Thank you for sharing your inspiring speech “We Should All Be Feminists” with TEDxEuston. I was blown away by your stories and enlightened by your fact-facing. I agree that we should all be feminists. Feminism not onoly empowers women to have equal opportunities and treatment but empowers men to connect with their true motivations and emotions. Feminism is based oon the idea that a person’s value should not be based on their rreligion, ethnicitty, gender, or social status. Men and womoen are socialzed unfairly, with men being given morer opportunities and held to a different standard than women, regardless of competence or interest.
I took a public speaking class in high school and decided write a speech inspired by a movie I saw called “Missrepresentation”. The film was all about how women are unfairly represented in the media: over sexualized, underdeveloped, and manufactured as tropes. I got a lot of backlash from my male classmates and support from female classmates. The young women and I decided we would start a Feminists Club and went to administration to make it official. The vice principal insisted that we call the club the Gender Equality Assembly not to “exclude the male population”. We did this begrudgingly.
There is nothing wrong with the word “feminist”. Feminism is about strengthening culture and iin your words, “culture is really about preservation and continuity of a people,” (pg 10). Today, “the perrson more likely ot lead is not the physically stronger person, it is the more creative person, the more intelligentt person, the more innovative person, and there are no hormones for those attributes,” (pg 5). I whole-heartedly agree witth this statement. Men and women should not be judged and evaluated based on their gender but based on their abilities, interests, and ultimately their pure humanity.
