I'm a feminist. A true feminist. I believe hugely in equal rights and I think that while we have come a long way since the Women's Suffrage Movement, I still believe we have got a long way to go. However, I didn't join in in the Women's March that was happening worldwide, and I didn't think it was a particularly strong march. I know, controversial, but hear me out.
Image taken from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Women's_March
According to Wikipedia, 'The Women's March was a worldwide protest on January 21, 2017, to protect legislation and policies regarding human rights and other issues, including women's rights, immigration reform, healthcare reform, the natural environment, LGBTQ rights, racial equality, freedom of religion, and workers' rights', and this is entirely my point. The Women's March should have been a Feminist March, focussing entirely on WOMEN'S rights. Of course, racial equality and LGBTQ rights and everything else on that list are extremely important issues that DO need to be addressed, but by combining every issue into one march, the strength of the arguments were weakened. When I first heard about the march in America I was proud to be living in a time where women are not afraid to fight for their rights of equality. However, the more news articles that popped up, the more tweets, the more photos on Instagram, the quicker I realised that this march was not just for women's rights. Please don't think that I am being racist or homophobic or against healthcare reform and the natural environment, but I do think that all of these issues would have been taken more seriously if they were done in separate protests, not straight after each other, of course, but over an extended period of time, I believe that several separate protests would have made a lot more impact than just one, jumbled, confused march in which everyone was there for different reasons. I think, especially in America, Trump would have been forced to at least think about all these different issues if the march was separated into several different protests, focussing on just one thing.
Moving on to the Anti-Trump protests. America, I hear ya. Your President was not elected on the popular vote and you've now got a sexist, racist, homophobic cheese puff as the leader of your country, the biggest country of the world. I hate him too, and in America, these protests should go on. If you are unhappy, you should protest against your president. However, he's only been in office for 2 weeks. On the one side, he has already informed everyone of his plans to build a wall, cut abortion funding, and made a ban on certain ethnicities entering the USA, which is horrendous, but he did say that he would do all of these things, and he is sticking to his word. I digress, as this is not the issue I really wanted to speak about. I get American's protesting. But why are people in Britain getting involved? It's nothing to do with us, and while London is a major city in the world, it is not going to make any difference. Not only that, but the London protest spread to places that Trump will have never heard of, such as Swindon, the small town in the South West of England that I used to live in. If Trump isn't listening to the protests going on in his own state or country, what is a few thousand people in the tiny South-Western town of Swindon in England actually going to achieve?
I don't know, these are just my opinions and I am truly sorry if I have offended anyone, it was not my intention to become a second Katie Hopkins, but these are my thoughts on the matter. If you agree with me, please leave a comment explaining why, and if you disagree with me, please leave a comment arguing your opinion, and hey, you might even change my mind!
Again, I am really sorry if I offended anyone because that really was not my intention and I 100% believe in equal rights for everyone, whether you're male or female, a different race, or a member of the LGBTQ community, because we are all humans and we all should have equal rights in this world! You just be you!
With love,
Chloe x
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