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A feminist, in my mind, was a woman at full potential.
George believes a feminist is more radical than a suffragist, wanting to not just attain equal rights for women but also challenge what it means to be a woman or a man.
I am a bad feminist. I would rather be a bad feminist than no feminist at all.
To be an intersectional feminist, one must acknowledge that there are layers of complexity in each individual’s life.
By redefining what it means to be a “woman,” feminism also redefines what it means to be a “man.”
Feminism isn’t about the specific, individual choices people make in how they look and feel. Feminism is about an individual’s ability to make choices about how they look and feel and take care of themselves.
The personal is political.
By recognizing someone else’s life and amplifying their voice, you are celebrating their humanity. And when you do that, you make it harder for the status quo to flourish.
Feminism is about advocating for equality for all women, not just people you’re comfortable with. It’s about standing for people who are other than you, and amplifying their voices, instead of standing against them or speaking for them. It’s about making the world better, and kinder. Your feminism can be more powerful than any generation’s has ever been, if it opens itself to everyone who needs it. You can take over the world with your empathy and inclusion. And I hope you will.
And so when we begin to connect with people as human beings, then it becomes really difficult to discriminate against them,
Women know that they are people. Even the most repressed woman has an innate sense of her own value. It’s men who sometimes need to learn that the women in their lives are people, deserving the same rights that they themselves enjoy.
Now somewhere in America there is a child holding a copy of The Catcher in the Rye and there is a child holding a gun. but only one of these things has been banned by their state government and it’s not the one that can rip through flesh
we were taught that just because something happens doesn’t mean you are to talk about it
working for equality and working for freedom weren’t separate missions; they were part of the same hard, necessary work that we all have to do.
her feminism doesn’t need to speak to everyone. It needs to speak to those young girls and women who might not otherwise see themselves represented in the mainstream media.
An inclusive feminism is a more effective feminism.
We’ll stop writing about rape when rapists stop sexually assaulting people.
