{"id":32164,"date":"2019-11-09T12:30:16","date_gmt":"2019-11-09T12:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=32164"},"modified":"2019-11-09T12:30:16","modified_gmt":"2019-11-09T12:30:16","slug":"are-you-a-feminist-or-are-you-just-saying-you-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/are-you-a-feminist-or-are-you-just-saying-you-are\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you a feminist, or are you just saying you are?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Personally, true feminism isn\u2019t so much about complaining about the lack of opportunities in our own lives, but more so about being able to encourage other less privileged women to make the most out of the opportunities that come up in theirs.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve asked myself many times what the true definition of \u201cfeminism\u201d is. It\u2019s been shaped and twisted so much according to each person who speaks on this topic, giving their own interpretation of it, but the most common meaning tends to be women who believe men and women should have equal rights.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Following many sleepless nights dwelling on this question, I struggle to come to terms that this \u201cexplanation\u201d is enough to define what feminism really is.<\/span><\/p>\n

Before everything else, feminism is a movement. It\u2019s not just a word used by chance to describe every woman\u2019s devotional thinking in a privileged society, and the word \u201cfeminist\u201d has been used excessively, indicating that far too many people have missed out on understanding its\u2019 true meaning.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to USNews<\/span><\/a>, there are still women in countries like Indonesia, Iran and Saudi Arabia still living without basic human rights in the 21st century that so many of us in western countries take for granted is not normal\u2026and inhumanely brutal! And what\u2019s worse is that us women have the power to change this, if we focus our minds in this direction.<\/span><\/p>\n

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What I\u2019m genuinely worried about is that the term \u201cfeminist\u201d today, is nothing more than a self-proclaimed title imposed upon women who don\u2019t actually do anything to make real change, support the cause or promote gender emancipation. In order to make real change, everyone who calls themselves feminists must be active not only in words but actions. Otherwise, it\u2019s like calling yourself a cook, but only eating takeaway food at home. You get my point.<\/span><\/p>\n

Some facts are shocking. <\/span><\/p>\n