Feminist Perspective on Contemporary Political Events

Contemporary political events
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Introduction
The essay brings out diverse aspects of feminist in the contemporary world. The two
contemporary events that have been chosen for analysis from the feminist theory perspective
include the election of Donald Trump as the US President and the MeToo Movement. The views
of the female in most important primary events have been seen to widen in the steps in all over
the world. This generally based onideas which rooted from BC to date. In most contemporary
society, women are considered to be powerless in all the aspects within the community. This is
so in considerations of the number of women in the powerhouse that is the legislation in the
modern world. Therefore, based on theoretical approaches in the issues of the critical aspects like
power, majority of the women are given lower ranks in playing their parts. This is indicated by
most journals, which illustrates the plight of the women in the fight to retain position in the
society (Dean, 2010).Therefore, this generally brings out the feminist perspective on
international relations to seek or to understand initials gender relations dominances of
masculinities above femininities. Based on the idea of the existence about the comparison of the
women to men, feminist theorist has stipulated on the experiences of marginalizedas well as
oppressed peoples which constitutes women, in general, to defy and seek for the
recommendation revision on epistemological as well as the ontological basis of the fields.
Feminist theory in explanation of the disparity of the biases which rested within the muscularity,
feminist have interrogated gender biases inherent in rationalist means of understanding as well as
knowing the key aspects and concerns of international relations that is sovereignty, might,
security as well as international conflicts. However, most general social set-up of the
communities depicts disparities which rooted in the application of the policies which sometimes
aims at undermining women in all the dimensions. In consideration of the political states of

every state, especially in some of the advanced countries as they call them, it has been noted that
women mostly fails to clinch in the topmost ascension of power due to the feeling which many
has over them. This is true with references to Africans countries which has been dominated by
men in power, thus leaving women to handles house chores duties. This has made it possible for
women to agitate for their position, by forming some alliances, which generally classified as
feminist affiliation which was terms by the feminist theorist as a tool used in calling for equal
rights in gender. Feminist theory shared a praxis-oriented normative theory, precisely building
theory from practice in control of the political performances in which their political position
stands to diverge (Baer, 2016). One of the differences between the feminist stands to that of men
is clarity in the general location of power as well as philosophical means of knowledge of the
stands of gender. Based on the explanation above, it is clear that the aim of the essay will apply a
theoretical approach to power to identify the set of contemporary political events such as a
position of power within the states. Therefore, feminist theory will be used to illustrate the asset
of contemporary political events such as international relations (Hoffman & Graham, 2015).
Topic question: Could feminist theory clearly explain the reason behind Donald Trump’s
election and weakening of MeToo Movement?
Contemporary political events
The election of Donald Trump as the US President
When Donald Trump was elected as the President of the United States in 2016, the world woke
up to shock as he was not someone that people considered to be the president of the most
powerful nation in the world. The media and the expert analysts rightly outcast Trump prior to
the election but he turned out to be the one that people chose over the Democrat candidate

Hillary Clinton. His victory in the elections was seen by many as the current temperament of the
American citizens to choose a so-called male chauvinist, sexual harassment accuse to lead their
country. Most of the protests against Trump’s election as the president were based on his
regressive policies and inflammatory statements. Amongst many of the protests against him, the
Women Marches was also one. It was a worldwide march by women on 21 January 2017 in
protest against Trump’s inauguration as the US President. The march was conducted to protest
Trump’s anti-women remarks and offensive statements. This event was also significant for the
fact that a woman was denied her chance to the president’s chair against a man who has been
accused of innumerable accounts of sexual harassment.
The MeToo Movement
The MeToo Movement began during the end of 2017 in the US when the acclaimed Hollywood
filmmaker Harvey Weinstein was accused of systematic sexual harassments against numerous
women. The story first published in The New York Times when two journalists Jodi Kantor and
Megan Twohey spoke openly about the misdeeds of Weinstein. The movement quickly began to
spread across the globe and within one year, it became a huge global movement, one of the
biggest in recent decades. It was one of the biggest feminist movements in recent decades that
drew attention from all spheres of life. Film actor Alyssa Milano was the one who started the
hashtag MeToo (#MeToo) on Twitter based on the phrase coined by Tanaka Burke in 2006 to
those women who faced sexual harassment. However, the movement received divided support
from influential people worldwide. Another fact about the movement is that it was no longer
confined to the Hollywood or other film industries and reached the realms of politics and other
spaces. Many considered the movement shallow and that it did not really help the victims in
receiving justice. The movement also had women come out and speak up about their sexual