Coming Out As A Feminist
2020 was undoubtedly a bad year, in fact the worst that we had hoped for. Yet it taught us some important life lessons. Personally, I am grateful that 2020 happened in my life. It finally made me come out as a feminist, strongly and without any apprehension. It is not that I wasn’t a feminist, in fact I was one right from the beginning but like many other women and men, I was afraid to proclaim myself as one because of the regressive men and the toxic women existing in our society and social media- men and women who constantly gaslight and manipulate the feminist men and women online and offline. However, all this changed in 2020, when I saw misogyny live on my social media feed- the space that I had just begun to explore post boards, and the condition is horrible. There were rape apologists busy in justifying rape as ‘the poor man couldn’t control himself, after all, he too has urges’, people who glorified rape as something beautiful and lastly people who denied that rapes e...