“Hmm, are women maybe human beings?” that single line from the waves of feminism discussion is enough for me because it encompasses what feminism is. The simple understanding that women are human and have just as much writing to live in liberty and have autonomy over themselves and their life. Historically woman have been made to seem as possessions so we need permission of our husbands to get our tubes tied or permission front from the state to have an abortion. Fighting for permission to vote as if we first need to seek council to have rights that this country claims everyone to have and in the article guilty pleasures we delve deeper into the male gaze of sexual desires and that raises some questions for me because I have spoken with people that are activist for sex work and one of their points is that they to not want the work demonized and the article says the culture influences how men view and treat women so I’m a bit confused, I guess in this part of the course would be how we would go about dismantling patriarchal views even within ourselves. The article waves of feminism brought up some important points to process and also noted that the making of those terms can also be divisive but important to understand that until we do the work to understand intersectionality in feminism that feminism will not mean liberation for all women.
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Hi Giselle, I agree. I think it’s ridiculous that we had to fight for the right to vote and that we are still fighting for the right to choose what we want to do with our bodies. All this time has passed, yet men continue to treat us as possessions. Men should not be included in a discussion about a woman’s body.