Feminism : Why Young Women Get The Willies

In conclusion, women have made a critical improvement to the circumstances in their lives through feminism. Primarily, men used to run everything as they considered themselves superior to women, but through feminism movements, women have been able to acquire equal rights to men, and are still striving to acquire more rights that men take for granted. Feminism is a philosophy that has helped women to acquire equal rights in the society. In addition, feminism is gaining equal opportunities and rights for both men and women, and allowing women to have control of their lives, and the women have achieved this. Feminism had a huge impact on the lives and roles of women in the society. Many women got sick of the strict home life that had been implicated on them by men. They got tired of staying at home and taking care of the family and domestic chores as their only work and decided enough is enough, things had to change. Women wanted equality between men and women in addition to equal opportunities in education, and employment opportunities. Feminism has played a great role on the everyday role of women in the

First, I want to start off by saying I definitely became very informed of what it was like for women prior to the Women’s Liberation Movement! I had no idea just how bad women had it back then. In addition, I am guilty of referring to most feminist as man haters and often wondered what all of the fuss was about, I guess I never took the time to do the research to see in fact what the true meaning and purpose of a feminist is. In the end my beliefs about feminism have in fact changed after reading the three articles “A Day without Feminism”, “Fear of Feminism and “Claiming an Education.” I believe these authors wanted to inform readers of what it was like for women before the Women’s Liberation Movement but to send the message stating although things are improving, we are not there yet and there is still a lot to be done!

A third misconception society expects is, only women can be feminist. As the world changes day by day many people are becoming feminist. Not only females but, men too. Whenever someone labels themselves as a feminist it doesn’t affect the movement, whether they’re a female or male. Instead, it spreads the word of what feminism really means. For example, my father is a feminist and has no shame of letting the whole world know. My father believes women should have the freedom to make their own choices and women should be able to live their lives how they want to with their educations, careers, bodies, etc. He believes women deserve to have equal pay for the equal amount of work done. My father is always thinking of ways to spread the positivity of feminism. Overall, he supports feminism and believes in equality along with freedom.

In the end, if it’s not society telling woman to be afraid of becoming a feminist, then it is their own gender warning them that it could damage the way a family is supposed to be. Feminism is not a word to cause conflict that what others may believe it does, it gives the opinion of women of how they would like to life in world with men. Equality is what a feminist woman is seeking for. There are some who would even go against the rules of judgment and try to make a change, so that there may me others who will stand proudly with them against this falsely ideas of feminism existing in the

The stereotypes and misunderstanding of the word “feminist” completely, contradict the definition of the word. Stereotypes such as “men haters” is completely different from people who fight for the equality of women in our society such as politically and economically. After researching on two feminist known as Margaret Sanger and Alice Walker, added more towards my knowledge on the history of feminist. Before this project I was not really aware of all the discrimination and what women had to go through to achieve equality. Based on the research I was able to identify many legacies left behind by these two women, who inspired me incredibly to be pursue my goals in life to one day become as successful as them.

Men and women are supposed to be equals. Women are supposed to share equal rights and opportunities with males, but sometimes women experience discrimination and face inequality. (It’s not only women; people of different genders/sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, and etc. face discrimination still to this day). Some look at this world as if it is a man’s world, and women were put on this Earth to help their husband, have kids, and raise their children. Well, women can do more than that! Not only men, women can be leaders and hold high positions too. Women can go into male dominated professions, and be successful. When feminism comes to mind the first thing I think of is the women suffrage movement. Then I think of the 19 amendment and how it gave women the right to vote (a right we should have had in the first place). Susan B. Anthony is a well-known feminist who believed that slavery should be and would be ended, and not only that she pushed for women to have the right to vote (the right they had been denied at the time). I also think of the early 20th century in America, and several things that happened. There was Margaret Sanger, who in the early 1900’s pushed for people to be educated about sex (sex education). Also, she pushed on the topic of contraceptives which at the beginning many people didn’t like the idea of at first. I also think of women like Coretta Scott King who not involved in the Civil Rights Movement, she was also a feminist. She also had a part in the

At the beginning of the semester when I was asked if I was a feminist, I thought the answer was pretty obvious. I didn’t consider myself a feminist, nor did I ever think I would ever become a feminist, but what I didn’t understand about feminism, was that I didn’t truly understand what it meant to be a feminist. After months of studying gender, I now have a better understanding of what it exactly means to be a feminist. In my opinion, a feminist is someone who wants equal rights for women and men, and what I mean by equal rights, is equality across the board, which includes the political landscape, religious landscape, the free market, the jobs market, ETC. Although that definition is not one that is widely accepted in the academic environment,

In his article, “Why Men Have a Problem with the Word ‘Feminism’”, author Martin Daubney explains how he doesn’t clearly like the word feminism. Though he believes in what the word stands for, equality and freedom of choice, irrespective of gender, sexuality or race, he is repulsed by the word feminists. This is because of how the word is perceived; the word feminism now tends to symbolize an aura of negativity. The reasons behind the negativity are the acts of the radical feminists. “All men are rapists”, that statement was supposedly said once but as is can’t be taken back it is all that the men tends to remember. What was supposed to be a positive message for the benefit of mankind became a word that gives people a personal bad attitude.

During these last thirteen weeks, I have discovered a lot about myself, not only as a student, but as a feminist. Before taking this class, I knew that I wanted to be a feminist. I believed that women should stand up and exercise their rights to be equal to men on every level. Be that as it may, I lacked the education required to develop my own sense of feminism--my feminist manifesto, if you will. When approaching the topic of feminism, every person needs to ask themselves a list of questions: Who am I? Who do I want to be? What has influenced me as a person? How can I help? These are the beckoning questions we, as developing and purposeful human beings, ask ourselves every day, and these are the questions that will lead each and every person

I began involving myself in feminism at age 12. It was eye-opening when I finally realized just how differently women and girls are treated. I actually recall hearing about Malala around this time and being so inspired by her story. I wanted to teach my friends and family about feminism, and I wanted to grow with them. What I found was that not everyone was so accepting of the changes feminism wanted to make. They were so use to conforming to gender roles and women being treated as the weaker sex. People thought I was overreacting; it was so frustrating that they were not willing to even hear me out because of my age and gender. That is

The first time I heard the word feminism, it came bitterly out of my dad’s mouth. It sounded like he almost hissed it. I was about seven at the time and didn’t know what it meant, but I obviously thought it was a bad thing since my dad became angry after overhearing a few women’s conversation on the topic. I remember asking my dad what it meant and he only said “something that you don’t need to know about.” Since I was young I trusted him and didn’t think anything of it until years later.

The concept of feminism something I believe has been misinterpreted by Joe public. Feminism is basically women saying that, they want to be treated the same and to be have equal rights, not to be looked at or judged in a different lens because of their gender. At a younger age my mom always told me to understand people, look at the situations from their perspective. Now concerning feminism, being told their roles, or having women scared to venture out of the “norm”, by the society and the media. This would make me mad, telling me what I can and cannot do because of how the majorities tradition or culture. I believe that no matter your gender you should be able to pursue whatever you want, without society looking down on you. The situation with

I found the text from the excerpt in “I’m Not A Feminist But…” intriguing as it opened my mind to how our current society views feminism. Throughout the entire text is declares reasons why individuals say they are not feminist, and I found these reasons to be true. When students were asked why people were so against being labeled a feminist the answers were that they didn’t want to be viewed as radical, experience social rejections and other issues (Weiss 29). After reading the reasons I can relate. As individuals in college we do not want to be an outcast, and in today’s society you are an outcast if you are feminist. It amazes me how scared people are to step outside the social norms and boundaries. We all want to fit in and are scared to

After reading Virginia Held's article "Feminist Transformations of Ethical Theory" there are three things that I did not know about feminist that I found interesting. The first thing that I read was how women are always so emotional as oppose to rational human beings. This can sometimes be true. Me being a woman, we go through so much in life. We are easily affected by many different situations than men are. Men think that crying is a sign of weakness for them if they were to cry. The second thing I saw was how women were being belittled about their experience. Some women are the bread winners for their family. Men has always been taught that they are the working ones and the women are supposed to stay at home to clean the house, take care

First, I became aware of the generic language. Words like "mankind", "brotherhood", and the overused pronoun "he" was supposed to describe all of humanity. IT was clear that they contained a masculine bias. Little girls grew up hearing those words literally and scaling down their self-image. I decided that even if I was not personally offended by these terms, inclusive language was a matter of justice. Language both reflects the way we think and informs what we think. That was stage one in my feminist journey.