I am not a big fan of posting every detail of my personal life online for people to see, I mean who wants to know I had a latte with my chicken ceaser salad? I don't want to know about what you had for lunch. But one thing I do like about social media, in fact my favourite thing about it, is the huge platform it creates for amazing people to share important news that shouldn't be turned a blind eye to. I love the voice it gives to people who want to campaign for something they believe in, and something I very much believe in is female empowerment, but I wont call myself a feminist, I’ll just copy Meryl Streep and say “I’m a humanist” because I too “am for nice, easy balance.”  I don't believe in inequality and I don't believe in the asymmetrical sexual moral standards between men and women. It seems there has always been an unfair advantage for the male gender, even in todays society; unequal pay for the same job or faces remaining stubbornly male in higher jobs of industry and government. Sure, the position of women in modern society has improved drastically over the years, but we still have a way to go until we see gender equality. Feminism has been around a long time too, beginning some time in the 18th century with people such as Jeremy Bentham and Marquis de Condorcet who opposed female inferiority and advocated for women suffrage. We have seen feminism in 1909 with the “votes for women” posters given out at the height of the suffragette movement, and in 1943 with the famous “We Can Do It!” poster to create a strong female figure during the war. All the way up to recently with the “like a girl” campaign in 2014, that teaches young girls that it is okay to do things “like a girl” because girls are strong and independent. I think we can all agree that it is not right for anybody to be ashamed of who they are and it is not right for anyone to have to do less then they want to in life just because thats not what is expected. So no, I don't like posting my whole life on social media, but that is not because I am ashamed or embarrassed, it's because I don't need or want anyone else's approval or permission to live my life, and I believe everyone should be empowered enough to say the same thing about their own lives. 

“We are the authors of our own lives.”

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