Title: Why We Still Need Feminism | HuffPost
Headings: Why We Still Need Feminism
Why We Still Need Feminism
Why We Still Need Feminism
It is not a gender issue — it is a humanity issue.
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Content: Why We Still Need Feminism | HuffPost
Casey Cavanagh, Contributor
Writer
Why We Still Need Feminism
09/18/2014 04:32 pm ET Updated Dec 06, 2017
Feminists are not angry lesbians who hate men. Feminists do not believe women are better than men, or that women deserve special privileges. They do not believe women are victims. In order to be considered a feminist, you only need to be on board with one idea: All humans, male and female, should have equal political, economic and social rights. Although more and more people are beginning to understand the true definition of feminism and openly identifying with it, there has always been a negative stigma attached to it. Part of this problem is the way our media sensationalizes things, trying to pass the most radical and extreme versions as the standard which, in this case, depicts a feminist as a man-hater who hates lipstick, crinkles her nose at stay-at-home moms, and unapologetically supports abortions on demand. It’s these false assumptions that cause anti-feminist campaigns, such as the recent “ Women Against Feminism ,” which consists of people posting photos of themselves with statements such as: “ I don’t need feminism because I don’t choose to ignore the fact that men have issues too” and “I don’t need feminism because I already have equal rights.” Reading through the majority of these posts quickly brings forth a glaringly obvious problem: