Feminism?

Why does feminism still exist? Because inequality exists. Why does inequality still exist? Because ignorance still exists. Why does the ignorance of inequality still exist? Because we are ignorant to what and who we are, so in the egos attempt to find comfort through superiority we create classes; gender, wealth, geography, anything to validate our illusion of superiority and a separate existence. Can we address the still existent need for a movement of gender equality without addressing all of it? The root of it, that root which feeds and is the source of all these “ism’s” that separate; Sexism, racism, nationalism.

Can we ever hope to end the need for a feminist movement, if we do not seek to understand why it is we create separation to feel superior? Can we ever understand this without taking the time and effort to seek to understand this? And will we ever take that effort unless we realize we are the problem? Not them, but us.

Once I ranted about equality, I vehemently judged and pointed and blamed. Blind to the sexism and “ism’s”existing within my own conscience. Blind to the deluge of inequality that is our global culture. Feminism exists because I am sexist; sexism exists within our culture because it exists within me.

It’s easy to examine the behavior of others, but can we examine our own? Can we be brave enough to take personal responsibility for the state of the World and all it’s “ism’s?” Our culture is but a collection of individual consciousness, we are the culture, and the culture is us. Can it be any other way?

We will never be rid of sexism until we understand the need for superiority in our own lives, superiority of any kind. Until each of us examines this within ourselves and fully realizes that we are all, already enough, that there is no fight to be fought, only ignorance to be understood, sexism will exist.

This belief that we are not enough is what causes us to destroy others to make us so. When we mock, publicly or privately we are engaged in the roots of sexism. When we take comfort in our possessions, in our status, in our gender, in our sexual identity, we are engaged in the root of separation and ignorance which is the root of all war, beatings, rapes, and discrimination. Violence and hate exist within society because they exist within us.