We Should All Be Feminists
- Thania Aguilarhas quoted7 years ago
Culture does not make people. People make culture. If it is true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, then we can and must make it our culture. - Rhodah Naserianhas quoted5 years ago
When women say ‘I did it for peace in my marriage,’ it is usually because they have given up a job, a career goal, a dream - Danielhas quoted6 years ago
Gender as it functions today is a grave injustice. I am angry. We should all be angry - Isahara R. Juárez Cadenahas quoted6 years ago
Some people will say a woman is subordinate to men because it’s our culture. But culture is constantly changing. - Mega Dinihas quoted7 years ago
My own definition of a feminist is a man or a woman who says, ‘Yes, there’s a problem with gender as it is today and we must fix it, we must do better.’ - Diego Alexander Granados Jaimeshas quotedlast year
The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are. - Mariahas quotedlast year
Some people will say, ‘Oh, but women have the real power: bottom power.’ (This is a Nigerian expression for a woman who uses her sexuality to get things from men.The term "bottom power" gives me such an ick. I hate how women are always "on the bottom" no matter what they do in the bedroom. I hate how we classify who is up or down in an act that should be about being on equal, consenting terms. No wonder males rape when they're taught since birth that they're "on top" no matter what
- Mariahas quotedlast yearPoor men still have the privileges of being men, even if they do not have the privileges of being wealthy.
- Mariahas quotedlast yearThat many men do not actively think about gender or notice gender. That many men say, like my friend Louis did, that things might have been bad in the past but everything is fine now. And that many men do nothing to change it.
- Mariahas quotedlast yearSome men feel threatened by the idea of feminism. This comes, I think, from the insecurity triggered by how boys are brought up, how their sense of self-worth is diminished if they are not ‘naturally’ in charge as men.
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