The Final Wave

Morals are about emotions. It may sound odd to those of us who are used to associating morals with knowledge and rational thinking, yet emotions and feelings are knowledge too, just not the reason-kind of knowledge. Because morals are about emotional knowledge, morality isn't ruled by reason. In fact, we can sometimes have a hard time explaining rationally why we feel something is immoral or moral, and this leads us to the following conclusion: morals matter but challenging morals matters more. It is while we challenge morals that we find that feminism isn't rejected because it is rationally indefensible, but because it is emotionally reprehensible to people whose morality has been shaped by patriarchal ideals from childhood, because morality is about getting others to agree with us. Patriarchy claims women are individuals who should serve men, and that women's subserviency is a moral question that requires a moral answer. Feminism insists all people should have equal rights and that women's legal personhood is a question that requires a rational response, because women are people too. As women we are all worthy of equal rights and a life that is uniquely our own, and we all need feminism to learn to love ourselves, to appreciate our bodies, to celebrate our minds, to understand that being a woman is not a shameful thing, it's a creative thing. We all hold in ourselves the power to create not only a new life, but a beautiful life when we free ourselves through feminism. But we cannot stop there. As free humans we need to work towards the liberation of all humans. Until every human is free, no human is truly free. Live free, love freely. This is the message of the Final Wave.