So What is Feminism Really?
• feminism
– the advocacy of women's rights on the grounds of political,
social, and economic equality to men. (Definition of “Feminism” found in the
Oxford Dictionnary)
Jacquie
Kennedy
Onassis
Laverne
Cox
Two Truths and a Lie
•
“Women can`t have as much rights
as men cause Christ wasn`t a
woman! Where did our Christ come
from? Where did our Christ come
from? From God and a woman!
Man had nothing to do with him.”
•
“Look at me! Look at my arm! I
have ploughed and planted, and
gathered into barns, and no man
could head me! And ain’t I a
woman?”
•
When you born with that extra limb
between your legs, everything that
comes out of your mouth is tainted
and words don’t mean nothing!
• “I feel that “man-hating” is an
honourable and viable political act,
that the oppressed have a right to
class hatred against the class that is
oppressing them.”
•
“What is sad for the women of my
generation is that they weren’t
supposed to work if they had
families. What were they going to
do when the children were grown –
watch the raindrops coming down
the window pane?”
•
“Once you can express yourself,
you can tell the world what you
want from it. . . All the changes in
the world, for good or evil, were
first brought about by words.”
• “I think transwomen, and trans
people in general, show people that
you can define what it means to be
man or woman on your own terms. A
lot of what feminism is about is
moving outside of the roles and
moving outside of the expectations of
who and what you’re supposed to be
to live a more authentic life.”
• “I am a self-made woman in every
sense of the word.”
• “The feminist movement taught
women to see themselves as victims
of an oppressive patriarchy… SelfImposed victim hood is not a recipe
for happiness.”