We Should All Be Feminists

That book open my mind about feminism

Me encanta como escribe esta mujer, la amo

I obviously agree with the many things said here but I don't like the way the author says that we must question the status quo and gender in itself but when it came to her own gender perception she did nothing to question it. She proceeds to say that everything about her femininity that she inherited from male gaze is "incidental" and that it's her choice to do so, which is so contradicting to say. You want to challenge the status quo but you don't want to challenge why it is that you internalize some rules and things about your own femininity that actually came from men themselves? I really hated that portion because it all falls on "choice feminism" aka "It's my choice so it's fine" without dwelling more into patriarchal standards of femininity that women go through and silently internalize, because that's exactly what it means to question the status quo. Sometimes our choice isn't actually our choice and that needs to be discussed. You don't live in a vacuum; as we live under patriarchal system we constantly internalize those rules and standards and they need to be examined, not swept under a rug.

I also didn't like how it ends on a note that all women and men equally have to do better, because the responsibility of "doing better" should fall more on men because they're the ones who have gotten us to this point. Obviously, there are many women who internalize misogyny but that's again the fault of men around them! And women already do enough to try and fight sexism and misogyny but they can't ever win because of stubborn men. Men have SO MUCH MORE to learn and unlearn.

I wholeheartedly agree with the rest but those two things kind of spoiled this for me and I just have to point it out

i still keep gathering and collecting all the information i could find about feminism. i’m interested in it, but try consuming it consciously.

this volume is the tiniest piece you could ever read about the topic. because it’s not the book itself, but rather the printed version of the ted-talk adichie gave at the conference a couple of years ago.

by presenting the summary of the main aspects of feminism, it enlightens the dark spots of the society we all live in and clearly answers the question of why we all should be feminists. i’ve read a couple of non-fiction works and articles on female discrimination, so i’d say that this book is more about the introduction to the topic.

and yet it’s absolutely worth reading!

Breve pero con ideas fuertes. Me encantó, hombres y mujeres deberíamos ser feministas.
"La definición que doy yo es que feminista es todo aquel hombre o mujer que dice: Sí, hay un problema con la situación de género hoy en día y tenemos que solucionarlo, tenemos que mejorar las cosas".

This is the most perfectly described written peice on feminism

Lectura obligatoria para todo el mundo. Simplemente espectacular.

Todos deberíamos leer este libro.

Tanta verdad junta.

Es un libro muy rápido, que te hace reflexionar sobre ciertas situaciones de la vida