When the feminist animal in you is unleashed

Have you ever been put in a situation where it was left to you to defend the whole species of womankind?

It never ceases to gall me every time men insinuate that just because one or two women have been caught in the negative, then all women because of that are in the same bracket as those few women. SERIOUSLY!!!!

I am particularly frustrated by how women are expected to never fail lest they taint the feminine name. If a few female politicians fail, then it is said female politicians are useless; if a few female businesswomen act slutty, then apparently women in business are slutty and if there is a scandal involving female artists, then there is something to be said about those women too. WHY!!!???!!!!

Why won’t women be allowed to make their mistakes and learn from them? Why won’t women be allowed to be individuals, and not give ambitious individuals the burden of ‘doing it for all women’, or the rest of womanhood the frustration of being generalised???

Not that I am supporting women who do ‘funny’ things. Point is, men in various sectors – business, academics, politics, entertainment... they have had a lot of practice dominating the sectors; it’s no surprise they excel, well sometimes. Yet even when they botch things up, nobody goes “all men what what”.

Yes women go “all men are pigs” more often than not, but that’s besides the point. This is usually said when one’s heart has been broken, so it doesn’t countJ. And anyway, it’s a woman’s blog, so we are allowed to be biased all we want! But back to the issue at hand, this generalising about women just has to stop! It simply is not fair. Yes life is not fair, but this is just overboard! Yet when one or two women make it, you never hear people going 'wow! women are phenomenal'.

So if you have found yourself defending women more than once or twice, you are not alone in the struggle. Interesting thing is, you are probably not an activist, but one really cannot keep silent when she is alone against some “opinionated” chauvinists who would have us all removed from the public eye if they had their way.

PS WE WILL NOT KEEP SILENT AGAINST CHAUVINISM!!!