True feminism begins when a woman stops defining herself primarily by her gender. Financial independence is central to genuine empowerment, dependence on a partner's income keeps women confined to biological roles. Despite rising education levels, many women still choose economic dependence. Freedom without wisdom is dangerous, and authentic liberation means transcending gender-based identity entirely, earning one's own livelihood, and realizing one's full potential as a human being.
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Originally published in The New Indian Express
The Essence of True Feminism
True feminism is really when the female stops taking being a female as her primary identity. If you want to talk of feminism in the context of women's liberation, then this alone is liberation. As long as a female is fighting for her rights as a woman, she is not liberated. She first needs to be liberated from the concept that she is a woman. If she continues to identify primarily as a woman, her genetic conditioning, biological impulses, and physical drives will continue to influence her. And that would obviously make the achievement of her potential as a human being very difficult.
If feminism is true, it would seek to liberate the woman, and in that liberation lies her empowerment. So, if you talk of embracing your feminine traits and such things, that's not doing any good to you.
