Stereotypes Of Feminism

Gross armpit hair. Hippie motives. Bad hygiene. Bra burners. Manly. All of these are stereotypes of what feminism is made out to be. Feminism is more than these stereotypes and it can be shown through successful attempts made by the public. When looking at the aforementioned stereotypes, it is simple to get annoyed by the topic when most of the conversations turn into people shunning the supporters or feeling angry about the need to have total equality. The problem with spreading feminism is that it all gets to be too much and people get grossed out. Society is so focused on how certain aspects of feminism appear that the point of equality does not get out. If I were being labeled as a dirty hippie or a bra burner, I would most likely not follow through with the points that should have been getting out. The stereotypes drag down the cause when in reality, many successful movements have spread the news of feminism without being so gross and unusual. Today, getting a point across has proven to not be successful because people are too narrow-minded. When women begin to dye their armpit hair, for a reason that is not clear unless it is researched, society tends to turn away… completely missing the point that is being made. What is the point? If people have to Google the point
There are ways to have working movements that can be done by the “hippie” women as well as the “successful” women. Those ways come from just expressing a thought in its meekest form without having any strays from the true topic being expressed. Women such as Malala and the women of the Women’s Suffrage Movement may have been natural women or they may have been respected women with a high sense of pride. The point is, nothing gross or disturbing had to be done for the voice of equality to be heard. When an action does not have to be Googled to be understood, that is when natural beauty and art have been realized to the fullest