Women Assemble:Saving the World

Note: This is part 2 of Women Assemble series. Check out the first part here Women Assemble:The Easy Question

Let me drop the "f" word so we can get it over with. Feminism. It seems that this word is so misinterpreted in 2014, and if you think that’s how many years we have been undermining women or lived on this planet, I have some news for you. It should be written as 200,000 years or if you go by the religious calendar about 6,000 years. What does this have to do with anything? Well considering women have been let to believe they are inferior for let’s say 199,940 or 5,440 of those years (considering there is about 60 years women fight for equal rights), it can be said that our DNA/Biology got used to us being assholes to them. Fear not though, for evolution is taking place.

Following recent events on women’s rights and feminism (watch Emma Watson’s speech here if you haven’t already) I can’t stop thinking that everyone seems to be focusing on how men should take action or how women are deprived of certain rights, or how the speakers do not represent what the fight for equal rights stands for. Which are all correct to an extent, but I think they do not answer some essential questions. The fight for gender equality is going on for a few decades now, things are getting better slowly though and I’m guessing some people are also thinking that there is nothing new to be told, or they are tired of all of this, but unfortunately these statements are far from the truth

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Gender equality has a spill-over effect on every aspect of society. Race equality, LGBT rights and every other form of equality is closely related with gender equality. People who believe in equality do not focus on one aspect of it like gender or racial or LGTB rights. They believe humans should be equal. All of them. Not just some. ALL.

The biggest enemy of this fight, I believe, is habit. We lived centuries in undermining if not promoting inequality amongst certain groups and not only that, we have society’s structure to fight against too. Let’s say we solve all these equality problems then the question remains- “how equal are we on society’s structure”. Every fight is important; every fight takes us to the next stage of achieving equality across the board. Why fight? How do you keep people fighting for these causes?

The motivation lays in the cracks of what the world would be like if everyone was equal. Gender equality will help everyone, not only women, but the world in general. It will promote every kind of equality in every level. If gender equality is realized it will inspire and transform the current way of thinking.

The effect will only be visible in the future generations, that’s why we need to keep striving to inform, to keep the conversation alive. We might not see the change, but we will be a step closer to make it possible. It’s not about women, it’s not about A or B cause, it’s about everything we stand for as humanity. Educating the future generations on these causes is the answer for change. Just like young people are educated about global warming and they are trying to do something about it. There is a shift of culture in making the world better rather than living in it, making the best of what we have, or accepting paradigms.

So why are they saving the world? Because they fight for all of us, they fight for something bigger than them-to make humanity better- to change the paradigms-to change beliefs forged centuries ago in the human brain-for this generation and the future generations-to eventually change the world. It doesn’t even matter if they realize this or not, maybe this is what we need to understand, maybe it’s what I would like to believe. One thing’s for sure, the fight is not even close to being over, for human equality is still just a dream.