite, writer for The Spectator 's Real life column, argues that many young women believe “that feminism is an ex-philosophy”, while middle age women fully believe “that female opportunity is pegged to fertility” and that destroying that toxic mindset should be the main focus of the revived feminist movement. If feminism had done what it is intended to do, then women of all ages would be experiencing the same rights and status as men. Instead, some women, mostly younger, are being treated properly- either due to their high beauty appeal or the fact that they live in a feminist bubble (a place where people actually understand and live by feminist ideals of equality)- while the rest are not, with an added emphasis on older women. Current feminism must be used to correct this imbalance so that all women can experience the rights they should have had a long time …show more content…
To them, being a feminist means that a person is weak and a man-hater. Indeed, Emma Teitel, award-winning columnist, describes feminism as “a declaration of weakness, rather than strength” and that “feminism alienates people with dissenting opinions, and confuses everyone else.” That is, the definition of feminist today has become convoluted as people come to associate feminists with either victims or misandrists as they represent the bookends of the movement’s spectrum. As Emma Teitel says, “[N]obody ‘against feminism’ actually knows what feminism is.” The real definition of feminist is simple: a person who believes that men and women should be equal economically and socially. They do not view women as fragile dolls that need to be taken care of. They do not believe that all men need to die. They just believe that women should be on the same playing field as men. If the people who are supposedly against feminism would just take a moment to read up about what the movement actually is, instead of focusing on the extremes of the movement, they would be singing a different