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Feminism Vs Sexism Essay

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I am witnessing sexism v/s feminism since I opened my eyes. From ‘girls can drive too’ to ‘why should I cook?’ from ‘empowering women by giving them more opportunities to rise’ to ‘men never want women to succeed’- I’ve listened and observed many clichés. There is hardly any woman I know that is not in favor of feminism, and by favoring feminism they want more rights than men.
According to Wikipedia, feminism is a range of movements and ideologies that share a common goal: to define, establish, and achieve equal political, economic, cultural, personal, and social rights for women. This includes seeking to establish equal opportunities for women in education and employment. The Oxford dictionary defines the discussed term as ‘the advocacy of women’s rights on the ground of the equality of the sexes’.
The Cambridge dictionary defines feminism as the belief that …show more content…

Our history tells that women were always, and even now in some parts of the world, are oppressed just for being the bearers of the x-y chromosome. Not having the right to education, the right to vote, the right to choose the life partner for them, even not having the right to live, etc. is far another story. They should get all these rights because they are human, not because they are women!
Would the same women who raise their voice for feminism – according to them that is having more rights than men – agree if the men decided to give them more rights on the condition that the women would be given ‘equal’ treatment in every sphere of life? No. The ladies would never want to have equal treatment as men – they would never like to stand in the bus for hours, they would never like to work in the coal mines (though a few women work in mines), they would never like to take the cars to the service stations, even they would never like to listen to their fellow females babbling during the tiresome work

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