“As long as women’s natural body hair is called disgusting and inappropriate while men’s isn’t, I am a feminist.
As long as I can’t watch an episode of a popular sitcom without having
to sit through multiple sexist comments or “jokes,” I am a feminist.
As long as women have to face the rational fear of being sexually
assaulted every time they walk home past dark while men don’t, I am a
feminist.
As long as misogyny exists in any country in this world, I am a feminist.
As long as women are being raped, then stoned to death or forced to marry their rapist, I am a feminist.
As long as companies promote men to manager when there are women who
are equally as or better qualified, because they find that men look more
authoritative, I am a feminist.
As long as women (her choice
of clothes, her friendly nature, her weakness, her choice to drink
alcohol) get blamed when men rape them, I am a feminist.
As
long women’s opinions on online social networks are dismissed with
phrases like “tits or gtfo,” “get back to the kitchen,” “are you
pms’ing?,” I am a feminist.
As long as dressing like a women is
degrading for men and as long as men are insulted with phrases like
“you throw like a woman,” clearly implying that being like a woman is
shameful, I am a feminist.
As long as both men and women are
expected to work, but taking care of children and the household are
still largely considered a woman’s job, I am a feminist.
As
long as boys and girls are treated differently, expected to act
differently, and surrounded by different toys and colours from the day
they are born, I am a feminist.
As long as topless women aren’t allowed in public unless they’re on the cover of a men’s magazine, I am a feminist.
As long as women who have sex frequently are generally told they are
“sluts,” “lacking self-respect,” and “lacking morals” by both men and
women, while men who frequently have sex are “just being men” and it’s
“natural for them,” I am a feminist.
As long as there are places where women have to pay more for health insurance than men, I am a feminist.
As long as men experience situations with equal gender representation
as female-dominated, and don’t consider a group discussion equal unless
there are significantly more men then women participants (as has been
proven), I am a feminist.
As long as there are men who think
it’s their wife or girlfriend’s duty to have sex with him whenever he
wants, I am a feminist.
As long as the word feminism (“the movement aimed at equal rights for women”) has a negative connotation, I am a feminist.
As long as misogynist people exist, I am a feminist.”
— LE CHRYSANTHÉME: I am a feminist
