
What Does Feminism Look Like in 2017?
Feminism in 2017 is a travesty. Not only is it a set back for women, but it poorly portrays womanhood in today’s society. With the creation of television shows like “I Love Dick” and “Good Girls Revolt” the feminist view is so driven by heterosexual sex, that it’s hard to grasp the ideas of sexual revolution-ism as a progressive step, but more as a woman (no matter her sexuality) wants to be with a man or wants to be a man. The hopes that I had for these shows were so quickly shot down as the powerful, strong woman (women) were driven by dick. They were portrayed as dick-hungry women who could not figure life out without the acceptance of a man.
Being a lesbian woman, I am expected to be more masculine or my wife has a level of masculinity to live up to in order to “even” out our relationship. It shouldn’t matter how close to a “man” either one of us are, we are women, and do not rely on the sexual gratification of a man. What’s sad is that because we are lesbian women society somehow views us as wanting to be male. We are not transgender we are women who love women, period.
Progression is falling upon blind eyes. Women are viewed as weak individuals who can do nothing without the aid of a man. We can’t work, have vision, an opinion or dreams without male domination having a foot in the progression. Is that progression? Feminism in 2017 looks like an entertainment ploy to get women on board, just to kick us back down. Could either one of the shows I had not had sex scenes and been a better production…yes! They would have been more empowering had they just been about art, revolution, empowerment, and women being women. Instead, I am faced with women feeling bad for their feelings just to have sex with a man or a lesbian sex scene that mimic a woman giving a man fellatio. It is ridiculous.
Not only am I faced with the mocking undertone from people that I encounter everyday, but I am looked at as a pushover because I choose patience instead of aggression. I choose to be happy for those that succeed around me in the midst of my shortcomings, I choose to support the women in my life to be better and to know that YES they can do whatever it is they want to do. I want to let go of the societal-implanted bitterness towards other women for doing or having more than me. I want to keep trying to smash through stereotypes and be a part of something bigger. I want feminism to look different than it does. I want it to be a real revolution.
Free love, free support, freedom for all women is how I picture feminism in my mind. Free of male domination. I want the familial paradigm to be what we want it to be for our children, whether that is two mommies, two daddies, a mommy and a daddy or single parenthood, we should embrace the role a caretaker because we choose to give care, not because it is a woman’s place to bore children and care for them.
We can change the way feminism looks. It can be molded to fit you as a person, as long as you choose the way you want to live. Let’s take back what we see as negative and weak and turn those things into positivity and strength. It starts within us and ends within us.

