WHY CALL IT FEMINISM?
(In response to Sophia Charchuck’s March 7 article, "Students discuss modern feminism.")
If, as participants of the panel state, feminism is not only about women but the involvement of both sexes for the pursuit and enactment of equal liberties, then why call it feminism?
The participants in this panel provide few details as to what aspects were focused on during discussion regarding modern feminism and ideas about how it should be defined. It is stated in the article, however, that one aim is to “educate and empower … about human and women rights.”
Why must the desire for equality and liberty categorize? Why can’t there exist one category into which all citizens fall: human rights?
The modern United States demonstrates absolute liberty and equality in relation to both sexes. Women are open to the same potential as men, to achieve in education, ambition, and any legal pursuit of will.
Modern feminism’s rise induces only problems, because its followers try to establish respect where it already stands and equality where it is already understood, practiced and increasingly mangled, because of their interference to define a new and radical role of women.
Instead of facilitating communication and recognition, the increasing rise of modern feminism stifles various outlets and puts stress on social environments such as the office, where male employees must be fastidiously cautious in their actions and speech so as to not offend the female employees on a personal level.
Modern feminism has given rise to the opinion that a woman’s state must be heeded and protected, but contemporary men are not given any protection by outlets against attacks from women, so this presents a situation of securing an unneeded protectiveness toward women so that a modern man’s attitude toward woman is stilted.
This imbalance in communication presents the inequality between men and women when modern feminism intervenes.
Amy Matro
Undergraduate
