This question's been in my mind for quite a while. Ok so for me feminism means to speak when you see a woman get oppressed not just saying this for the sake of it. As far as I remember I have always been quite vocal when it comes to it, even as a kid I would get mad seeing women get shut off or get beaten and my thoughts were clear about it.
But growing up I have realised I have gotten judgemental. When I see women wearing absurd clothes or talking unnecessarily against men or even when I read about divorce news(been seeing quite a few lately). At times like these, my stand wavers, and that opposes feminism in general or maybe not (you can't clearly define it).
But then today when I was trying to convince my parents about the colleges abroad they said we'd have sent you without much tension if you were a boy and that hurt cause I can't be a boy and that's a stupid excuse for me. What can a boy do that I can't?
I have always taken them in confidence and built my trust. Never did anything throughout to break it. If they had given me some better reason then I would have been convinced but this gender thing is something that offends me a lot.
Being a girl is hard at times you can't even do normal stuff like taking a walk alone at night cause there's a threat to your life. You might get harassed or even worse. Even when I want to walk on my terrace alone I have to convince them and why's that? Just because some random men from my apartment can have wrong intentions, it won't be safe. I can't even convince them cause I know they're right and some men can't be trusted. So you gotta protect yourself.
Although I don't wanna comment on it yes girls have the quality to adjust to certain things that will be called adjusting with misogyny but being able to go out is a basic right.
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