In her usual style, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie just dropped some awesome feminist knowledge.

In a speech given at Wellesley College’s Commencement ceremony on May 29, the award-winning author discussed feminism, male privilege and daring to speak your mind.

Adichie said that she understood from a young age that the world did not cater to women they way it does men.

Huffington Post reports that Adichie then told her audience of young female graduates a number of ways the can promote feminism and take the world by storm as follows:

1.Write television shows in which female strength is not depicted as remarkable but merely normal. Teach your students to see that vulnerability is a human rather than a female trait.

2.Commission magazine articles that teach men how to keep a woman happy. Because there are already too many articles that tell women how to keep a man happy.

3.Campaign and agitate for paid paternity leave everywhere.

4.Hire more women where there are few. But remember that a woman you hire doesn’t have to be exceptionally good. Like a majority of the men who get hired, she just needs to be good enough.

She concluded the address on a beautiful and poignant note, telling the young women that the most important thing in the world is love — but remembering to give love and take love is key. “Now girls are often raised to see love only as giving. Women are praised for their love when that love is an act of giving. But to love is to give and to take,” she said. “Please love by giving and by taking. Give and be given. If you are only giving and not taking, you’ll know. You’ll know from that small and true voice inside you that we females are so often socialized to silence.”

Adichie finished her speech, telling the crowd: “Don’t silence that voice. Dare to take.“

http://freshestgist.com/index.php/2015/06/25/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-drops-4-ways-women-can-promote-feminism/

I support this...

Fair enough!


The only issue is that women love to be praised for anything they do. If she works and is a mom she wants to be praised for that. But if we just make it look ordinary and not hype women or better yet praise them as much as we praise men, I think it's fair enough.

I kinda love that paid paternity leave stuff

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ice25:
I kinda love that paid paternity leave stuff

hmm

Me likey

Lmfao ... Some people go tey for their Papa House eeehn

Gender equality is one hell of an illusion joorh

Cc Victoriabee

vote4lekinz:
Cc Victoriabee

I have actually read it, and she's spot on.

VictoriaBee:

I have actually read it, and she's spot on.

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