Why I'm a Feminist
Return from wedding (which was lovely; when I get my hands on pictures, I'll share a few, because damn I looked hot in that dress) and am launched straight into finals. Le sob.
Anyway -- this is something I wrote about half a month ago on the Hetalia anon meme, to answer the following question: what has feminism done for you? And/or how much ( Read more... )
Anyway -- this is something I wrote about half a month ago on the Hetalia anon meme, to answer the following question: what has feminism done for you? And/or how much ( Read more... )
I think that's a good point. I understand the context fueling a lot of statements and philosophies that earlier generations of feminists ascribed to, like the one you quoted, and I understand the deep frustration and hurt many of these women experienced (or at least I recognize it -- I empathize even if I can't quite sympathize), but I really don't like the dichotomous model of gender underlying a lot of earlier arguments, so I can't fully ascribe to those theories. (If that makes sense.) The whole women VERSUS men thing -- and that gets tossed around a lot in our society -- makes me deeply uncomfortable because it suggests that gender is fixed and immutable, and that there are always certain qualities you have to ascribe to it, and it's such an essentialist view of what it means to be a man or what it means to be a woman, you know?
I have my moments of...I don't know if I'd call it sexism towards men, but anger towards men, yes. Especially after some of the things I've read. I try to resolve it by remembering not to treat men as a category, and realizing that a lot of oppression is systemic rather than personal. On the whole, though, I'm perfectly all right with men. I just don't particularly want to sleep with them, which is not the same thing as hating them.
(Finals are over next week-ish. Roughly. Most of my finals are papers and not exams, so I'm not one hundred percent certain when I'll be finished with those.)
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