Today’s fight for women’s equality is on the frontline of many different equality movements, and perhaps the one that affects the a large portion of the population — approximately half.

For so long, this movement has taken tiny steps with few major leaps put in between long periods of without advances. The fight has only recently moved to its next stage of accomplishing its one and only goal: female equality with all men.

Yet while searching for the right ways to accomplish such a rough goal among many of the stubborn men of today’s society, the movement has created a new goal for women to fight for — creating a higher status for women than men. This new goal consists of absurd ways of getting the main point across and has caused a misinterpretation of the overall focus.  

By no means have I ever opposed the idea of female equality. In fact, I will always be among one of the first men to agree that women deserve an equal place in all of society with men. But I have begun to oppose the “feminist” movement entirely.

First, I would like to propose what I have developed as the definitions for female equality and feminism. I believe that female equality is allowing and encouraging women to have equal opportunities as men in all places in society. But I see feminism as an over exaggerated fight with other goals and ideas that has put a negative connotation with the notion of female equality.

Feminism today has gone too far, as it has now created a force that is destructive to its own cause. Across the fight, there are insane cases of women who go dramatically out of their way to insult men, even if that man’s belief is in the same as her own. She will do so just because he is a man. Feminism in some cases has created a new discriminatory force of women to men.

In a society that fights for so many groups to be equal, how is this supposed to move us forward? I understand that in order to get the point across in an effective way there has to be a forceful introduction to the idea. But fighting for it in ways that ruin the base of the goal in the first place would never allow for forward movement.

In order to create a more successful movement, women need to take a step back and realize their strengths individually and use them to their advantage. Women need to outsmart and outdo men in order to show the more stubborn side of society that they deserve every opportunity that men have. That way they can force men to take a step back and re-think how society is structured.

The feminist movement deep within has many of the right intentions and room for good change. However, the current tactics that many use to fight this relentless battle need to be re-thought and evaluated. Taking the first opportunity is almost never the best shot, but rather take the time to create an effective rather than destructive way to fight.