So I'm starting this gender equality blog because...

I can no longer call myself a feminist because to most people, that word means that I don't believe there are any issues that only face men (when there clearly are). So many people excuse the double standards set up against both genders because they happen on both sides, but why should there be any double standards? We consider America a very advanced country, and yet both women and men are suppressed by their gender norms and how society tells them they should act. Just because we are past the point where women are beaten to death for cheating on their husbands and a man can wear a scarf in public without being ridiculed does not mean we are far enough.