Feminazi vs. Feminist

Hello again, it is I, your forever absent blogger!

I was going to post something back in August but it didn't save so, I'm posting it now - several months later.

I will start out by saying, I am proudly a Feminist. I will always support women's rights and equality and there is nothing in this whole world that will change that for me... I don't feel like women should be valued more than men and I don't feel like men should be undervalued. I think it should be equal.

Now, I read this nasty idea of Feminism that really left an awful taste in my mouth. It came out of a book I was to read for my college class - that I will hopefully be done with come December - called Alpha Girls. It's not an awful book but I think there is a lot of misinformation within that book and it really goes to show that the girls of this day and age are not being taught the truth about Feminism.

In the book it was quoted by a young lady at a college that she didn't want to be a Feminist because all they care about is women and she wasn't a man-hating individual. If anyone else knows anything about Feminism, they know why this is such an issue and such an offense to me...Feminists are man-hating women that want to rule the Earth. The girl said, "No, I'm not a Feminist I'm an equalist." Now take a moment to look that over...Is an "equalist" even a thing?? (Just a side note, my computer is telling me that equalist is either spelled wrong or just not a word)

Any true Feminist knows that we are not about women taking over the Earth and being better than men, we are about women being treated equally to men! Let me tell you who the man-hating women are, those are the Feminazi's, a very different thing than a Feminist.

The problem is, Feminism is like politics, it's a scale. Just like in politics there are extremists in Feminism. These extremists are what a well-balanced Feminist would call Feminazi's. Feminazi's don't just want equality for women, they want worship for women. They want women to be held higher than men, they often times "hate" men. I say a well-balanced Feminist because all the feminists I've encountered have agreed with me and they are neither extreme nor "social" feminists - by this I mean, they take feminism seriously versus socially including their input in regards to females.

I've known various individuals who had the same idea about feminism and when I proudly announce I'm a Feminist, they get very rigid and start pulling away from me - I feel the pull. They understand that Feminism is Women who hate men and think that one day we won't need men. Which is wrong. I knew an individual who I deemed as a misogynist yet they strongly disagreed but the ideals that they held about females concerned me, it was borderline Dominant/Submissive status.

They mentioned that they held respect for women but I observed that it wasn't the same respect they would hold with their good guy friends, and I'm not talking about in a good way. It's one thing to show your girl more respect than you would a guy friend but still showing a good amount of respect to your guy friend but this was like...they treated their women with the bare minimum "required" amount of respect, which is not a whole lot of respect...unfortunately.

I guess I should explain what I mean when I refer to respect, when I refer to the word respect this is what I mean, To hold someone with equal value as anyone else they may care about or look up to or even the same value as themselves.

When I refer to respect, I refer to the fact that no one should think more or less of anyone else unless they deserved that, and in order to deserve being treated less, you must do something very terrible in accordance to your morals and beliefs, in order to deserve being treated with more respect, one must carry a very strong influence on you or have helped you developed as a human being, this type of respect is usually reserved for parents - who were there for their children and set good examples - or teachers who went above and beyond in teaching them a life lesson or made significant contributions to your overall value of life. One should treat their significant other - girl or boy or non-binary - with the same respect they would treat their best friend.

If one has earned the title of best friend, they receive a large amount of respect but typically not a larger amount of respect than a mentor, teacher, or deserving parent (I say deserving parent because I know that not all individuals that have had children and called themselves parents deserve the same respect due to the things they may or may not have done to help improve their child's overall success and enrichment of life). So, when this individual expressed their views on women and how women should be treated, I couldn't help but call them a misogynist.

But, I digress, my point is, their first thought when they heard me say "I'm a Feminist" was, "Oh man, she's a man-hater." Which is simply not true. I hope that this shed a light on the differences and that you can share this with others who may be confused. I say we need to re-teach the youth of today what Feminism - true Feminism - means. It's a shame that so many have no idea the truth. We need to spread this awareness like jelly on toast - or just butter if your that type of person - and let people know what's up! This is an important difference!