What's In A Name? That Which We Call A Feminist.

I'm all for gender equality among men and women in any region of the world. In the workplace, home life, politics, ect. I don't know what I would call myself. Many a times I've been called a feminist or even called myself one. But what does that word actually mean. It wasn't until I took a class called Post Modern Women Literature and Art till I really asked that question.

To different people it means different things, different types of people whose goal is gender equality. To some the word 'feminist' is negative, that a women that is a feminist hates men, and wants women to have power over men. When people feel that way many times I hear that term "feminazi." To others feminist just means someone striving to end the gender inequality, the pay differences, the laws that limit women, or just the views society places on the role of women.

As for me, I'm just a women that's trying to stay afloat in this world. And right now it's a scary world with everything that is going on and the future holds many secrets. But one thing I am sure of is that I don't think women should be pressured into any role. A women should have a choice of what they want their life to be. Women should get paid just as much as a man should if they have the same job and that society shouldn't pressure girls and women to be and act like someone they aren't. No women should have to play the 1950's housewife, stuck at home with the kids, relying completely on the husband for money.
Maybe women have certain skill sets that men do not, and vice-versa, but that doesn't make them any less of a human being. I'm also not saying that if a women chooses to be a housewife that's a bad thing. But I'm saying a women should have a choice and not feel pressured to get hitched and start having kids and then quitting whatever job or career they had because that's what society says is "right." I'm saying there should be a choice that one doesn't feel guilty for making. Because it's our life, and the decision should be ours and made with those we love, care about and is involved in that life.

If any of that makes me a feminist then so be it. But maybe I'm just a women that wants equality among all peoples, and perhaps there just isn't a perfect fitting label for that.

Anyway, that's me guys. I don't know how often this blog will be updated, I think I'm gonna go for major posts once a week and minor interests in between.