“Dear Daddy, I know you will protect me from lions, tigers, guns, cars, and even sushi, without even thinking about the danger to your own life. But dear Daddy, I will be born a girl. Please do everything you can, so that won’t stay the greatest danger of all,” said the narrator of the #DearDaddy Youtube video published January 7.

These final words directed to her father sends an informative message to the male population about taking inappropriate terms against women more seriously. In politics today, the term feminism is showcased all over media, believing that men and women are equal in all social, economic, and political ways. To a lot of men, sadly, this movement has become a joke. Men belittle women with cat calls, harassing terms, and whistle training or stereotype them as someone who belongs at home in the kitchen, or getting married and having children, because “marriage is happiness.” Society tells us to accept sexual stereotypes instead of confronting them, because as women we are made for the eyes and satisfaction of others.

“Men, women, and children, we all need to realize that these inappropriate stereotypes cannot be stood for anymore. The old saying ‘boys will be boys,’ just isn’t okay,” said junior Bailey Bethard.

It all starts with just one simple demeaning criticism, such as calling someone a “whore”, which, according to Dictionary.com, is “a women who engages in sexual intercourse for money.” This is what men use to classify woman as “used goods” and “trash”.

Why is such a terrible term thrown around school everyday so casually? Women, why do you stand for it? Society tells us that women should not be driven by sexual desires, but when a man allows his desires to cloud his sense of judgment he becomes a legend among his peers, because that’s “just what boys do.”

If you are truly fine with this then let them label you. When women also use these derogatory terms towards other women it justifies men’s actions.

Women aren’t “whores” or “trash”, or any of the other demeaning labels being plastered on us.

“There is only one way to change this, and it’s how we raise our children from this point on. It needs to be rooted in kids’ minds from birth that it is unacceptable to treat humans with any less respect regardless of race, gender, religion, or background,” said junior Cami Love.