Humanism is a philosophy and an attitude that focuses on human dignity and human values. It is based on the belief that individuality, free will, and intellectual development are important aspects of life. Humanism has developed over centuries as a way of thinking that focuses on promoting human rights, compassion, justice, and equality.
To think about difference implies, then, to formulate a new humanism, a feminist humanism or to conceive feminism as a search for humanity. Don't you find this definition and combination of humanism and feminism wonderful? I've been thinking about this binomial for days, since last February 14, when I moderated a roundtable with four transversal and inclusive voices to talk about the feminist man.
An anthropologist, a businesswoman, a journalist, and a writer were the thinking minds who shared with us how they see feminism and what a feminist man is like. And, with that scenario, we were questioning whether we can talk about feminist love. The debate opened up very ripe melons that we were eager to try.
It would be interesting to travel with these roundtables through different world capitals and create this collage of what feminist love and the feminist man are like.It seems revealing to me to mix the current of humanism with the feminist movement. After all, we are talking about philosophy, historical moments, and social changes. We are talking about being and being feminists. As the French philosopher said Simone de Beauvoir, one is not born a woman, one becomes a woman, and the same happens in feminism: one is not born a feminist, one becomes a feminist. It is a path of thought and action, it is a set of tools, experiences, experiences that happen to us and shape us into that attitude and outlook on the world.
We explain what a feminist man is like, how we imagine him, how we see him and how we want him, and we have come up with the x-ray of a wonderful human being who can only be positive, necessary and desirable.
From the first world and the amalgam offered by a Mediterranean capital like Barcelona, a feminist man is: 1.Kind, 2.Compassionate, 3.Complex, 4.Conscious, 5.Caring, 6.Deconstructed, 7.Empathetic, 8.Fucks-well, 9.Generous, 10.Humanist, 11.Unfinished, 12.Intelligent, 13.Free, 14.Woman, 15.Peaceful, 16.Person, 17.Sensitive, 18.Sexy, 19.Brave and 20.Vulnerable.
And from this composite sketch, we also open another discussion, and we ask ourselves if love can be feminist, and we came up with a totally inspiring definition of feminist love; it is a non-monogamous love, it is not linked to motherhood, there is a lot of affection and feeling. It is not a love of surrender or submission, it is of admiration, it is above all of self-love, it is anti-Disney and anti-Hollywood, it is free, with bonds, non-binary, it is mature, compassionate and secure.
One is not born feminist, one becomes feminist: it is a path of thought and actionIt would be interesting to travel with these round bars through different world capitals and create this collage of what love and the feminist man are like and, above all, what kind of feminism we want and need. Feminism does not have a single definition but, for me, it is sustained by these three fundamental pillars: equality, democracy, and freedom. I was able to confirm that feminism is more alive than ever and that it only makes sense if we approach it from humanism and with a transversal and inclusive perspective.
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