World Literature

“Gender as it functions today is a grave injustice. I am angry. We should all be angry. Anger has a longer history of bringing about positive change.”

I am angry, we should all be angry is so powerful so powerful it can stand alone. In her essay, “We Should All Be Feminists”, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie suggests that in order to change the way society views gender we have to start by not being angry but not dismiss everything women do to fight for their rights as unhappy men hating feminists. In every moment where women try to fight for their rights men call them ungrateful and bitter. That they will never be happy for what they have, these men believe that women are asking for the world. However Adichie is trying to prove that we aren’t asking for much but what we deserve. We would like to be treated equal to men, white men at that. These women are not bitter and angry for the wrong reasons, instead their cause has basis. Women are treated unjust but with this anger we have inside of us and bring about change. Not just feminist but every women, man and child. This cause is about everyone, equality for all no matter what race you are apart of. Feminism is about being angry and hating mean, on the contrary it’s about bringing equality for women no matter the race. It’s also about bringing men color to the same level as their white male counterparts. This anger that we have built inside of us can help end this grave injustice not only for women now but for all in the future.