i do - because do not even doubt my kickassery

[emchy]

do you call yourself a feminist?
why or why not.
no flame wars here
i am trying to understand

Comments

[postmaudlin.livejournal.com]

in the spirit that i bracket off the racism and classism of prior feminisms and want to start again with a new wave, yes.

i don't doubt that this term will change. and it should. because what i fight for doesn't stop at gender.

but am i (as i choose to define -- and maybe misdefine it) a feminist?

hell yeah.

this is what feminism looks like.

[cindymonkey.livejournal.com]

see thats my take on it too

i dont see feminism as a resolutely defined thing
it is for me, an individually defined thing

it is about owning a specific and entitled equal place in the world

it is about not accepting the idea that my cunt makes me less than

it is about not thinking that genetalia can define skill or intelligence

this is exactly
what a feminist looks like

[the-moonshiner.livejournal.com]

yes

'cause the alternative is lying

[cindymonkey.livejournal.com]

awesome

[mrfellow.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Methinks you have set yourself up for the distinct possibility of lots of lame-ass poetry. But I digress.

I grew up in a family that was about as matriarchal as you could get. I was politically active from a very young age, and most of my politics were, I suppose, pro-female--reproductive rights, affirmative action, that sort of thing.

The moment I realized that I was a feminist was when I was interviewing a woman for a paper on abortion and she began talking about forced sterilization. I had a sort of epiphany at that moment, when I realized that feminism wasn't about agendas, but rather about self-determination.

So I guess that's the short version of why I call myself a feminist.

[cindymonkey.livejournal.com]

hot
and so far so good - no lame poetry

[baronessvarla.livejournal.com]

Absolutely & always.

[cindymonkey.livejournal.com]

brilliant

yep

[demolitionwoman.livejournal.com]

i may not be the same knee-jerk reactionary, earnest young feminist i once was, but I'm definitely still a feminist. my feminism evolves and changes and grows as I do the same...i have a good friend who says he's an equalitist, because that seems to cover the bases of what he believes: all people are equal. which i get and which i also believe. but for me, feminist remains a relevant and important term as long as women are treated differently and in many cases, as second-class citizens.


there could be an entire book written but that's just what comes off the top of my head.

Re: yep

[beckastar.livejournal.com]

amen to all that. esp. the hothead pic :)

Re: yep

[cindymonkey.livejournal.com]

wahoo for lookin back at the knee jerk and knowing that we still have it in us even if the brain has indeed matured a bit

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

Feminist or pro-feminist depending on the audience.

[cindymonkey.livejournal.com]

perfect

[redshrike.livejournal.com]

yes. born & raised.

[cindymonkey.livejournal.com]

awesome
bring it on

[nietzsche.livejournal.com]

Si, because a man can't hit me without getting pounded down, not by my father, but by my fist.

[cindymonkey.livejournal.com]

exactly

[bionicfemme.livejournal.com]

Interesting question...I identify as Donna Haraway's definition of the cyborg feminist, but no longer as a radical feminist.

[cindymonkey.livejournal.com]

you're very cute in your specificity

[liquid-siftings.livejournal.com]

To the extent that any man can identify himself as a feminist, I consider myself a feminist. We live in a world and a culture where women do not have the same rights and opportunities as men do, and until that imbalance is righted, I think it is a moral imperative to work towards a world of equality.

[cindymonkey.livejournal.com]

brilliant answer

[honeydewboba.livejournal.com]

Yes, I call myself a feminist, for many reasons - because I feel scared of men when I'm walking around by myself a lot of times and I don't want it to be that way for me or for anyone else, because I've had a safe and legal abortion and was incredibly glad to have that choice, because women are not afforded the same rights and opportunities here or anywhere else...

[cindymonkey.livejournal.com]

bingo