Feminism: What is it?-Julia Shapiro

Back in the day, feminism meant hating men. The notion around the word “feminism” was that feminists (which were only women) try to exceed men in this world to be “superior”. To me, hating men and trying to be “superior” as a women is NOT what feminism means. The people who created this definition of feminism were mainly conservative men, who were/ are afraid to see change between genders and sexualities. The definition of feminism that I agree with is to fight for the equal rights everyone in this country is promised to have. Compared to what the notion on feminism was a decade ago, now in the year 2020 the notion has shifted a little. After so many years of fighting for rights, women are now receiving access to basic needs. Women of color, poor women, and queer women are still fighting for their own specific rights. Although there has been a great deal of improvement made when it comes to women’s rights, I still question the fact that women are left out of the movement. My question for my feminist project would be “How do we seal the divide in the feminist movement?”