Feminism Is Not Whatever You Want It To Be By Emma Teitel

Feminism: the term that has been talked about more and more frequently today than it has ever been in the past. Feminism can be described as the belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities. But are feminists today really fighting for equal rights with men or are they fighting for some sort of female dominance? Anne Wollenberg, a writer for the Guardian newspaper agrees as she states that “if a man … says he hates women, he 's being sexist. But some women have no qualms about pigeonholing all men into one category of violent, abhorrent brutes and calling it feminism. And that 's when feminism becomes …another form of sexism” (Wollenberg 1). Feminists have been around for decades trying to fight for male and female

Emma Teitel, author of “Feminism is Not Whatever You Want it to Be”, implies that feminists have lost focus. Teitel says that feminists focus so much on their shortcomings and how disadvantaged they are instead of taking any kind of action to fix these problems (1). There are so many issues revolving around this dilemma of gender inequality and feminists are too consumed with getting people to feel bad for them and pity them that no actions are taken to resolve the underlying problems. Females want to have some sort of power, as that is to be expected. It is right that women should be able to have equal opportunities with men such as getting paid the same amount for the same job and getting offered the same job positions as men hold. But these types of gender inequalities in today’s society have still not been solved yet. The majority of women still want to get paid the same amount as men do, and be able to qualify for higher positions that men normally hold. Feminists are the voice for these women wanting equality and they are using their voice for the wrong reasons. Feminists are using their voice and their power to shame and discriminate against men and not helping women to make it any further towards equality. Feminists have become too consumed with proving that men are evil and less consumed with using their voice to actually fight for equality which is

They want to be rescued first before men are rescued in a burning building. Females aren’t called “creepy” when they approach a man and ask them out, as men usually are. Females are never told to “man up” or to “be a man”. Female privilege is being able to being able to decide whether or not you want to have a child and being able to decide whether or not the father of that child has to pay child support for the nest eighteen years, even if they did not want the child in the first place. Female privilege is being able to pull up your skirt of cry to get out of getting a ticket if you get pulled over. Female privilege is having the choice to marry rich and become a stay-at-home mother and not look like a dead-beat parent. When women call the police about a domestic violence issue, more often than not, their side is taken even if it was their fault. Women do not have to work heavy machinery in factory jobs while men still have to. Female privilege is being able to be caring and empathetic and helpful and not being surprised when they do. Women have a plethora of privileges compared the amount of privileges men have and yet strong-headed feminists still see themselves as not having enough rights. This is yet another example of the sexism that feminists impose on men. The issue is that these feminists are arrogantly seeing men as being sexist towards them while in turn they are being even more sexist towards