This is a great video that brings insight to the world that a lot of people are sheltered by. I'm not going to start spewing out facts about how we live in a men controlled society, even though we do, just so I can get the real point of this post across. FEMINISM IS NOT BAD. I really hate how feminism has been given a bad name over the years simply because of radicalism. Call it what you would like, but feminism simply is the belief that men and women are EQUAL. Not that women are better than men, not that women should control society, not that women are amazing and men suck and we should be the rightful leaders of earth. It's none of those things, it's simply equality.
This is a great video because it takes everyday phrases and spins them on their head. I hope it makes you think twice before you say something. For example, using "girly" as in insult, or saying to be strong you need to "man up". I find it insulting that not only are you bringing someone else down by insinuating that being a girl is a bad thing, but also that in order to be strong you need to be a man. It's just little things like this that have opened my eyes to the world of sexism, things that are ground into your brain until they loose their meaning. I have to admit I once used gender as an insult, but slowly leaned away from it. In my eyes, as long as you realize you're doing something wrong and fix it, you're okay. There's a difference between ignorant/ uneducated and being purposefully harmful.
Yea more people should pay more attention to this and focus on male and females being on an equal ground instead of finding pointless reasons to put down feminist views and classifying everything based off of gender/ so-called gender roles
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