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I was 17 when I was acquainted with the other F-Word. No prizes for guessing the first. The only way we can get there is with a stringent and stubborn focus on gender equality.I was seven when I was acquainted with the F-Word.Feminism is equality. There. Because the structural violence of patriarchy started wholesale Beige Indian Leopard Print Faux Fur Fabrics with the dominance of man over women.The author is a women’s rights activist.

When one of those woven threads constituting the weft in the fabric is unravelled, society is crippled. It is not about man-hating, it is not about destroying men’s rights. And how will that impact other genders? When patriarchy subverted equality, the male was dominant, and the female was subjugated. It is about shifting the balance of inequality and restoring what women deserve to enjoy. It is not about claiming something at the cost of male interests.Renowned feminist, Kamla Bhasin once said that women are the last colony – and that all other colonies have been liberated. There is something intricately linking the backbone of society and women.

So, feminising the rhetoric by putting women back into the dialogue will lead to creating an equal space where none is seen as the dominant or the subjugated, and therefore, fluidity will not be an anomaly.In the same world where a woman has the freedom to work as an equal with a man, a woman is also subservient to a man. But the second? Feminism. A scholar in gender had mentioned it in one of her speeches that I had attended. Why call it so? Because women need to be put back into the equation of equality. It is, about creating an inclusive future where gender is not a disabler. This fluidity was seen as anomalous – for it was not considered ‘normal’ or ‘acceptable’ for the dominant to identify as the subjugated. But gender is fluid. In the same world where a woman is free to choose who and when she would marry, a woman is forced to marry a man many years older to her.

In the same world where women would be in charge of making peace, the bodies of women would be battlegrounds where war would be waged ceaselessly.We certainly, desperately need Feminism. I said it. This fluidity allows for one who may identify as male to also identify with certain aspects of female, or, for one born as male to identify as a female. A high-schooler casually dropped it in my presence before walking away. It sat in the shelf of forbidden words in my vocabulary. It became my life mission