Equalist?

Feminism is commonly misconstrued. Not only is feminism not understood by those hearing about it on the news or in a weekly magazine, feminism is also in my personal opinion misunderstood by a large group of said "feminists." Rather than focusing on creating social equity and promoting an open equal society many of the so called feminist can be seen slandering men and tarnishing the reputation of the feminists that work to make change and tighten the gap between men and women. So while feminism is at its most basic form, vital to an equal society, it is often confused with the lowering of one gender for the sake of the other. In its original form I would whole heartedly consider myself a feminist, women play huge rolls in my life and I have always believed that women are equal to men. In a perfect world I would just promote egalitarianism, but it really just is not that easy.

Those of the feminists that are well educated in gender equality, do however, have lots of work ahead of them. One problem that needs work, illustrated in Amy Poehlers quotation clearly identified a common problem with todays perception of women. Why can a man talk and clearly boss people around and be considered driven and purposed, while a women performing the same task is still considered bossy? Until problems like this one are abolished those practicing true feminism and those hoping for a general social equity have a lot of work in front of them.