I Need Feminism

         Wednesday, 26 March 2014, we had attended a talk and launch with title "I Need Feminism", which organized by a group of students who come from Department of Communication, from 12pm-2pm, at Lower Foyer, Main Block.

This campaign "I Need Feminism" had a talk regarding the topic of empowering young women through fashion and the importance of feminism in this day and age. Besides, it is worth that they had invited two speakers to attend which are Ms. Wei San from the All Women's Action Society (AWAM), and Ms. Anna Nishaburi from ZALORA to share some information about Feminism.

One of the fact question asked by AWAM that I could remember and agree is Feminism is about challenging systemic inequalities, men are not the enemy, Patriarchy is. Sometimes, many men hear the word "feminist", they feel very disgusted, they think that the group of feminist women are just because they can not find a man so that they try to attack men. In addition, there is also another argument, which is due to human instill down the old concept from the past, so now people will still consider the social status of men are higher than women. According to online data, it shows that only 20% of men admit to feminists, 25% of people believe that "feminism" is an insult to this title. 

In fact, feminism has profoundly changed the lives of women and men. Feminism had made ​​a lot of important implications in the western countries, including women the right to vote; relatively equal wages; the emergence of proposed initiative of divorce and the "no-fault divorce", the rights of safe abortion and ligation, the right to get university education and so on. 

For me, feminism is necessary to fight for more power because their main purpose is just to qualify for gender equality in the whole world. While the term "Feminism" was not born in Asia, the concept itself, that women have equal rights, and that they have to fight inequality, that is a part of their own heritage.