Tell me about your brand of feminism

[mutecornett]

I feel like I'm coming from a place where my gender doesn't matter very much either way. All three people in my family have an equal share in the housework. My mother's highly traditional (she wanted a boy, not me, and she thinks I should get married and do traditional work like cooking and housework) but my father's progressive enough for the both of them without even knowing how progressive he is--he encouraged my mother to work and supported her by raising me and cooking for me and caring for me when I was sick. You know those ideal households where the father does half the housework? Well, okay, right now, it's less because he's suffering from debilitating migraine headaches, but that's usually us. As far as I can tell, he doesn't know much about feminism, but I always felt like it didn't matter to him whether I was female or male, and he'd have treated me the same way if I'd been a boy. And I did whatever I liked, without really caring how feminine or masculine it was. I took ballet, I took fencing, I took karate, and he supported me in all of them. I built forts, I sewed dresses, I ran wild up and down our hill exploring and getting cut up, I played violin, I made a boat in our garden out of a cardboard box. My father didn't expect me to learn how to cook until he started worrying about my starving to death when the cafeteria closed (which it does sometimes, and this is a valid fear to have because then I sometimes pass out from hunger in my room).

So, tell me about your brand of feminism, because I want to know. What do you see as being wrong with the world, and what methods are you using to campaign to fix it? I am curious, because I don't know much about it outside of language ideologies.