This week’s readings helped me start to shape the waves of feminism and how they impacted one another over the course of history. Along with the additional articles and Wiki definitions, Prof. Waychoff provided for us, I continue to learn new terms such as cultural hegemony and transsexual separatist. While reading Guilty Pleasures by Jackson Katz, I immediately was reminded of this Tik Tok I had seen: A 18-year-old boy is portrayed walking into a strip club asking if he can go inside and the bouncer says no sorry you’re too young to come in. Then an 18-year-old girl walks in asking if she can work there and they say “Of course! Come in.” I thought this was a good comparison to the reading and plays a role in the way sexual exploitation shapes the experiences of women from a young age. I also enjoyed reading “What’s in a name?”, diving into the fixed notion that feminism has no singular definition. This ties heavily into our discussion of activism and non-binary persons where there is no one way to define how to stand up for people, and there is not just the male and female gender. As we saw in the reading by Tina Vasquez, people who define as transgender or even gay can choose to not support the groups that support them, which relates to how we perceive some groups as feminists and others not.
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Hello Olivia,
I also found this weeks readings to be quite helpful in understanding the waves of feminism and how the term feminism existed since before the term itself. Out of all of the readings, Jackson Katz was the most relevant to today because of how even as you say, the disparities between how girls and boys are treated, has become a meme due to its familiarity. This poses a discussion that I know to be prevalent if we want to see change for all. The way women are exploited, which begins at an extremely young age, is disconcerting and unjust, to say the least. As you mention, feminism does not in fact have a fixed or set definition as it is broad and rich in history.
Hi Olivia,
I hope that in later readings we get to learn more about Women’s Suffrage. During that protest, women suffered a lot and I remember learning a lot about it. Except, that we learned it in high school, so it was a lot more limited, now in college it won’t be.
Hi Olivia,
I enjoyed reading your post. I also found it very helpful to learn about the history of feminism and that it really does not have a definition.
Hi Olivia,
I like you mentioned the example of Tiktok. It shows the double standard for girls/women and boys/men in the same topic-which is another way to remind us that we are not receiving the equal right in this area yet. It is important to point out and remember because sometimes people would think it is 2022 so the world is much better but if you think about it deeply, women are still being treated differently.