In the media, there has been a lot of focus on the woman and young girls. Why? Due to recent politics and events, there has been a mass discussion of the woman and equal rights. Despite what your beliefs are, who are we to say that a woman is less than a man? Or that a man can’t amount to the same skills as a woman? We are all under the same homosapien umbrella. Yes, there are certain things that only certain sexes can do, but who/what makes us want to separate the two?
Society is constantly placing two categories on two different sidelines. This categorizing goes way beyond sexual orientation but goes to include the color of our skin, where we live, what we believe and how we see the world. Society is always going to pin one against the other. In this case, we are seeing men and woman at a constant battle of the sexes.
In light of recent political events and movements, we are seeing a BIG outspoken voice. Woman are done working twice as hard to “amount” to the same skills as a man. Furthermore, once she gets to that point in power there are still those (mainly men) intimidated by the fact that there’s a woman in authority. There are so many double standards to the opposite sex it’s TIRING!
I feel that society is falling backward with all its past accomplishments. Woman have been fighting for their rights for more than 50 years, and that’s just in the US. There are still many women worldwide that don’t even come close to the success that woman in the US has accomplished. Why are we shaming woman? Why are we categorizing them as the “weaker” sex? Yes, this may sound like a feminist rant to you but is it really feminist if we are just asking for society to treat us (woman) in the same respect as they do a man? No. It’s an equal opportunity.
Speaking of equal opportunity, if this is true, as many contracts to work have so stated, then why is the woman still having to work twice as harder than a man in the same company to reach the same pay? Why are woman subjected to ridicule and crude jokes of “blowing” her way to the top? Just because she is female? A man in power get’s respect but a woman in power gets mocked.
Another subject to touch on-reproduction. Why are we trying to control women's bodies? What a woman decides to do with her body is her choice. No one has a right to justify that choice but her. Why aren’t men being pulled into this responsibility? It does take two to tango. It does take a SPERM and an EGG to reproduce. Why should the woman be thrown into the corner as to what she decides to do with HER body?
There have been many women throughout history who have broken through the barriers and shown the world that woman are capable too. There have also been a woman in our own lives that have broken the chain of command in our family dynamics. Why should it be 50/50? Why not 100/100?
Men and woman should be treated equally, regardless of the color of their skin, sexual identity, and their beliefs. We are all human. As a millennial, much of our generation is aiming towards a better tomorrow. Bringing more light onto worldly matters and country systematics that needs to be changed and continued to fight for. The march is not over, it has only begun.