Indeed, we should all be feminist

In my constant searching of feminist videos I found one from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, where she exposes her thoughts and experiences about this theme. But before talking about the video, I would like first to talk a little bit about her. Ngozi was born in Enugu in September 15 of 1977, and is Nigerian novel and short story writer. She has won certain amount of awards from her work, as for example, the O. Henry prize for "The American Embassy". She also won the David T. Wong International Short Story Prize 2002/2003 (PEN Center Award) and a 2007 Beyond Margins Award for her novel Half of a Yellow Sun. Ngozi's short stories and speeches have been used in a lot of academic and educational institutions, and she's also a prominent woman because of her intellectual skills; stronger woman's rights fighting sense, and because of her unstoppable spirit of equal justice. In this video called, "We should all be feminist", Ngozi shows us a little bit of her magnificent spirit.

We should all be feminist focuses in the ideology we must fight for, which is the one that state that man and woman should have the same rights and the same opportunities, in order to create a more equally world, and so, a better place to live. Ngozi start this speech mentioning that regardless of the physical difference (sexes, hormones, force capacity), woman and man should be treated equally, and that the society shouldn't focus on those differences, but in which person is more creative and intelligent. One phrase that really catch my attention is when Ngozi says "humans have evolved, but mentality of sexes and gender have not evolve". According to that, we can get noticed not only that it isn't far from the true, but actually that this true is one that we must fix. Chimamanda says, "a feminist is a man or a woman who says: yes, there is a problem with gender and we must fix it, we must do better". So, what is happening? Why do we still quite? Ngozi also says that "culture doesn't make people, people make culture". So, is it a problem with our culture we must fix? Yes indeed! Because by changing our mentality in benefit to the cause, we become changing agents, and then we will inculcate this right mentally, which is justiciable one. Once this is done, our culture will be more variated, and more equally. For example, the novelist says "what if when teaching children we focus in ability instead of gender?" This is a great suggestion that should be considered.

For me this video is impressive. The way she uses the words and how she doesn't try to persuade the audience, just because the speech itself is persuasive, is really awesome. This woman have become one of my most powerful idols, not only because of her feminist ideals but also because of her promotion of the african culture. I love this kind of humans beings, which try to fight and broke those wrongs paradigms, as for example, the one where it's stated that the woman is inferior than man as black people are inferior than white people. What is wrong with us, people? We need to stop this manner of thinking. If we continue thinking in that way, then there should be some kind of caos, as in Sodoma and Gomorra, which should lead to the extinction of humanity. I can't tolerate this kind of injustices. And as Ngozi, "I am angry. Gender as it functions today is a grave injustice. We should all be angry.".