Though I consider myself a feminist, I wouldn’t say that the views I hold align with the views of the modern feminist. 

When it comes to job inclusivity in today’s male -dominated workforce, I fully recognize that the concerns of women are warranted. In previous years, women with exemplary credentials have been brushed under the rug in exchange for men with less qualification. I believe in a broad spectrum of gender equality in and about the areas of —business and everyday life fair pay and proper means of punishment for men or women who commit sexual assault.

This past week in cities across the country women marched for equality—well, that’s what I thought they were marching for. But after hearing various speeches from multiple women’s marches, I was shocked to hear a theme of race and white privilege integrated into several of those speeches. 

Cecile Richards, President of Planned Parenthood, declared that as white women we need to do better. “White women, listen up. We’ve got to do better. It is not up to women of color to save this country from itself”, Richards said. So, I must ask the question, what is it that I need to be doing better?

I must admit my bewilderment and shock by this divisive and dividing statement. I’m seriously wondering how rights of women has suddenly become a message of racism in 2018? Shouldn’t it be the task of everyone involved in our country to fight gender inequality? 

Richards is living under the premise that women have been receiving unfair treatment because white women haven’t been vocal enough, and that they somehow need to be activists spreading the antiracism gospel to all in earshot! I’m truly wondering if the far-left leaning activist really has the issues that they claim to be suffering from, or might it be that they are somehow being fed a brand of Kool-Aid which produces a hypersensitive state of thinking and reacting?

The women’s march is certainly not the all-inclusive group that they claim to be -to the contrary, it is a group of women who fit certain criteria. These criteria are of liberal ideologies- ideologies that exclude women who are pro-life or support the use of firearms. The Women’s March is not an event that empowers and unifies women. Instead it is a group whose views have narrowly latched onto the liberal politician’s secret weapon that is their failsafe. This states that if you can’t honestly and openly debate, then you simply cry “RACISM,” and opponents will go running into the shadows with their proverbial tails between their legs. 

Richards went on to say, “The good news is, when we are in full-on sisterhood, women are the most powerful, political, and cultural force in America.” Her statements do not promote a sisterhood based on shared gender and the fight to make things equal for genders, but rather promotes racially charged bias and thinking. 

How can white women feel like they’re in a sisterhood when they’re constantly being held accountable because of the color of their skin? And how is it that so many of these gender-equality seeking activists aren’t really unifying based on the supposed premise of whether you are a man or a woman, but instead on whether all of your political ducks are in a row? As women, instead if seeking out differences we should be looking for ways to unify. Because like Richards, said when women when we come together we are a powerful force.

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