My Thoughts on Feminism

I remember for the longest time I was always afraid of that word: feminism. But recently I've seemed to come more to terms with it. Feminism is defined as "the belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities". So in knowing that, everyone in the entire world should be a feminist. So why isn't this the case? I believe its because of feminazi's, yes that's a real thing, and it's also why I never identified myself as a feminist because I thought that meant feminazi. In plain terms a feminazi is a radical feminist. I'm sure we've all been exposed to one feminazi or another at some point in our lives. First of all can I establish one thing: women are NOT oppressed in the United States. Frankly it gets me so mad when feminazi's try to argue this point. Yes you can argue that women in the US were oppressed in the years before suffrage, and that in many developing countries and middle eastern countries, women are in fact oppressed. A huge topic that feminazi's also express is that women are objectified in the media. Of course no one can argue with that fact because women's bodies are largely used to sell many products from alcohol to cologne. Or they bring up the fact of women stereotypes in television, magazines, and social media. While both of these are issues and need to be addressed, we have to consider two things in doing so, and these feminazi's are not going about this in the right way and therefore drive away the attraction to be part of the feminist movement. First, really? Are gender stereotypes and objectification really our number one priority? If it is I'm quite sad for you. The real issues that women need to be concerned with are rape and human trafficking. Yes you could be speaking about how women don't need to shave their legs! But maybe you should consider how many women and girls have been raped and their violators have gotten off the charge because they were "asking for it". Women can wear as much or as little clothes as possible or drink as much or as little as they please, that doesn't change the fact that no means no, and if you can't say yes it means no. This seems like such a simple concept and many women should be giving out this statement again and again and again until there is no need whatsoever for it to be said. Even rape and things like this are commonly accepted in many places where feminism would be a word that men would kill if they heard.  Women in other countries are fighting for their right to have an education, and to simply be independent and not have to obey their husbands and not be able to do anything when they are beaten by them. These are REAL feminist issues, and I don't hear enough about things like this that need to be stopped immediately but I do hear about how gender stereotypes and objectification pollute our culture. Yes this may be so but we really do need to look at the bigger picture. So let me go back to the definition of feminism "the belief that MEN and women should have equal rights and opportunities". Often feminazi's seem to overlook that there is not just female objectification and stereotypes. Yes it is more frequent to see it within women, but that doesn't mean men have it easy either. We cannot deny that mens bodies in video games and other media sources are jacked up to create huge muscles. Also as much as we see how women are overly emotional, sensitive, or crazy, we can see the same thing in men. Men are often expected to be tough and emotionless, and those that do not conform can be seem as gay and wimpy. Maybe at times this aren't as damaging as the ones uses for women, but we cannot turn a blind eye to them. In general it just makes me upset to hear many women just be so upset about things. I think that satirizing stereotypes and mannerisms is hilarious and when things like this come up in comedy it should be taken lightly and with a grain of salt. With that being said stereotypes should be used only in select few comic scenes. Recently a man named Matt Taylor had a break through in his scientific research with a Rosetta mission. Yet because his the shirt he wore, made by a women, featured women wearing little clothing, the feminazi's came out to play. The whole community sought to degrade him until he made a tearful apology. It's a shirt, do you really have to diminish a man's successes that he has worked his entire life for just because of a shirt, really? So yes feminazi's go on a rave about how women don't have to shave and freak out about how a man who made a huge scientific discovery wore an objectifying shirt while there are real women suffering for things that really matter.