That's a cool article, thanks for the link. And...well, I'll repeat this...
I'm perfectly happy just to be me though - if other people want to stick the feminist badge on me, then so be it. I won't do anything but ignore it.
It's not that I have an issue with labels, including the feminist one. I just don't see how it's relevant to me. It means nothing to me, it's a non-issue in my life. So when someone says to me, 'You Are A Feminist,' I just shrug and say 'whatever.'
I have opinions on most things. Some things I know more about than others, but I'll always admit it if I don't know something. For example, before this debate came up, I never knew that simply believing women to be equal to men made me a feminist. And I still don't really believe that it does - because that's just common sense. Why does there have to be a name for something that just is? It's like trying to take the feeling you get when you look at someone you love and then put a name to it. Some things just are and this is one of them.
Basically, it boils down to - I don't think of myself as a feminist, which is why I say 'no' when someone asks me if I am one. But if having common sense makes me part of a group somehow, then OK. I can live with that. It won't affect a thing about me so I just see it as pointless. Does that make sense?
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Date: 2006-05-20 12:12 am (UTC)I'm perfectly happy just to be me though - if other people want to stick the feminist badge on me, then so be it. I won't do anything but ignore it.
It's not that I have an issue with labels, including the feminist one. I just don't see how it's relevant to me. It means nothing to me, it's a non-issue in my life. So when someone says to me, 'You Are A Feminist,' I just shrug and say 'whatever.'
I have opinions on most things. Some things I know more about than others, but I'll always admit it if I don't know something. For example, before this debate came up, I never knew that simply believing women to be equal to men made me a feminist. And I still don't really believe that it does - because that's just common sense. Why does there have to be a name for something that just is? It's like trying to take the feeling you get when you look at someone you love and then put a name to it. Some things just are and this is one of them.
Basically, it boils down to - I don't think of myself as a feminist, which is why I say 'no' when someone asks me if I am one. But if having common sense makes me part of a group somehow, then OK. I can live with that. It won't affect a thing about me so I just see it as pointless. Does that make sense?