You should be a feminist
If I were to ask someone if they are a feminist nine out of ten people would say no. What’s so bad about being a feminist? According to experts feminism is the belief in social, political, and economic equality of women with men. Unless you force your wife to wear a hijab you probably have no objections to that idealogy. Most americans would agree that women should be able to vote and work along side men, it’s the whole everyone is equal and deserves an equal opportunity thing.
Sociologists would like a world where everyone would proudly admit to being a feminist. So where did the word feminist become so negative? The answer might be right around the corner in your living room inside your television. The main stream media has a lot of social control of what we think. During the 1960’s when the feminist movement was getting media coverage it was being portrayed negatively. The news would only show the girls who ripped their bras off, the girls who were man haters, the extremists. Some might say that the media only covers what gets the most rating and certainly bra-less bitches yelling are better than college graduate women speaking for equality. The reality is white male executives had an incentive to portray the feminist movement negatively. Why would they want women out of the kitchen disagreeing with a man’s authority tryign to get an education and becomming independent of men.
Ultimately the feminist movement was fundamentally successful despite the corporate elite but the negative connotation still exists. Their social control is so strong that to this day people don’t want to describe themselves as a feminist. Don’t let the media tell you how to think you should be proud to say “I’m a feminist!”