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.

When we call another a slut, or objectify another human being in any way, when we lose sight that they are an equanimitous living being laden with the same ignorance as we; we’re engaged in inequality, therefore engaged in the roots of sexism. Can we not see that it is but degrees that separates thoughts from actions? And the “lesser” actions from the “greater” actions? Can we not see that anything which makes us feel superior in any way is the seed which blossoms into the World as we know it today, a world in which females are systematically and brutally treated as less-than?

The notion that a floppy appendage occasionally gorged with blood could be the source of superiority of any kind is too stupid to be addressed. So ridiculously ignorant that it can’t help but be seen for what it is, a deep insecurity existing within all of us, whether we are conscious of it or not.

It is not enough to be superficially satisfied that we are evolved. That is the myth sold to us by the corporatocracy that exploits the insecurities existing within humankind to its own profit. We pat ourselves on the back because our actions are no longer overtly sexist. We’ve obtained a consciousness of greater equality and think the problem is solved. So we return to the mindless void of our lives and slip back into the tub of ignorance.

What is the difference between thinking you are superior for being male or female, and superior for being an American? Or thinking you are superior for being a Christian or a Hindu, for making more money than another, or for your education, intelligence, jeans, car or house? There is no fundamental difference.

So why do we feel so insecure that we design and live or lives around this comparative notion of needing to be better than others? How are we so asleep that we still saturate our lives with images and concepts that tell us we are not enough so we will go out and buy what they are selling to make us enough? Because we are ignorant to what and who we are.

While we simultaneously feed and consume this lie the world suffers and we suffer. We live lives that support the myth of inequality while shaking our heads at the genocide of mass-rape. Wake-up! Please we must each wake up to our intrinsic value as living beings and we will wake up to the intrinsic value of all life.

This value, this peaceful abiding is not found through superiority or separation of any kind, but discovered when we see through the deepest of contemplation that each and every one of us is more alike than not. All of us are born, and all of us will die. All of us want to be happy, and every living being wants to avoid suffering. Is this not so?

When we discover that none is better, and none is worse, when we understand that we are all intimately connected with each other, there will be no need to seek the illusion of a false superiority. And sexism will no longer exist, not because it has been conquered, but because it has finally been understood.

I must be the change I want to see in the world- it’s the only way it ever happens.