Feminism is an energy telling us we are capable

The gun law to America is what feminism is metamorphosing into for the entire globe - it’s becoming debatable. Initially, both concepts were brought into existence for giving the living the upper hand, but since then they have wavered. Contrary to popular belief, feminism is not sensitive and it’s real. We own it and it is not fragile.

A ridiculous concept is the very basic idea that feminism is tender. It’s not. It is rough, beautiful, wild, free, equal and everything else that women are beneath the coffin of suppression and the dust of society’s expectations. “I don’t believe in feminism. I am definitely not a feminist”, are the unadulterated words pulled straight out of men not educated enough and women refusing to own up to equality.

Female feminists have to often face the contradictory smugness of those who claim that their belief is the only one, so firm because of their gender. It is very probable that the mental picture of womanhood being balanced against the forces of the opposite gender was formed in the chaotic brain of a female, because all around her she saw men lifting boulders, men creating fire, men ruling, men loving, men dominating, men hating, men inventing, men learning, men talking and men being worshipped. She saw it all, fighting with the energy in her saying that she is capable of all this. Of course when she said it out aloud it sounded way more stupid than the voice in her head and, to some, it still does.

We are high. All we need is for you to stop clipping our wings. We can be soft, we can be bold, we can be draped in seven billion layers of clothes or none at all, we can smile at you and we can frown. But we cannot laugh nervously or walk quicker or talk softer or open up a little bit more. We can do what you can, but we cannot do whatever it is that you want or expect or need. Feminism is not optional, it is like gravity. You may not believe in it, but it’ll always be there, exerting its presence.

- The reader is a student based in Dubai.