"Feminism is a range of political movements, ideologies, and social movements that share a common goal: to define, establish, and achieve equal political, economic, personal, and social rights for women. This includes seeking to establish equal opportunities for women in education and employment."
Some people need to roat learn this definition. Feminism is not a crime, it's a belief that we need to overcome today's realities where women are treated as inferior to men. It isn't an issue of the rural alone, in the urban areas to the dilemma exits, consider merely the wage differential. Anyone can choose to be a feminist, genders don't define your beliefs. Feminism is a movement against male chauvinism, not against the entire male gender or every single man. Yes men and women differ in certain ways and yes not all women may be able to equally compete with men in each of life's races, but that doesn't mean women are inferior. Incapability and inferiority are two things poles apart. Inferiority is what someone faces due to the norms of the society. Incapability is something that only sets us apart from someone else, doesn't declare us as below them. Incapability can be tried to overcome but even a feminist agrees it has certain boundaries too. Women bear a lot a man can not, same way men do a lot every woman may not be able to do. Feminism agrees to it and only asks for the opportunity to be given a chance to try to overcome those incapabilities.
No man is born as a perfect individual, he too progresses, but easily because he has no barriers set for him. Feminism demands the same for women, to be given that right to excel without any halts or limitations. Feminism only speaks for the biases set by our society declaring women inferior to men, which basically violates the human rights too.
Feminism does not define sexuality or hatred, feminism defines a movement for some of women's rights as a human being. Feminism doesn't define a woman's preference as to how she acts or dresses. That is a women's individual choice, not a part of the ideology of feminism. Feminism demands for the right for women to make their decisions, feminism doesn't support every wrong decision she takes.
Women have rights no matter what religion they follow, and feminism speaks for their rights. Yes religious preferences may effect as to the span of the issues that come under feminism for every women individually, but still no one can deny her rights as a whole.
I'm a feminist, yes I demand equal rights for women. But I respect certain limitations too. I am a feminist like many others around the globe, but that doesn't define everything another feminist believes to be a woman's right is exactly what I believe in too. I'm a feminist who doesn't support body shaming, but I'm feminist who doesn't support indecency either. I'm a feminist who doesn't believe a woman should have to face domestic violence and that she shouldn't be the one forced to give up. But then I do believe a woman's sacrifices for her family aren't wrong only if she wills to do so, and not when they're enforced on her. I am a feminist, a proud feminist. Don't blame my belief for someone else's actions. My belief speaks of equality alone, my belief doesn't include the limits of equality. Each society sets it's own. Don't blame feminism for something done that is morally wrong. I am a feminist who demands a women's will to be involved in a relationship, but my feminism doesn't define the right to have polygamous relationships. I am a feminist who believes a women's consent is vital for any sexual act but my feminism doesn't define I support pre-marital or extra-marital involvements. I am a feminist who demands the right for a woman to not be harassed, but then I do believe in the same for men too. Feminism is a branch of the struggle for acquiring basic human rights for all, just as the right to be treated equally without religious or racial discrimination. Don't blame my belief for an individuals actions. Feminism asks for equality, it doesn't define support for each person's individual actions.
Definition courtesy Wikipedia.
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