Suffrage or Suffering?

There are many people who think negatively of anyone who declares themselves feminist. Why? Well, the stereotypical anti-feminist is a male who thinks his sh** doesn't stink. Most anti-feminist are simply people who misunderstand the word feminist. A feminist is a woman who stands up for her rights. In America, women had to work long and hard to get to where they are today. We have to remember there are so many people who had to fight just so women could VOTE!!! (really all of you ladies out there not voting have to realize what other women had to endure just so you could!) We claim that we are not sexist. Yet the "glass ceiling" still seems to exist in our society. At this point in time, we've never had a female president or vice president. Men and women are almost as separate now as they were hundreds of years ago. Women still don't have nearly as many leadership positions. Women are still underrepresented in areas of science and mathematics. And to those who think that women have at least escaped the torture and cruelty of past generations can think again - many countries still have illegal sex slave trade. In China, women are looked down on because it is the men who carry on the family name and inherit the property. Husband and wife began to kill women born to them. The number of women (as compared to the number of men) dropped so low, China actually imposed a law limiting the number of children a family can have. Yes, women have come a long way from the past, but women still have a long, long way to go before we can say we are treated equally. "What happened to the dreams of a girl president?
She's dancing in the video next to 50 cent." - Pink
Our culture has actually gone backwards in our view of women. Yes, women are beautiful. But women are also intelligent beings with personalities and opinions. Once upon a time, women wanted to be smart and educated. Now all they want is to be "sexy." While men do differ in opinion on what makes a women sexy ( some guys like white girls, some only like colored girls, some like tight clothes, some like to have a little left to the imagination...) we can all agree its most likely not the girl sitting at home reading a book or watching tv on a Saturday night. Personally, this view of women can only mean one thing - there is an argument for feminism. The argument: women are smart, start treating them like it. Any one, male or female, who believes that a women should have the right to be CEO or President, anyone who disagrees with the slave trade that involves the rape of many innocent girls, anyone who wishes that people would stop having abortions based on the gender of the baby is a feminist. Aren't we all a little bit feminist?