Feminism, and the feminist. A small guide:

First let us look at the dictionary meaning of them:

Feminism: The advocacy of women’s rights on the ground of the equality of the sexes.

Feminist: A person who practices or believes in feminism.

Femi-nazi? That’s a pretty new internet slang for the people (for society, it’s women by default) who think women are more superior than men. Who think males have more privilege than they deserve.

So, the question arises that ‘How and why are they different’? And ‘How the internet and the society perceives the three’? Questions about women rights and women taking advantage of those arise quite frequently in our everyday lives. Women on one hand say they are tired of men who think they’re inferior and at the same time, expect those men to lift their bags because they’re supposed to. No man is entitled to be your slave, coolie or butler unless you’re incapable of doing your own work or you’ve hired him for it.

The woman who complains about being discriminated should know that being equally treated is a pain too. Imagine if a man punched you in the face for looking at him while he sunbathes on the beach. Imagine if your man hands you his bag while he’s having a drink, and because he can’t carry it all himself. Imagine a man expects morning coffee and breakfast in bed from you because when he does that it’s so much sweet and gentle of him.

If all that was provoking to you, then you’re a femi-nazi and you’re no different from an abusive male who never got the right education from his mother.

I sympathize with the men who never got to know how beautiful it is to have the first bleed of puberty, the first compliment from a desirable man, and the first feel of life in the form of a child in their womb. We females get to enjoy that and yet we complain. We complain that we’re inferior. We, my fellow ladies, aren’t inferior. We’re treated that way because men have a tendency to generalize things so that it would be simple for them to learn how to treat women.

For example, we love painting our nails and we take care of our appearance like we are taught by our moms. In those days, the culture said, for grabbing a man’s attention, you have to be as delicate and decorated as possible to make him feel wanted, like you’re in need. Like you need to be treated as a child, who is incapable of heavy work. Complicated? Let’s see what the men perceived of it.

And men generalized it as, ‘women are sensitive and weak’.

These things, because of years of practice and experience, have rooted deep into their minds and in my own opinion, their own different variants too. The older men keep telling old norms to young men and generations hence think we women overreact to everything.

Women have started voicing their opinions just recently. It’s just that the wrecking ball has struck a house too big to fall all in one shot. If discrimination falls, so will the privileges that came with it. Accept it only if you’re ready because one day you will have to answer your lover, sons and daughters (maybe).