a corgi-dorable girl (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} athenagrace) wrote in ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} feminist,@ 2005-04-19 16:18:00 |
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Curious . . .
All right, I'm a bit new, and maybe this question pops up, like, daily, but I'm still interested in a varried perspective.
How do YOU, personally, define your own stance on feminism?
For me, it's about choice. Well, of course it's about choice, everyone screams. No, I mean all choices. I, as a woman, can choose between being pro-life or pro-choice. I can choose to take my husband's name or not, get married or not, marry a man or a woman. Hell, as destestable as it may be, I should have the choice to accept alternate lifestyles or be the first to yell dirty words at a couple of girls walking hands. I should be able to study molecular physics . . . or advanced homemaking . . . or advanced automotives.
Sometimes it irritates me when so-called feminists jump on someone who is making a choice that doesn't fit into their narrow ideal of a feminist. As if all feminists must be male-bashing (if not lesbian), leg hair growing, women studies majoring nazi's for the cause. If you choose to be that way, fine, great, that's super. And if you like to wax your eyebrows cause it makes you feel pretty, cool. And even if you shave your legs cause you want to appeal to a man, that's fine for me. Just let it all be YOUR choice.
And because I'm a little nervous that someone is going to doubt my "feminist" credentials, let me add that I have an undergraduate degree in science, took feminist literature classes, went to an all female college for christsakes, and there is a picture hanging up on the wall of my house with my husband in a kilt and me in pants, which we photoshopped to say "Who wears the pants in the family."
For those of you who are open minded, those "credentials" may seem silly or trite, but for those who need the credentials, I hope those are enough.
All right, I'm a bit new, and maybe this question pops up, like, daily, but I'm still interested in a varried perspective.
How do YOU, personally, define your own stance on feminism?
For me, it's about choice. Well, of course it's about choice, everyone screams. No, I mean all choices. I, as a woman, can choose between being pro-life or pro-choice. I can choose to take my husband's name or not, get married or not, marry a man or a woman. Hell, as destestable as it may be, I should have the choice to accept alternate lifestyles or be the first to yell dirty words at a couple of girls walking hands. I should be able to study molecular physics . . . or advanced homemaking . . . or advanced automotives.
Sometimes it irritates me when so-called feminists jump on someone who is making a choice that doesn't fit into their narrow ideal of a feminist. As if all feminists must be male-bashing (if not lesbian), leg hair growing, women studies majoring nazi's for the cause. If you choose to be that way, fine, great, that's super. And if you like to wax your eyebrows cause it makes you feel pretty, cool. And even if you shave your legs cause you want to appeal to a man, that's fine for me. Just let it all be YOUR choice.
And because I'm a little nervous that someone is going to doubt my "feminist" credentials, let me add that I have an undergraduate degree in science, took feminist literature classes, went to an all female college for christsakes, and there is a picture hanging up on the wall of my house with my husband in a kilt and me in pants, which we photoshopped to say "Who wears the pants in the family."
For those of you who are open minded, those "credentials" may seem silly or trite, but for those who need the credentials, I hope those are enough.
