Stop silencing women- we have voices too

It’s the year 2019, where freedom of speech is supposed to be at the top of importance, when women shouldn’t have to continue fighting for their rights; it’s the year that our voices should be heard. Unfortunately, change is inevitable.

Women still work the same jobs as men but yet make less of an annual salary. Women have continued to speak their minds on topics that frustrate them but they still aren’t taken seriously. Men and anti-feminist complain about feminists being “too sensitive” about any occasion that we disagree on, but those people have it all wrong.

All feminists want is for their voices to be heard. If the world is tired of hearing feminists complaining about particular matters, don’t ignore us, actually listen and open up your mind to the words that are spewing from our mouths. Feminists today aren’t speaking because they get off on hearing themselves talk, but they are voicing their concerns and opinions on what they feel is sexist, inhumane, or unequal. One would think after years and years of fighting for women’s rights that society would have taken a bigger leap towards complete equality, but no major step towards equal pay or sexist views have changed.

If I am being completely honest, I don’t like to be seen as an extremist when it comes to my feminist views and I am not one to try and convert people to feminism. I am simply speaking for the women in this world who are still sick and tired of having to continue the constant fight of equality among the sexes; women just want their voices to be heard and to most importantly be taken seriously.

A few years ago, there was a trend going around where women in the workforce who worked professional jobs felt it was necessary to take a voice training class. This class trained women’s voices so that instead of them speaking in a high-pitched tone, their voice would be heard as more of a manly sound. The lengths women went to, even still to this day just to have their voices heard and taken seriously is absurd; it’s disturbing that some women feel it’s necessary to change the tone of their voice just because they fear they aren’t being heard completely.

Women are seen as fragile, soft-spoken, and timid when it comes down to going after what they want. Just because women share different body parts as men do doesn’t mean they aren’t powerful, strong, and driven human beings. I believe that women are equally as strong as men if not more powerful since we have had to dig, scratch and claw our way through to the rights we have today. I can’t stand it when people tell women to “be a man, think like a man” in certain situations where the woman may be nervous about something. This common phrase is used way too often and yet people to this day still don’t see it as a sexist statement.

To all the women out their reading this, if there is anything to take away from this article, it is to ignore those that look you in the eyes and tell you to be a man; scratch that. Women, be a woman, think like a woman. Be the powerful, brave, outspoken, strong-willed woman that you are and don’t ever let someone make you feel less worthy of being heard. We must continue to speak or minds when an occasion arises that we don’t agree on. Eventually, the world will become tired of hearing us speak and maybe then, the change we’ve been striving for all this time will eventually occur.