Feminism has been shamed because feminism is dangerous. It tells that WE ALL have worth, and the same to boot. This is not something you want in a society built on many hierarchies, so of course the word feminism will be changed so people will stop knowing what it is. It seems like in most America this has succeeded and it is going the same way in Europe just not with the same speed.

The people wanting people to believe we are not of the same worth truly wants us to believe feminism is females that think they are better than men and want to grab power, and that feminists are ugly and man hating. Of course no one will want to be a feminist if you are told feminists are ugly and hate half the population!!!

But mainstream feminism is not striving towards a matriarchal structure, it is solely against the patriarchal one and wants a balanced structure where everyone is their own person and not oppressed based on gender. Most feminists want to release what unfair power they have towards men. They want the father to be seen as much of a parent as mother, both in marriage and in cases of divorce. They do not want lenient penalty for female criminals solely because they are women.

We could call it equalism or something, BUT the problem with a shamed name is that the next name for something some people see as unwanted, if it is changed, the new name will be shamed too! It has happened many times in history. Some people dislike retarded people, so they make the word retarded sound bad, so now they change it to mentally challenged or special, and now special has a bad ring to it. Homosexuals wanted to be called gay and now the word gay is shamed, everyone knows what "That is soo gay" means. It's not good, LOL. In some parts of Scandinavia, gays did the opposite, they claimed a shamed name for homosexual, equally to f*g, and instead of it turning even worse, it turned into a normal and descriptive word. That tells me it is wrong to change shamed words, we need to reclaim them.

Of course men and women are not the same, and sure muscular growth and childbirth sets us apart.... but.... that is on a GENERAL level. If we separate women and men into groups made from the most extreme men and women, both genders often have to make themselves strive towards something that is not natural for them because we don't allow a spectrum. We also don't allow easily men closer to women in traits and vice versa.

Just think about how tall we are. You can claim women are shorter than men and be correct. Does that mean all women are shorter than all men???? HECK NO!! There are plenty of women that are taller than men. So in that sense men and women are not that different, there is always a clustering in the middle without much difference, and that has to matter more than we make it matter. But people think in black and white. They cannot accept this kind of spectrum even if mentally it is very much proven true.

So I find it very harmful to push someone to "have" traits they might not have because of gender. That means we should not push a tomboy into a stereotypical gender roll. But also, something that follows and some feminists miss, is that it follows logically that if someone is naturally girly they have the right to be that as well! Same with men we have to accept all kinds of men from soft men to geeks to what is now seen as manly men.

Try to argue with me.... :P I know I'm right. He he.