Walk a Mile in Her Shoes

“Sometimes you have to put yourself in other people’s shoes to really understand the hardships of their souls.”

-Kellie Elmore

A young woman once said “Sometimes you have to put yourself in other people’s shoes to really understand the hardships of their soul”, being the writer Kellie Elmore. Throughout the past, women have been treated in such a low position that it’s ridiculous how they were treated. They were nothing more to men, just an object. However, everything was changed when they all began to have their say, and it all began with an amazing woman named Elizabeth Cady Staton.

Elizabeth Staton was a feminist; in fact, she was the president of the first women’s rights movement where she fought for women and their freedom. She once said “The best protection a woman can have is courage’, and I agree with her. Some women have become weak or afraid, and it was a big issue in the past because that showed that they were powerless, however things have changed, now they show more courage compared before, standing up for themselves, which is a great step up actually. Discriminations towards women are everywhere, although Elizabeth had won the movement, the problem still continues to the present day.

Many women have achieved so much, women like Cleopatra, Marie Curie, Amelia Earhart, or Rosa Parks, even though you may not know who they are, or not even care, they are women who took part in changing the world, so stop belittling them, they can do so much more.

Whether it’s a little joke about women belonging in the kitchen, or women being told what they can and can’t do, these are all discriminations, and they need to stop. I’ve got many women, who are important to me, whether it’s at home, or at school, it doesn’t matter, they are all important to me and I want all the discriminations towards them to stop.

Whichever shoe it is, it doesn’t matter, how about trying to walk a mile in her shoes, and I don’t mean literally taking a woman’s shoe and walking in them, but what I mean is, try putting yourself in their situation, whilst you sit there making fun of them, making them feel unwanted, think whether it hurts you or not, if it does, then it probably hurts them too, then maybe that could get you thinking, should I stop? It’s just a mile, if they can make it, so can you.