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Do you call yourself a feminist?

International Women's Day got me thinking about feminism and how few people in our generation seem to identify themselves as feminists.

You can read my thoughts here.

I'm curious to hear what other 20-somethings think.

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Permalink Reply by OurLittleAshley on March 11, 2009 at 5:44pm

I think our president might be a feminist. :)

Permalink Reply by Elysa on March 11, 2009 at 8:13pm

I'm going to SXSW an interactive conference this weekend in Austin & I thought you guys would appreciate the topic of this session:

Everything I Needed to Know About the Web I Learned from Feminism
This year we might top it and revive/re-frame feminism at the same time. Feminism teaches "the personal is political" and the web shows that the personal is now public. Christmas newsletters and recipes are the social media of their time, and women are the key social nodes of our culture. In her comic and though-provoking style, Heather Gold brings together amazingly smart women and the people f/k/audience to discuss what makes social networks strong and predict where they're heading next online.

Permalink Reply by Samantha Grace on March 13, 2009 at 9:59am

Heck yes I consider myself a feminist! I think the reason that word has had a bad connotation is that people have allowed it to be demonized by the media and other forces. Being a feminist is a pure form of wanting equality.

Permalink Reply by Oats on March 15, 2009 at 9:21pm

You clearly haven't met my former boss....

Permalink Reply by Harper and Beatrix on March 15, 2009 at 6:28pm

honestly, i like to think i'm capable of doing anything a boy can do (within anatomical reason), but i never really want to change a tire or cut grass. i almost never offer to pay on first (or second) dates. i hate it when you tell me i can't do something, but that doesn't mean i won't coerce some boy into moving heavy things that need to be moved.

i guess i'm a fair-weather feminist.

~beatrix

Permalink Reply by Sarah on March 15, 2009 at 9:03pm

That doesn't make you a fair-weather feminist at all! As long as you're willing to stand up for a woman's right to change tires etc., you can stay home and bake cupcakes dressed in a frilly apron all day long and it won't make you less of a feminist.

Permalink Reply by Harper and Beatrix on March 15, 2009 at 10:51pm

ok. i'll embrace it. i'm a feminist. a feminine feminist.

~b

Permalink Reply by Kendall on March 16, 2009 at 9:11am

That depends on your definition of a feminist.

Is equality gained when all believe that men and women should be of equal status or just the vast majority?

Funny thing about human beings is that we can hide our true beliefs and intents behind a smile. A person can say they believe a woman should be treated with just as much respect as a man yet in their heart believe something entirely different. But how long will it take for people to truly believe this?

"Is it going to come tomorrow? Is it going to come next week? In a hundred years? Never? No, the time for justice, the time for freedom, and the time for equality is always, is always right now!" Samantha Booke, The Great Debaters

Permalink Reply by Mila G. on March 16, 2009 at 1:08pm

I don't think recognizing inequalities is the same as complaining about them. I think that being a feminist is being self-aware. I hate when people see it as negative. I wish more people would proudly consider themselves feminists.

Permalink Reply by L.L. on March 22, 2009 at 12:18pm

You've hit the nail on the head here!

Permalink Reply by Oats on March 22, 2009 at 6:27pm

I like the last line: Men are not "standard" and women are not the "deviation".

Insert spiel about "erratic behavior" being synonymous with "female" in the workplace. Insert argument about standardization and holding people to irrational standards. Insert argument about how the world sucks and how we shouldn't give up and that some magical day things will change. Hopefully.

Permalink Reply by Gamer Grrlz on March 21, 2009 at 9:21pm

I proudly call myself a feminist, despite the negative connotation the word has now. We can take it back! I try to stand out as a true example of what a feminist is, someone for equal rights for the sexes straight across the board, without any hatred towards men or any gender in particular. They're just trying to undermine us. Don't let them.

That's how sexist this world really is, its seen as NEGATIVE and bitchy to stand up for the rights of a beleaguered minority....