Antione Malave Reading reflection #1

The reading of Feminist politics by bell hooks was interesting it gave you a view point of the “oppressed” which is the new buzz word that everyone throws around . I enjoyed the part where it stated that white woman basically hijacked a movement started by Black woman. Not the first time i have seen this but it was interesting to see someone actually saying it . An example of that now would be “black lives matter” which has now spawned everything from “blue lives matter”, “white lives matter” and the newly constructed “zombie lives matter”. I disagreed with the feminism is for everyone statement because i don’t feel that it is knowing its origins and witnessing the circus it has transformed into. The sense of female unification, triumph and inspiration has since been gone. It is not as provocative and powerful as it once was, whether purposefully or not it has been diminished down to a a funny pun on a coffee mug. I feel that is what happens with most movements. It starts off strong and fierce until what you stand for starts to be applied to everything that everything it doesn’t it quickly looses its meaning and its edge. Do you think that the woman that campaign and scream for feminism now would dare march with the woman who started it ?. I don’t think that they would. As far as my thought s go regarding the sex and gender 101, Why is it necessary for me to know what sex you are or what you identify yourself with instead of what kind of person you are first? I don’t agree with having to use or refer to someone by a list of pronouns that are getting longer by the day because you that what makes you comfortable . What band are you listening to ?, what video games do you like? those are the hard hitting questions i care about . I don’t care what your tastes are that’s your personal choice which really should be none of my business at all. What happened to privacy? Everyone is quick to yell out what gender they align themselves with faster then introducing themselves and telling me there name. How about we start with what’s your name?. and then we shall go from there, simple i just fixed it .

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