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Women have always been oppressed…?

By zarinamacha November 12, 2017April 18, 2023
2017 / Feminism

No. We have not. This is a feminist myth. Women have not been ‘oppressed since the beginning of time.’ ‘Oppressed’ is a strong word to use. Oppression could describe the people of North Korea; the slaves trapped during the Transatlantic Slave Trade, or the Jews in Nazi Germany. Oppression means […]

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What is a misogynist?

By zarinamacha September 21, 2017April 18, 2023
2017 / Feminism

A person (usually a man) that hates women. A misandrist is a person (usually a woman) that hates men. I find the term ‘misogynistic’ to be often mis-used by feminists. Disney films have been accused of being ‘sexist’ and ‘misogynistic’ when I see nothing sexist about them. How is a […]

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What Makes a Man or a Woman?

By zarinamacha August 20, 2017April 18, 2023
2017 / Gender Differences

Genitals, obviously. When you’re born, the doctor looks at your genitals and says ‘it’s a boy’ or ‘it’s a girl.’ Suddenly the world has gone a bit crazy with this and decided to raise ‘gender-neutral’ kids, failing to realise significant differences between the genders. If men and women weren’t different, […]

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Women in STEM subjects

By zarinamacha June 15, 2017April 18, 2023
2017 / Feminism

The STEM fields represent roughly 85% of men and 15% of women in the UK. The same would be true of Psychology, except the stats are reversed. When I was in secondary school a company named Moody’s partnered up with my school to create a mentoring program in order to […]

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Is rape a feminist issue?

By zarinamacha May 17, 2017April 18, 2023
2017 / Feminism

Disclaimer: this post is not proposing a ‘solution’ to how to stop rape, it is looking at rape from a humanitarian perspective and refuting the claim that it is a ‘feminist’ issue. I have never been raped, and I can’t imagine how horrific and traumatic that must be. I know […]

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Female Privilege

By zarinamacha February 3, 2017April 18, 2023
2017 / Feminism

Feminists often claim that women are so oppressed and that it’s so hard to be a woman and that men have it so much easier. I don’t see how this is empowering at all; telling people that they are constantly oppressed (when they’re not, not in the West anyway) is […]

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Zarina Macha

Zarina started this blog in 2017 to document her general opinions and thoughts on life. Originally on Blogger, she moved it to Wordpress in 2020, and hasn't posted any content since 2021. She is currently updating the blog and plans to resume posting content by the end of 2023.
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