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Definitions of Feminism

 "Feminism is an approach/belief/ideology that men and women are equal. And therefore, they should have equal access to health, education, resource, employment and other opportunities. There should be no discrimination on the basis of sex. Moreover, feminism calls for devising such socio-economic policies that result in equitable outcomes for both genders." (Standford. Edu) "Feminism calls for endowing women with opportunities and avenues that her natural faculties make her capable of pursuing. In essence, women should be allowed to achieve self- actualization." (Garret)

THE YOUTH OF PRIVILEGED EMOTIONS

The head spinning phenomenon when someone asks you a question you don't know the answer to that a lot of other people have asked you before? Well, that's what's been lately. Educated people who share Rumi quotes have been doing that more than the ones who don't even know who Rumi is. I find it fascinating how people so confidently post inspirational quotes and think that their lives are entitled to living according to it, and when it comes to conversing about the confusion of the lost lives the youth of privileged emotions* are living nowadays, they forget that they had posted that quote on Instagram they are ignoring in this conversation and (un)knowingly spreading the hurt they felt at that moment they hit share. This head spinning is ok. We are fine as we are. And we don't need the world to tell us what to do and how to feel. Social media gets us. Our misery can be shared by the lit screens in our hands. Our hands are being held by electrons, sent to us by hands ...