Especially in the last few months, there has been a lot of talk of women’s rights. I think this is interesting because essentially, the idea of woman is dead and nonexistent.

What does it mean to be a woman? I dare you to try and define womanhood to me.

Are you a woman if you were born a female? No, because men can undergo surgeries and dress like a woman and then they are a woman too.

Are you a woman if you’re a heterosexual female? No, there are plenty of lesbian females.

Are you a woman if you dress the part, wear pink, white or purple? Are you a woman if you wear skirts, dresses and heels? No, because there are women like Ellen Degeneres who are female but dress non-traditionally.

Are you a woman if you enjoy raising children or if you’re a mother? No, because not all women have children.

Are you a woman if you get your period, wear bra’s and enjoy The Bachelor? No, Caitlyn Jenner doesn’t get her period and I don’t enjoy The Bachelor.

If you have biology traditionally associated with womanhood, our culture is wary to assume you are a woman. I remember when a lot of women criticized President Donald Trump for previously using the phrase, “Grab her by the pussy” saying it was an infraction against women but not all women have pussy’s. So for the liberal left to make traditional female sex organs a women’s issue, they’ve ruled that sex organs are what makes a gender.This confused me because there are a lot of trans women that were born men and don’t have that biological elements traditionally associated with womanhood.

So what does being a woman mean and if we can’t define womanhood and you can’t see womanhood- why are so many people fighting for it?

Our culture is overwhelmingly confused with the what womanhood is. Culture fights for women’s rights but often criticizes people who describe anything as being feminine. Culture destroyed gender stereotyped toys, clothing, TV shows; the identity of being a girl is fading into the background of history for the sake of being politically correct. We are told that “running like a girl” is an insult, then we are told that “running like a girl” is a statement of empowerment and then we are told that “running like a girl” means nothing because “like a girl” is the same as “like a boy” and that no one should label you using gender. Genders are so confused and flip flopped, it’s hard to make sense of it all.

So what is being a woman mean?

According to culture, I can be as a woman until the moment I decide I want to be as a man. But, what is the point of going through changing genders when, according to society, there is no difference between the two? If I go from driving one 2009 blue Dodge Journey, get out of the driver’s seat and go behind the wheel of another 2009 blue Dodge Journey, is there a difference? What’s the point of even switching? Why should I go through the hassle of changing the label society puts on when men and women are interchangeable and equal so therefore, I can call myself a woman as I live as a traditional male. Biological males can behave as women and identify as men anyways. Technically, in our society, I could, with my skirt, long hair, heels, mascara painted eyelashes and higher voice, register for college as a boy, live on a boy dorm with a boy roommate and identify as a boy.

The labels don’t matter, the labels don’t exist, the identity doesn’t exist.

Identity? What does identity or identify mean? According to Merriam Webster, identify means, “to say who one is” or “to become identical to.”

But our culture says I can identify as a boy with all my traditionally female attire and attributes, which contradicts the definition of “identify." To identify means to remain identical, so I would have to conform (trigger word) to a traditional male lifestyle.

This kind of utter confusion and chaos is what happens when we break down standards and destroy social constructs (like gender). And no, white Christian men did not create the rules of gender. They actually started in the middle east a long time before Christianity was an established religion.

So why are women’s right so fundamentally important if being a woman can’t really be decided?

If “being a woman” could be the same as “being a man” why was Hillary Clinton’s race for the United States presidency so historical? Could not President Donald Trump wake up tomorrow and decide to identify as a female and be the first female president? And why is having the first female president a big deal? Men and women are the same, we can fluidly transition between both genders so having female representation really shouldn’t be a big deal.

I want to know what this current wave of feminism is fighting for because to me, I don’t see them specifically fighting for anything. Sometimes, it feels like the media exploits or uses the word ‘woman’ to benefit from it because it is trendy and is click bait. Because a headline reading “Female Indiana senator fired” causes more online stir than “Indiana senator fired”.

When you live in a society like this where being a woman isn’t actually a specific identity, women’s rights cannot exist because being a woman doesn’t exist.

So current, modern feminists, what are you going to choose: a standard of womanhood or the dissipation of women’s rights?

Prologue: Personally, I have a very specific idea of womanhood, gender and feminism. I am a feminist and I believe in the ideology of first wave feminism. I want to see a female president in my life time because I believe women can lead not because they are the same as men, but because their differences can be beneficial. I recognize the fact that there are differences between men and women. I believe in women’s rights because women and men are different and women need specific rights in order to have equal opportunities and the same thing goes for men.

And I like being a girl, it's hard, but being human is hard. I hate the disrespect, objectification and sometimes physical pain that comes from being female, but it's worth it to me. I will always take anything that ends with "like a girl" as a compliment because I was born female and so living like a female would mean I am fulfilling just one of the purposes I was born with.

I bring up these inconsistencies and pose these questions not to find clarity for myself, but specifically as a vehicle to get others thinking about this idea. These questions and this dialogue is strictly rhetorical.