Should We All Be Feminist? - Oziel Juarez

Speaking as a male I can't and shouldn't really say whether or not people can be or should be feminist. I think my main goal in being a feminist ally is to support women who are feminist and listen to their viewpoints before ever expressing my own. Of course I could ignore all of that and simply say what I want to say, but then I would be ignoring one of the basic principles of feminism; ignoring what women want to say. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's video "We Should all be Feminist" speaks all about this. How women are constantly ignoring just to hear the man speak or women being seen as nothing but housewives. Another interesting point is how Adichie is Nigerian so her viewpoint is much different from American women. This shows, while American women certainly do face many struggles and endeavors, that women in other nations, such as Nigeria, do not even have half of what women in America or Europe have. It seems as if while America is in 2017, Nigeria, on the other hand, is in the 1900s version of America. Women are treated as third class citizens in places like Nigeria. While I am saying that some places have it harder for women, than others, I am not saying that women can't still be outraged where they currently reside. I am simply saying that women have unique struggles everywhere on Earth and it would be wrong to categorize all women's struggles into one. So, with that, although I don't speak on behalf of women, I do think everyone should be a feminist, but because there are inequalities to begin with, not everyone wants to support women's rights and be a feminist.