What does Feminism Mean Anyway?

I know I have been using the word feminist like crazy but I thought maybe it was time I write about what I feel being a feminist means. Feminists are anyone who think that both sexes should have the same opportunities and the same choices despite their biological differences. Their humanists who want to break gender roles! Humanists is probably a better word because feminists not only worry about what gender roles do to women but what they do to men as well. But that's a topic for another day.

What is most shocking to me when I go back into the limited documented history of women is how women always seperated amongst themselves, choosing class, religion and race over their own fellow women. The only way I see rights and equality coming together for our sex is if we come together.

Let me clear this up now; its not that I hate men or blame all of them for the acts of others. Of course not! That would be sexist and narrow minded of me and only put me on the same platform as those of our species who already are sexist and by all means sexism is what I think should be erased from the minds of future generations. Participating in it will benefit NO ONE!

What has recently become the problem is not how men exploit women but lately how women are exploiting themselves and each other. Wake up women! Why must we worry everyday about how attractive or sexy we are in comparison to hollywood standards? We have choices now and women are still worried about their weight and thier make-up! This has always been the problem, women have been in competiiton with one another and for what? For the desire of a man? Is being desired really that important to a woman's existence or has man helped make it so?

What is the purpose of this writing? It is to wake some people up; we need to fight together to rid the world of all the acts of brutality and oppression that exist- equality for the sexes! It is only less than one hundred years ago that women have won the right to vote in this country and less than that in other countries- there is still much work to do.

Why should I have a choice what to wear each day when my a woman in the middle east must cover her body from head to toe because she has breasts and a vagina? Why is having a vagina such a disaster?! Personally I have always wanted the freedom of choices that i have watched men in my family have. Fathers your daughters can do more than be wives, mothers, and objects of sex! Your daughters want to do more! and why shouldn't you let them??!

I dont mean that men and women should take no pride in their own personal hygiene but once we go though extreme measures such as cosmetic surgery or be in the constant quest to be beautiful or what hollywood labels as perfect female form? We are all different and will NEVER look the same! So stop destroying your body and take care of it!

I write because I do not want my daughter to feel limited and hindered because she's a "girl."