Feminism

But it is more than just that. It is the soft, reflection of one lover to another, the kind, unkempt spirituality of reverence for one another. And still, more than that, it is the rising sun of vitality and rebirth. It is more than just Feminism, but Equalism. Just as a woman deserves the rights enjoyed by a man, a man ought to enjoy the same rights as any woman. It is not about destroying the differences between a man and a woman, but appreciating the quality of the diversity of the genders. Creating equality between the sexes is not about destroying the attributes of one sex or another that make them unique, but it is about upholding their abilities to do what they do as individuals, and understanding the genders sexually, because that is really the only difference. It is a radically absurd statement to claim that no woman can do what a man can do, and the same applies to the claim that no man can do what a woman can do. Appreciating the diversity of the genders does not entail holding stereotypes towards one or another that are the most accurate, but understanding that not every woman is the same, and that not every man is the same. It is about understanding that a person is an individual because of their own taste of culture, because of their own personal ethics, because of their intellectual hunger and their artistic love, because of their own virtues and their own vices, that make them not just another person -- it is about understanding that a person is an individual with their own love and hate, their own past and memory, their own future and hope, and that one's gender does not alter their individuality in the slightest.

A Sexist will find himself confused if he asks for the best, the kindest, and the most intellgient, those full of the most ambition and duty -- a Sexist will find himself confused when asking humanity this, and finding that men and women both step forward. A Racist will also be confused when he finds that one race is not wholly (or even marginally) responsible for good people, kind fathers, affectionate mothers, and undying friends. The question really is: is there anything about a woman that makes her particualrly inferior, less noble, than a man' As sure as I can answer a Racist, I will say that good women are not good because they're women, and bad women are not bad because they're women. Similarly, there are many great men, as well as men of poor character, but their gender is not the root of their greatness or notoriety. It is in their adherence to humaneness and intellectual persuits, their unavowed romantic fascination with life and the ideal of a better world, it is the measure of virtue over vice that we find any one person worthy of our adoration, and their gender is only as relevant as their eye color, their hair color, their height, their weight, their race, their species. Just as one's eye color is irrespective of their abilities as a person, one's gender is not an innate factor in determining if they are productive, compassionate individuals.

Of all the greatest arguments against the equality of the sexes, none are as great as ignorance, deceit, and conviction in orthodox values. Values which are outdated in our new world, and our hope of a world full of justice, fairness, intellectual and emotional freedom, the values are outdated for this type of free society as any value containing barbaric and inhumane sentiments. And these values, which demanded us to shed rational inquiry and engulf ourselves in the suffocating veil of faith -- these values which repress every woman and her rights -- these values were as outdated the time they were made as they are today, because justice and compassion are eternal in the hearts of all Rationalist Humanitarians, and every sentiment of cruelty and hate will always be outdated and inefficient on their minds. Can an honest person truly believe that women are incapable of saying, "Give me affection, kindness, vitality, the ability to please those I love and cherish! Let me open the door to the library of my mind, the seething desire to learn and understand, contemplating forever the essence of life! Unleash the free emotions of sadness and joy, gloominess and happiness, and melancholy and bliss, undammed and unrestricted, free before the world of life!" Who can say that no woman can make these claims' Or any man' And who, even among the uncivilized and brutal, can deny to any soul yearning for the liberty to taste pleasure and intellectual accomplish' Only the most heinously despicable can oppose anyone's liberty to govern their own life.

Beyond the primary defense of Sexism, being ignorance nad cruel orthodoxy, there are the claims that women are typically different in some way, or that men are superior in another way. These claims run the spectrum of stereotyping, from claims that women are weaker, less intelligent, and sometimes this negativity will manifest itself in extreme opposites, that a woman is either a promiscuous whore or a pure and pristine virgin, that they either hate sex and reject it or that they love sex ......

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