Week 2, Doing Gender

The article I'm going to talk about here is the one titled, "Your a Hardcore Feminist, I Swear." This is for several reasons. First of all I have a few questions about it I would like to get out in class. Secondly, I thought it brought up a ton of good points. And thirdly, (probably most importantly) it was the first article I could completely read, understand ever word, and stay focused!! With that being said, let's dive in.

The main point the author is trying to make here is that a Feminist woman should not be afraid to consider herself a feminist. She shouldn't fear the misconceptions surrounding the word, nor fear the way people will treat you if you consider yourself a feminist. There are a few questions this reading really raised in my mind. First of all, when it talked about the lady who wrote an editorial, or commented on an article or whatever she did, it basically said that woman was wrong. However, I would almost tend to disagree with the author in this area. I can think that this lady would be very adimant about woman's rights and the well-being of women in general. However, I get the feeling that the author was being negative in her comments towards the woman and was doubting whether she really believed in what the author believes. I think that all the lady was really trying to say was that it is her choice, as a woman, to dress how society chooses to want her to dress the same way it is the choice of some woman to not shave and to dress however they feel.

Another interesting point that maybe I would like to bring up in class is when she was talking about equal pay, and all these equalities woman must still fight for in order to achieve equality. First of all, she is still sort of missing the point of some of what our discussion got to in class. She is still basing herself off of what a man has. She wants to be equal to men. Why is it that everything we talk about is being compared to men. Isn't there anything the woman would just want to be like a woman for? Also, and just a side note of course, after all these things woman want/have gotten equality in, do they want equality when it comes to the Armed Forces? As in, if there was a draft, would woman still want to be equal to men in every aspect? Just a question.