The feminist approach.
The moment when someone attaches you to a philosophy or a movement, they assign all the baggage and all the rest of the philosophy that goes with it to you, and when you want to have a conversation they will assert that they already know everything important there is to know about you because of that association.
For me defining feminism was a very important thing to do before deciding whether to support it or not, you see feminism doesn’t have a fixed/agreed upon definition, it’s basically a range of movements and ideologies that share a common goal: to define, establish, and achieve equal political, economic, cultural, personal, and social rights for “women”. This includes seeking to establish equal opportunities for women in education and employment.
Many people assert a lot of things to this definition, many ideologies and many movements that has nothing to do with equality for both genders. Feminism for me is equality for both genders. Movements such as “stop violence against women” are sexiest and ignorant; it should be “stop violence”. Taking into consideration that 40% of domestic violence are male victims. And many social experiments have been conducted about this issue, where people will only interfere in a public fight if the male is abusing the women, and not interfere when the women is abusing the male.
This is only the introduction to my next blog (the feminist approach II). That will revolve around gender roles and the effect it has on many young boys and girls, and the complications it has.