We'll Make Our Own Equality With Blackjack and....er, Feminists

So here's an interesting topic. Feminism vs Equality. Now I know what you're all thinking: "HERP A DERP FEMANITZ WANT SPECIAL PRIVALIJIZ". And I just want to say, no. I'm not here to beat y'all over the head with any fear mongering and propaganda. I'm here to talk about how feminism became antonymous with equality, or at least has evolved past its typical meaning. Buckle up, this may be a bumpy ride.

The philosophy that feminism has taken up nowadays is establishing and protecting women's rights and reducing male dominance. The reason for the change is because of a crazy revelation we'd come to by the turn of the modern era: why should we be equal to men when they're the ones still in power? Confusing isn't it? That's where I come in.

When you're talking equality, you realise that everything we'd been working toward is to do what men did. Think about it, equal pay to men, equal job opportunities to men, it's all gaining rights by men's standards, and as a result men have been dictating how we as feminists and women ought to be if we want to cut in on their action. Feminists never wanted to be men in order to gain access to men's rights, we want to be accepted for who we are as women and not to be held back for our gender. How was that hard to comprehend? I guess it's easy to represent something badly when you're in complete control and don't like something. 

Point being, women are not men, and it's not anti-feminist to admit that. But that doesn't mean we're useless or incompetent. With men constantly changing the playing field it's getting harder and harder for us to gain the respect we yearn for. I deem this unacceptable and many other feminists agree with me on that. So instead of playing by their rules, we're making some of our own. 

We're not gonna stand here and get fucked over day by day because men want to act like children by making some rubbish objective that's impossible to complete at the last minute when they see that they might have met their match. We're creating our own standards on how to gain rights. It's one thing to have rights, it's totally another to have those rights enforced, and that's another problem. There's this falsehood going around that women have more rights. It's only true on an abstract scale. I do plan on elaborating more on this in another blog post, possibly the next one. But I think I'll leave that on a cliffhanger. Aren't I just the worst? ;)

Feminists have taken things into their own hands because it's the only effective method we have left. Then we have the brilliance of "neutrality". Neutrality is this bogus method that employs calling people as humans rather than the group they belong to. You see people like The Amazing Atheist and Armoured Skeptic doing this shit a lot. The main problem I have with the idea of neutrality is the fact that it allows the privileged party to continue being themselves. They've really got nothing to lose. By letting the privileged party define equality how they see it, they pretty much can continue to get away with their discrimination and cry reverse racism/sexism when it happens to them. 

We shouldn't have to acquire our right to freedom by kissing arse. It's time we as feminists, blacktivists, gay rights activists, anyone who demands the rights they deserve stop appeasing to what the aggressors want. You don't gain freedom by bending to your master's will, we will break free and take what we're worth. United we stand.