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What public property comment ? 😕
Look, feminism has always been about the struggle for things like the right to vote, right for an education, equal pay or just pay, equal right to property, to make it illegal for women to be hit because a man decides it to be so. It is because there were actual laws that decided how thick a stick a man could use to beat his wife with if she did not obey. Even aristocratic women, so even the "high born" women were not exempt from this rule so you can imagine how it would have been for the servants. It is against using things like calling a woman a witch and accusing her doing magic to harm someone without proof like salem witch trials.This is just the history of the west. Feminism has historically and always will be a struggle against that.
I don't know who appointed Kangana a feminist icon for I am sure when she left home at 16 she did not do so to be a feminist icon and struggle against patriarchy. She did so to escape an oppressive environment and her grandfather and father where felt she as a girl child was not valued. When her sister Rangoli survived an acid attack it is not to be an example, it is simply to live her life. Kangana has achieved a lot but it is by clawing through BW. It is by demanding. Her life story is not going to be nice but parts of it like what she has achieved are very impressive. Does not mean her struggle was not real or she is a sati savitra. How does that negate feminism ? 🤔
Gloria Steinem is a bonafide feminist icon of the 70s. Madeline Albright has done a lot of work for women's rights. They also got into lot of trouble for saying that women should blindly support Hillary Clinton because she is a woman. A few foolish statements of theirs does not negate a lifetime of work nor feminism.
Kim Kardashian's version of feminism is take off her clothes for nude selfies and that should be accepted. Even some feminists have issues with that. How far is too far ? It is fluid and it is a conversation. But no one person is an icon or gets to define what it is. And just because the messenger is flawed does not mean the message is flawed.
Feminism has always been the struggle for a better world. Where a girl child need not fight for education, where women get equal pay, where dowry death, child marriage, acid attacks all disappear. It will always be fought by flawed, hypocritical women and men. But it needs to be fought because otherwise we will go to the dark ages and I am sure most reasonable people do not want that to happen, both men and women.
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