Femenism : next step of feminism
Mar 6, 2023
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Feminism is against the patriarchy. Feminism is the thought that even if we, men and women, are different but those differences can't belittle any of the genders. While patriarchy use these differences to supress. Now a days, we are realising that it not only suppressed women but men also. To make a system of society on the name of progress, it used men and women as tool. It's like oppressor oppressed himself also in the process of oppression, unknowingly. Now after the ages, the oppressor is the system of patriarchy and oppressed are men and women.
While men and women are tool for patriarchy, fitting in some definitions, feminism favors to acceptence of freedom from all definitions, free from fitting in boxes and avoids generalisation to accept own authenticity and uniqueness while respecting others freedom and boundaries. Hence, in feminism, society is tool for us, beings.
In this process, dynamics of society is changing, it's not just because of feminism, it's also because most of us are not in war zone or in hunting ground. As the dynamics of society is changing, our gender dynamics and roles are also changing. It's not because we are forcing ourselves to change or we are denying our nature but it's that the potential was always there which could not be expressed in unstable society and in survival mode.
Now after years of feminism, we can see the changes. A lot of women walked towards the expression of own authenticity and freedom from definitions. But still, we are revolving in a loop. It's still incomplete if men don't accept their own wholeness, their emotional and rational side both. Rejection of emotional approach and emotional connection can be seen as an effect on our inter gender connection or relationship and marriages which somehow lead us, either to a guilt loop or to a decision of living single and unmarried and detached. These all situations affect men also.
In recent years, we can see an against war towards feminism on the name of men. But we are not against each other, we are gainst that unequal system, we are against that narrative of suppression.
Even if we see through the concept of, "musculinity and feminity", we can see that feminity is suppressed in both women and men. Feminity can't be suppressed completely in women because of their biological differences, so they suppressed women as person. Along with it, they suppressed the feminity inside men also, as their emotional side is diminshed as saying a charactistics of women. So that's how women and feminity inside men both are suppressed. Now is need to speak for both.
I would have believed the definition of men according to patriarchy until i read the poetry written by male writer, until i found about male saint in bhakti movement (in India, tells the path of love to God ), untill i saw the men in love.
As patriarchy is hurting men also, then feminism should include men also and it should move towards "femenism". To speak up towards the emotional well being and mental health of men.
It explains the true definition of feminism, where the core values are equality, respect, freedom, honesty, indepence, love, and acceptance as being, irrespective of gender. On the same time, it also explains that it doesn't support the rudeness, disrespect, suppression, infidelity, hate no matter whichever gender.
We should include men and women both for the issues of both. And work on together for better world and society with the name of "femenism".
Let's know each other, let's listen each other, let's speak for each other, let's respect each other and let's make a better society for each other.
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