I'm a feminist in the sense that I believe women ought to have the same opportunities and chances in life as men. I believe each ought to choose what she wants to do in society and not merely be relegated to housewife/mother (unless that's what she wants and she and her partner can work it out somehow). I'm not deep enough to write reams on the subject, and I'm not as militant as women who think all white male babies should be killed, but yeah, I consider myself feministic.
I don't know that 20-year-old girls in this country can really appreciate the opportunities they take for granted. Hell, I'm just shy of 34 and I can't remember a time when I was discouraged from wanting to go to college and have a career, even though I grew up in a small, backwoods town. But I agree girls should know what's come before them and why their elder women try to drum into them that things weren't always this way and (given the drive to outlaw abortion again, as well as simple birth control) that they can quickly return to the way they were again.
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Date: 2006-08-06 04:40 am (UTC)I don't know that 20-year-old girls in this country can really appreciate the opportunities they take for granted. Hell, I'm just shy of 34 and I can't remember a time when I was discouraged from wanting to go to college and have a career, even though I grew up in a small, backwoods town. But I agree girls should know what's come before them and why their elder women try to drum into them that things weren't always this way and (given the drive to outlaw abortion again, as well as simple birth control) that they can quickly return to the way they were again.