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Sometime last month, this woman posted reasons why she loves her husband and one of them was that he lets her visit her mom. A lot of people were in the comment section talking about how that was bare minimum, blah blah, and how she shouldn’t praise him for that. I must confess
It was my first reaction too. Then I decided to take a step back, and I realized that for some people, what we refer to as bare minimum is something they haven’t experienced at all in their lifetime. And being able to feminist properly, or be woke , is a privilege. And sometimes
We ignore/forget about our privilege because we except other women, from other parts of the world to be on the same wavelength with us. So for e.g, if a woman has grown up in a country where women get killed when they take off their hijab, and she says she is grateful for a
Family that didn’t kill her when she took hers off, that is not bare minimum to her. It is a big deal
There’s still a lot of work to be done to emancipate women from the shackles of patriarchy. But let’s not forget so many women don’t have access to good men, so they can’t end up with one. And oh they can’t stay single. That itself is a privilege. And oh they can’t even complain
About how they’re being treated. Or try to fight for their rights like a lot of us have learned how to. Let’s not forget a lot of women don’t even have access to the internet so they can’t get involved in these discussions. So before you call something bare minimum. Or ask “how
Did she end up with someone like this?”
Check your privilege
Check your privilege
