About two months ago, I joined a feminist book club in my city. A friend of a friend came up with the idea and introduced it to an open mic I attended, and I thought it would be a great way to meet other feminists, as well as to further explore feminism.

The first book was Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique. I was crunching on the thesis, so I ( Read more... )

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"I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly...Men will ever rise or fall to the level of the other sex...Let them not imagine that they know aught of the delights which intercourse with the other sex can give, until ( Read more... )

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So here I go questioning myself again. Sometimes I feel like my passion is too much for people around me to handle, because no one around me shares those passions, at least not to the degree that I do. Like my feminism, for example. Or my disgust of wasteful spending. Or wasting food. Or immigrant rights. For many of my friends, I can be too ( Read more... )

Radical
*You scored 83% Gender-Abolitionist, 0% Sexually Liberal, and 60 % Socialist

You are the Radical Feminist! You believe that virtually every aspect of society needs to be restructured in order to destroy the oppression of women. You have very radical socialist politics and a very radical perception of gender. You feel that all gender ( Read more... )

WARNING: THE CONTENT OF THIS ENTRY IS RATED PG-13 FOR SEXUAL REFERENCES.Lately I've been having dreams about marriage. Okay, more like nightmares.(Most of you probably know that I don't plan on getting married and following the traditional female role in society partly due to my feminism and cynicism ( Read more... )