how many of you have ever heard of the
word feminism okay so all of you the
textbook definition of some nism is the
social political and economic equality
for both men and women how many of you
have ever heard of the word of a Nazi ok
so significantly less of you a feminazi
is a particularly degrading term used in
the media and some people to describe
feminism and feminist I am a feminazi
but would it surprise you that I’m not a
bra-burning anti shaving man hater that
I made out to do I have my own
definition of feminism which is equality
no matter who you are or where you come
from when everybody’s definition of
equal of feminism is different so long
as the core belief is equality you can
change your definition to better
yourself in your community and to
ultimately change your personality
yourself your community and eventually
the world and so many people have done
that but it’s often confused with
misandry misandry is the belief that
women are better than men while misogyny
is it believes that men are better than
women so is the reason it’s often
confused from the San jury because all
the influential leaders were women like
susan b anthony and Gloria Steinem but
that’s not true because there are many
feminists like my dad in prison Barack
Obama and the person who coined the term
feminism in the eighteen hundreds was a
man named Charles freire so feminism
with its male audience isn’t such a new
age thing since Charles for Yosef amex
but feminism is both an old and a new
age thing it has been helping to work
and create awareness for issues such as
maternity leave political rights of
great care centers and much much more
and sorry and it’s expanding to
encompass all of our 21st century needs
this is gender stereotyping wage gap and
heck even still voting rights in some
places with the passing of title 7 in
1974 it allowed coed sports and coed
schools and this has been great because
now you can run on my coed soccer excuse
me khoa track and cross country teams
and if we fly cross-country team back in
the fall we went to the championships
and we all did pretty well um and I love
my cross-country and track teams and if
while I’m not on a coed soccer team I
can still play represent my school and
soccer and I love soccer and for my
school and if this hadn’t changed three
to feminism it would seriously affect my
mental health my schoolwork and my
social life in my grades and I’m so
grateful that I have the right as a
young woman to play markings at my
school sports however my great
grandmother oh okay leave your killer
did not have the right to hold your own
bank account um but now thanks to
feminism she can do that now
she can hold her bank account did we
make your purchases but if this hadn’t
changed you to feminism how would she
have held a staple access to money or
held her own baby or made major
purchases that’s she her husband died
about 20 years ago and both of her
children were women same thing with my
grandmother who in the picture she’s her
daughter she divorced her husband many
many years ago but if this hadn’t
changed your feminism how would she have
been able to make money and keep it in a
safe place and buy a house by car the
thanks to feminism in the United States
this issue has been solved but it still
hasn’t been solved worldwide so during
the election I saw poll or more
specifically a map displaying if we may
put it both in America ago and as you
can see the whole map is it basically
filled for this one candidate and this
sparked a trending Twitter hashtag
called hashtag ok hashtag reveal the 19
where people were saying we should just
take away the 19th amendment which
allows women to have the right to vote
so my candidate wins yeah and which
shocked me by this was that I wasn’t
shocked by this as a feminazi I was not
shocked by this and it got me thinking
is this the everyday sexism
experience in my everyday life yeah it
is and I didn’t do anything about it
partly because I’ve 13 and you know
noted Twitter because of my parents and
internet restrictions but in my mind I
wasn’t doing anything about it either
and this this is the moment that I
realized that I’ve been influenced so
much into believing that a this sexism
has gone away in my society and be even
if it hasn’t it’s perfectly fine and
it’s not the media has influenced us so
much into believing that men need to be
hyper masculine and on steroids five
wives devoid of any emotion to be happy
and they tell us that women need to be 5
10 and half an inch with a 16 inch waist
and perfect long flowing blonde hair to
be happy and that’s not everybody that’s
one percent if not less than what
percent of the entire population and it
still affects everybody’s body image
heck it’s affecting my body in a
negative way these I mean I’m 5 feet and
healthy for my weight in my height but
I’m not the most cookie cutter for the
media and it’s a big issue that nope
seeming to solve and it’s been going on
for centuries but this is just one
example of inequality that feminists are
fighting um so let’s take a break for a
second remember about to school when
your arms were full of books and you’re
trying to make it to your class in two
minutes and you thought I can do it how
many of you with that person okay go
have a few maybe it takes a while to
remember back to school so how many of
you said thank you okay so outside
people um I pricey thank you to every
person holds the door open for me
because I wouldn’t be making it to half
my classes without them um but I can
guarantee you they don’t hold the door
open for a pat on the fact that not you
well if I think them smile no they do it
because they want to give you the right
and opportunity to pass for an open door
and the privilege of getting to your
classes on time and while maybe and
while maybe you can’t have you can’t
folded over themselves because maybe
you’re always late you can still walk
through it and recognize that somebody
is holding the door open for you and you
should be grateful for them and this is
our perfect metaphor for feminism
because feminists are still working and
they’re holding the door open and they
have been for thousands of years but
it’s just as important it is for
somebody to walk through the door that
feminist
and holding open because they can’t hold
the door open if there’s nobody to walk
through it so it takes as much to
acknowledge that something has been
holding the door open as it does for
somebody to take that and more open for
you I am NOT a feminist though for a pat
on the back things you do it again
tomorrow I’m a FEMINIST because I want
equality and I want to be equal to
everybody else and I want everybody else
to be equal to me and if you are if you
believe in some sort of equality
congratulations you’re a feminist go
hold the door open oh because equality
is some nism and feminism is equality so
I challenge you to think of your own
definition of feminism and how and how
feminism has helped you in your everyday
life [Applause]