Three months ago, I read a book by a wonderful writer called Bell Hooks, she is an afro american woman who is a feminist too; this book is amazing it helped me to understand what feminism is, indeed it helped me to clarify my doubts about this movement. In the beginning, I used to think that feminists were a bunch of lesbian who hated men.... I was completely wrong. Feminism it's not an aberration against humanity and it's not the same as machismo, this movement fights for gender equity, fights against sexism which is the main factor of violence against women, even sexism impairs men. In my culture it's not good to see men cry, because most of the people say that "Men are stronger than women and men don't have cry" And I ask myself Why a man has to be strong and a woman weak? Even in the resistance you can bread sexism, because they say that women's nature is to be delicate...
There are many things why feminism is good for society that I won't have one post enough to write about; but there will be more interesting posts like this one.
As a conclusion, you may wonder why the title, well, one of the reasons why feminism is misunderstood is because sisterhood is not united, women see other women as their enemies and this situation impair the fight for women rights. Have you ever wondered why there are femicides? One of the main reasons is because the sisterhood is not powerfull, women are divided and it's time to change this situation.
Bianka
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