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wow. someone has some anger to work through.
anyways....
i think that feminism is about shedding our labels.
i don't want to be treated like a man. i don't want to be treated like a woman. i just want to be treated like me.
i want my boyfriend to do nice shit for me, but not because i'm a woman and those are the things you have to do for a woman. i want him to do it because he loves me. he can hold the door for me, but i'll hold the door for him too.
i think a lot of girls today assume that we have equality, because our inequality is not so blatant as when our mothers were fighting it. we have indeed come a long way. but we still still are expected to behave in certain ways because of our sex.
last night, after the presidential debate, the station i was watching interviewed two women on their thoughts on the debate. and the guy interviewing said "we have an all ladies night tonight" or something like that. and i just couldn't help but think that this signified something about our place in the world. when two females are picked to talk politics it is rare enough that they comment on it. can you imagine someone doing that if they had two males on?
anyways, i thought for a long time that feminists were insane angry people who just yell about everything and can't take a joke. and some of them are. but a lot of them are just wanting a more equal playing ground; less stringent judgements surrounding sexuality, more job equality (less of a pay gap, etc.)...just really basic stuff. i think everyone would agree that they are important things to have, if people could just get past that feminist label.
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