Interesting stuff, I will put this on my reading list. I definitely do agree that feminism has apparently come to mean 'like a man' in a lot of circles. People continue to have this annoying compulsion to pigeon-hole and label everyone, I can't say I really understand what the term 'feminist' is supposed to mean in modern contexts, as its popular use has muddied what it used to mean
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I've always hated it when I see in television women going after the mistress of their husbands. She isn't the one who betrayed you, the asshole sleeping with her is. It always pissed me off because the implication is that it isn't the guy's fault, he couldn't help but give in to temptation. Argh!
I completely agree with your version of feminist. I do many things that are considered "male", probably more so than my contemporaries, but I also like things that are considered "female" as well. The core of it, for me, is that I've always considered myself a woman and that's all that matters and no one is going to tell me I should or shouldn't do something based on my gender and that's that.
I was in a conversation with a good friend (male) yesterday that reminded me of you. He wants to get into writing and his essays are philosophical, meaning of life ponderings. We were talking about his writing on the origin of man and woman and he was posing the "chicken or the egg" question against the context of Genesis in the Bible. He said woman came from man (talking about the Bible story wherein God took a rib from Adam while he slept) and he said the word woman is a wombed-man (ie woman). When I heard that I thought about you posting about women being defined by their wombs and I thought "Oh Lord, Tyr would be all *over* you right now." But then he surprised me. He said if you believe the scripture, and that woman was created from man, woman was created at the same time as man and that she dwelt within him. So man's origin and woman's origin happened at the same time, and from the same material, making them perfect equals. However, when God extracted woman from man, He gave her the womb- an extra bit of anatomy men do
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You do your job and if you're good at your job it shouldn't matter if you wear high heels or flats (not to the men in the office or the women).
That, unfortunately, is the idea. Very few workplaces/schools, coworkers/strangers, live up to it. =\
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I completely agree with your version of feminist. I do many things that are considered "male", probably more so than my contemporaries, but I also like things that are considered "female" as well. The core of it, for me, is that I've always considered myself a woman and that's all that matters and no one is going to tell me I should or shouldn't do something based on my gender and that's that.
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