Day of the Week 🗓️: Monday
Weather 🌡️: Balmy 66 Degrees
Moon Phase 🌙 : Waxing Gibbous
Holiday 🎇: National Mario Day
On This Day 🗺️: In 1945, the deadliest air raid in WW2 is set upon Tokyo, killing mostly civilians.
Mood Ring Reveal🌈: Hopeful
Anti-ideology moves fast and vast across the country in the wake of the 2nd Trump era. With more and more becoming disillusioned with left-leaning politics, many are associating free thinking, free speech, and freedom itself with right-leaning politics. The oppressed have now become the oppressors.
What does the above title do for you? Does it invoke a sense of victory for woman rights? Would you think that the truth is finally being upheld? Could it make you think, “Republicans are protecting the rights of women more than the Democrats ever could.” Carefully placed calls-to-action can generate emotional responses to non-problems. Results ensue. The terms ideology and dogma have become interchangeable. Feminism falls into leftist ideology, and there is no room for individualism. Treating ideology as a religion by the Right while simultaneously becoming the defenders of the modern day “heretics”. I’m pretty sure the president sees himself as the Lord standing up to the Pharisees, at the cost of intellectualism, individualism, humanism, and everything in between.
When woman denounce feminism, it’s one (or both) of these reasons:
- To appeal to men. Think, “I’m not like other girls.”
- The view of feminism they have is that of the 4th wave, which was given great exposure by social media.
The 4th wave of feminism is not perfect by any means, matter fact I criticize it greatly for being sanitized, branded and aesthetically pleasing to those who could care less about the fight and only want a safety net for negligent behavior. When you ask a common woman what is their understanding of feminism, most likely they will refer to popular 4th wave sentiments (girl boss, future is female, my body my choice slogans) or name a popular figure like Susan B. Anthony. You might find a lady who knows their way around a little bell hooks here or there, but if you were to name subjects like Womanism and the contributions of Zora Neale Hurston, **cricket sounds** .
Maybe because I am a black woman through and through, and maybe because I am a feminist tried and true, the amount of black woman denouncing feminism is disappointing. Feminism was created by white women for white women is a misstatement of facts. Circling back to those good ole words of ideology and individualism, the rushed conclusion into thinking that one set of beliefs fits all undermines the foundations set by the enduring standards brought forth by Ms.Hurston, or Toni Morrison, or bell hooks (I named all writers sorry I’m biased). The goal is that all woman deserve equal standards. Yet, we are going beyond backwards by not allowing ourselves to formulate what a goal signifies to the soul. At one point, I had two thought that feminism wasn’t for me because of all the antithesis content I consumed, but when I put my mind out there in order to let my eyes see for themselves, I learned that all women need feminism. Black women need it the most, for our own safety, survival, and wholeness.
Written on March 10th, 2025
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