Stop calling it Feminism, it’s Humanism
“I was happy because I wouldn’t want to stay with daughters who are not getting married. Because that in itself is a problem in society. People today think being single is nice. It’s actually not right. That’s a distortion. You’ve got to have kids. Kids are important to a woman because they give extra training to a woman, to be a mother.”
“Woman’s love involves injustice and blindness against everything that she does not love… Woman is not yet capable of friendship: women are still cats and birds. Or at best cows”
We must not allow ourselves to be deflected by the feminists who are anxious to force us to regard the two sexes as completely equal in position and worth.
These women just need a man in the house. That’s all they need. Most of the feminists need a man to tell them what time of day it is and to lead them home. And they blew it and they’re mad at all men. Feminists hate men. They’re sexist. They hate men — that’s their problem
These rather Neanderthal like quotes are from Jacob Zuma the South African President, Frederich Nietzche , Sigmund Freud, and former presidential candidate, Jerry Falwell.
I guess from a women’s perspective, with friends like these — who needs enemies? It is no wonder that things like divorce by text, marriage nullifying rape convictions and genital mutilation continues to persist across wide swaths of the world.
When I complain about women’s rights I am called a feminist, however the look that accompanies this moniker is like I am a leader of an ISIS terrorist cell. Clearly the name feminist is not considered a badge of honor by some of the un-fairer sex.
So I decided to delve a little more into the attitude of the word feminism, Maybe, just maybe, people are scared off by any thing ism — Communism, Nazism, Totalitarianism.
OR- Maybe it’s the ist in feminist — Ist in it’s meaning is also a problem for me. Because you can’t be born an ist. It’s not natural. You can’t be born a baptist; you have to be baptized. You can’t be born an atheist or a communist or a physical therapist. You have to have these things brought to you. You become an Ist by a process not a natural right. So feminist includes the idea that believing men and women to be equal, believing all people to be people, is not a natural state. That we don’t crawl out of our mother’s womb assuming that everybody in the human race is a human, that the idea of equality is just an idea that’s imposed on us. That we are indoctrinated with it, that it’s an agenda, a campaign.
This question that lies before us is one that I think should lie behind us.
In the public discourse, there’s one word to deal with race. Racism. That is the word. And it implies something very important. It implies something that we are past. When you say racist, you are saying that it is a negative thing. That is a line that we have crossed. Anything on the other side of that line is shameful. It’s on the wrong side of history. This is something that — although we know there clearly are racists, we know and abhor them, and in general people understand which side of the line they should be on.
But that is a line that we have not crossed in terms of gender — in general we have been on the wrong side of the line when it comes to the oppression of women through all of recorded history. Those who believe that women aren’t as deserving or don’t command equal footing in society, you are like the plague just pointless and deadly — indiscriminately killing and crushing lives.
Maybe its time to do away with the word feminism or feminist — maybe it should be supplanted with Humanism. Why separate sexes when you are speaking about basic human rights — the rights of women aren’t something to be achieved, they are something we are born to. There shouldn’t be a process where women achieve their so-called rights, There is no fuzzy middle ground. You either believe that women are people or you don’t. It’s that simple. So today I stand before you as a Humanist, supporting rights for all from birth, equal footing from our first breath.
Here’s to a world that doesn’t need to legislate that a women’s body is her own, that No means No, that equality starts with our first breath. Here’s to a world filled with Humanists.
As Mark Twain said:
What would men be without women? Scarce, sir…mighty scarce.”
