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What Feminism Forgot to Do

If you hate feminism, this is for you. If you’re a feminist, this is definitely for you.

Negin Safdari
Fearless She Wrote
7 min readFeb 21, 2020

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Feminism is important.

If you cringe ever so slightly at that statement, this is for you. If feminism angers you, this is for you. If feminism confuses you, don’t worry — it confuses many — and this is for you. And if you’re a feminist, this is most definitely for you.

If you care about any social movement, any act of influence (hey — even sales and marketing), this is for you.

I won’t re-establish why we need feminism, I won’t convince you to care. I won’t bash the patriarchy. No, in fact: bashing the patriarchy is the first mistake feminism makes.

I will explain why social movements should do the very thing that bothers them the most and will explain why they avoid it. I will explain why feminism makes you cringe, why it makes you angry and why it confuses you.

I will explain what feminism forgot to do.

If you identify as a feminist and find yourself thinking, oh god. Another woman placing blame on herself, she’s stuck in the patriarchy. Doesn’t she know this isn’t her fault?

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Negin Safdari
Negin Safdari

Written by Negin Safdari

Executive Recruiter @ Artemis Canada. Passionate about communication, funny tweets, and finding great leaders to change the world.

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