5/19/2023 0 Comments Chimamanda ngozi adichie manifesto![]() ![]() ![]() In her acclaimed book ‘ We Should All be Feminists’, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie says that according to her a feminist “ is a man or a woman who says, yes, there’s a problem with gender as it is today and we must fix it, we must do better. I was left appalled at that conversation not only because of the amount of ignorance one must have to make statements like these but also at the sheer misunderstanding people have about feminism and what it means to be a feminist, which, while being many different things to different people, is certainly not equivalent to being a misandrist. On a personal note, just the other day, I heard a close family member say that being feminists in this world is a recipe for unhappiness, disaster and women can lose out on the joys of life, like marriage and companionship and even a great career, if they hold on to rage and their men-hating tendencies. People fear feminism and its consequences, because so deep-rooted are patriarchal ideas in human minds, with the centuries of conditioning we have undergone as a species, that they believe it something to be detested, something hateful and better avoided if one is to be happy in society. ![]()
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