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[violino126]

I don't hate women, and I don't hate feminism, but I hate it when people shove it down my throat.  They think that since I am a woman, that I must absolutely love feminist literature. They think that since I am a woman I must love what women do over men.  They assume that I must want to do research on all things that women do and have succeeded in. When in fact, I don't really care who did what...in all reality. Does it matter what gender the person was to do what they did? Isn't it more important that they did it and not the fact that they are of a specific gender.  Is it an excuse or a better thing because of a person's gender?  In this day in age, women aren't all they can be, but they are much better off than they were, and I know that feminists helped with that; but do I really have to worship everything that they did?  Do I have to love every novel they wrote, every essay, do I have to just think it is the cat's meow for every work of art?  Or, can I judge a thing on it's merit and worth.  If I do not love Jane Austin, I am not being an anti-feminist, I just don't like her novels.  I appreciate what she did for women in literature, but her novels drive me up the wall.  For women and men to be truly equal, their work should should be judged the same, there shouldn't be a gender bias (even if it is the women's favor).

I don't see myself as a woman, I see myself as a person, and I do not appreciated your gender assumptions about me!!!!!