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Why I Choose Not To Be A Feminist
Neither should you
I read the Feminist Manifesto by Chimamanda Adichie. It was impressive, but I decided not to be a Feminist.
Before a human fetus develops into a male or female fetus, it is first a human fetus.
We are Humans before we are male or female, black or white, gay or straight or bisexual, and even before we are rich or poor.
This is the gospel I uphold.
If every human is perceived first and foremost as Human, most other things will fall in place.
As humans, we are similar in more ways than we’re different.
Our differences are the quirks that add color to our existence.
Our beauty is in our diversity.
We may disagree on a lot of things, but there are always common grounds where we would find agreement.
My mother would say “What a man can do, a woman can do better.”
But a better way to say that is ‘What a man cannot do, a woman can do and vice versa.’
One of the most ridiculous concepts out there is that of the Battle of the Sexes.
The biological or whatever delineation that exists between the sexes is not antagonistic, but complementary.
