Female emancipation is the fact or process of being set free from legal, social, or political restrictions; liberation.

In most civilizations and societies in history, women did not have the same rights as men, but were barred from the public spheres of politics and economy to a very large extent. Their place was at home, and their task was to raise the children and attend to their husband, their master.

It was not until the rise of modern democracy and its claims for political equality that women gave voice to their own demands for a share in this “equality of all men”. Not surprisingly, women were not very successful for centuries. Overtime, women who were in a privileged condition, enabled them to fight successfully not just for themselves but also for their bourgeois and working class.

By the early twentieth century women had become an integral part of capitalistic industrialization; especially as clerical staff or factory workers they were by now virtually indispensable. As a result, major Western countries introduced the vote for women after the first World War. Yet in most European countries full legal equality had not been achieved until well into the latter half of the century.

Even so the women’s liberation movement of the sixties and seventies pointed out that legal equality for women is by no means the same thing as their factual equality in the fields of culture, economy and politics – a claim demonstrated and enforced by many high-profile campaigns. The fact remains that in 21st century’s Europe full equality for women is still a far way off – and as for other parts of the globe, well…

In the 21st century, where times have become more open and modern that women are given more rights, their voices are being heard, their opinion mattered, why does it still feel like it is truly not enough? One of the biggest “issues” this year itself would be that feminists are seemed as over-reactive women.

A feminist is a person who believes in the power of women just as much as they believe in the power of equality. It’s equality, it’s fairness, and I think it’s a great thing to be a part of. The problem would be the people who are used to the privilege. In this case, more than not, men. After all it is said that “to those accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.” I could not agree more.

Women finally have had enough. Because women’s work is underpaid or unpaid, what they look like is more important than what they do, if they got raped it is their fault and if they love women, it is because they are unable to get a real man. If they stand up for their rights, they are loud and obnoxious, and if they do not, they are typical weak females. If they want to get married, they are out to trap a man, if they do not, they are unnatural. If women object to being sex objects, they have no sense of humor and for many more reasons they are feminists.

How would you feel if phrases such as “you run like a girl” is actually an insult? Your gender becomes an insult. There are so many great female runners, athletes and so much more. Yet, even after achieving so much, they are constantly faulted for the mere reason of their gender. Is that even fair?

A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience. Why does society feel the need to constantly oppress women in every way possible? For example, if there is a product that people want or need and you are supplying that, I understand that. But, if you need to resort to shaming people into wanting and buying your product, then we have a problem.

Fairness cream, anti curls, weight loss and so much more. Why are all of these targeted to more women than men? Do you know that if tomorrow, women woke up and decided they really like their bodies, just think of how many industries would go out of business?

Women get irritated, overwhelmed and at the same time, completely sucked into all this madness. They are roped into being the “ideal” women, a domestic pet. Every small thing to the bigger ones is just much harder for women. Such as marriages for example.

The process of changing your name when you marry is easy…as long you’re a woman taking a man’s last name. If you want another option, it gets harder. Perhaps a woman taking her husband’s last name as her middle name instead, to keep her family name as her last name.

The moment the internet knows a woman is getting married, forget about global warming articles popping up as ads. Blinking ads imploring a woman to lose weight or choosing a gown, booking a venue, picking a new detox diet plan are all that a woman would see on her screen.

A woman invites a group of people to celebrate a great success, and barely half the crowd shows up. She invites the same group for a wedding and people flock to celebrate an unknown man. On the other hand, men, do not get “slim down for the big day” or “affordable wedding decor”, none of those. Aren’t the grooms also getting married?

If a woman is ever going to make it in a male-dominated power structure, she would have to eat, drink, breathe and sweat self-esteem. Women are always forced to think that they are weak, fragile creatures. In actuality, they are strong and powerful. The most common way people give up their powers is by thinking that they do not have any. Women truly do have powers way more than they give themselves credit for.

If society would stop making women just focus on being a pretty face, having a great body and being a good wife, it would be a blessing. However, women also need to stop taking Barbie as a role model and teaching young girls that beauty supersedes everything. What’s the greatest lesson, a lady should learn? That since day one, she’s already had everything she needs within herself. It’s the world that convinced her that she did not.

Freedom cannot be achieved unless the women have been emancipated from all forms of oppression. Women are becoming the men they wanted to marry and there is nothing wrong with that if men (not all but a large quantity) continues treating women like scum.

Fighting for women’s rights has too often become synonymous with man-hating. Feminists do not hate men, they just hate the inequality that most men treat them with. Young girls should be growing up and being taught to worry less about fitting into glass slippers. They should be empowered to shattering glass ceilings. There is no limit to what women can accomplish.

Feminism is the radical idea that women’s safety is more important than men’s feelings. It has gone far too long and men have been given the benefit of the doubt far too many times. There are great ladies that women could take as role models and aspire to achieve big success. Women should not be afraid to do that. Make that choice. Being a Female, is a matter of birth. Being a Woman, is a matter of age. But, being a Lady, that’s a matter of choice. Be a lady and be proud of it.

Woman’s Rights will be glad to learn that the finishing touch is just being given to the reform of the law relating to the property of married women. The act of 1848 was the first inroad upon the old common law doctrine which vested the ownership of everything that a woman possessed at the time of her marriage, or which she afterwards acquired either by gift or bequest, or purchase or labor, in her husband’s hands.

Under that rule a woman’s only mode of saving whatever she might own at her wedding, from passing at once to her husband and becoming liable for his debts, was by a special deed of settlement; and that is the only means to which women in England, as well as in many States of the Union, can resort at this moment to secure themselves against the pecuniary risks of wedded bliss.

In New-York, what a single woman possesses at her marriage now remains her own after her marriage, and whatever she subsequently acquires, by gift or devise, comes under the same category. But by a strange anomaly the act of 1848 did nothing to secure her in the possession of the earnings of her labor, though the women who are obliged to labor are unquestionably those who stand in greatest need of legal protection, and though a woman’s acquisitions made in that way are more indisputably and decidedly her own than any others whatever.

A drunken, idle or vagabond husband might regularly despoil a most industrious wife of the fruits of her toil — might seize and retain her weekly wages, and leave herself and their children destitute, and she had no redress. True, if anybody left her a legacy, or made her a present, she might keep it, and bid the conjugal spoiler defiance; but the women who have worthless husbands, and have to work hard for a living, are rarely blessed with bilious uncles from India, or old bachelor cousins delighting in Christmas generosity.

The reform in the law, therefore, though it certainly was a reform, and a great one, did little for that class of women which the common law doctrine most sorely oppressed. When this bill shall have been passed, a married woman will stand, as far as her property is concerned, in a position of still greater independence than her husband; for while he continues to be liable for her debts, she will not be liable for his. He will not have the slightest claim upon anything she possesses that will not be based upon her affection, and if he should turn out a scamp, she can go into business, earn her own living, and whistle him bravely down the wind.

We fear, therefore, that, now that women are freed from all legal disabilities, and seem disposed to compete with men in every walk of life, they must submit to the operation of the same harsh rules which regulate the struggles of the sterner sex. To succeed, either as ministers, or physicians, or merchants, they must preach and heal and bargain better than their neighbors, whether men or women.

They have more prejudice to contend with than men, and this is their misfortune, for which there is and can be no help. This is the fortune of war, and if they will fight, they must take it. People will not patronize you, sometimes because you are too young, sometimes because you are too old, sometimes because you are a Christian, sometimes because you are an Asian. And these prejudices have to be conquered in the old, time-honored way. They must be removed by deeds, by success, by energy, and superior ability.

What I have stated above although mostly involves European or American countries, it goes the same for Asian countries and so on. Women are still being oppressed, they are liberated to a certain extent but the world could do so much better than this. The biggest reason why I quote those countries was because they were the first few to pass down laws for a change.

If they can, why can’t other countries follow their footsteps? Why can’t you? You see a lady out there, do not patronize her for she is a woman. Your mother and sisters are women. Regard EVERY lady out there with respect. Women are human beings and they deserve to be treated and respected the way men get from society. If you are not part of the problem, then do not just stand by and do nothing, you are also adding on to it. Help. It is about time we all did the act of helping instead of merely saying that we would.

This one is to all the women out there, fighting their battles every single day to be part of a male dominated world. You will be heard, you will be respected. I urge you to never lose that fire and passion you have within you. Do not let any one dismiss you or diminish you. You are far more great than you would ever give yourself credit for.

Here’s to strong women. May we know them. May we be them. May we raise them.

Movie: Ralph Breaks The Internet

Characters Involved: Vanellope & 14 Disney Princesses (Snow White, Cinderella, Aurora, Ariel, Belle, Jasmine, Pocahontas, Mulan, Tiana, Rapunzel, Merida, Elsa, Anna & Moana).

xoxo