I don't always have ideas or inspiration to write. I had to get an article out today and I started thinking about social pressures and the eternal exhaustion of always having to be "up to par." Meeting expectations and measuring up. If we analyze everything, absolutely everything is cultural and accentuated by patriarchy and its exhausting gender roles.
A cultural expectation that is also in stereotypes. And in turn, these are also embedded in feminism.
It's not about who is the most feminist, the one who shouts the loudest, or the one who wears the Inditex t-shirt with the biggest "Girl Power" (created on the other side of the world precisely by women who have no power at all).
#feminism is not about seeing who is the most empowered, it is precisely about making sure that those who are not, are. One of the few movements and theories that is not about hoarding and applauding the one who knows the most or the one who is most awake.
Perhaps the thing I respect and admire most about this movement is that we know we won't have anything won until we all fit in and enter. The ultimate expression of solidarity here is to practice sisterhood, and that seems beautiful and necessary to me.
Feminist women like to wear heels on occasion and comfortable sneakers on others, wear a low-cut top or a high neck.
Wear simple or exuberant makeup.
Feel like princesses or warriors. Or sometimes one way and sometimes the other.
Feminists like to be flirty and showy or go unnoticed.
There are feminists who like to be given white roses or red roses. Praline chocolates and designer bags. There are feminists who prefer to pay for dinner and others prefer to invite to a movie and sleep embraced feeling protected and cared for.
Among the greatnesses of feminism is diversity. There is sisterhood as a fundamental pillar of the movement.
The success of feminism is the army of women, and increasingly men, who are united. Who understand feminism as what it is; Real gender equality. The opposite of feminism is called ignorance.
Feminists also fall madly in love, we are good and passionate lovers.
But more and more, with self-love, empowerment and without suffering.
And that vital process is due to feminism accompanied by our personal growth.