1.
I define feminism as the ideology and actions
behind the idea of equality between men and women.
a.
I think Bell Hooks definition to feminism is a
very good one, its short and right to the point and I think it does a great job
at describing what feminism truly is.
b.
When comparing Bell Hooks definition to the
first one given by urban dictionary there is one word that sticks out to me in
the urban dictionary definition, “potential”.
By saying that feminism is that women should be treated as potential equals it means that you still
think they are not equals, therefore I don’t think this is a good definition of
feminism and Bell Hooks is still better.
2.
Based on this definition I would say I’m not a
feminist, but I’m not Not a feminist if that makes sense. I am not a feminist because I am not actively
doing anything to change how women are viewed. But I wouldn’t say I am fully
not a feminist because I agree with what feminists stand for and I wouldn’t stand
idly by while a woman was being discriminated against, I just don’t actively do
anything about it.
3.
A few popular examples of Patriarchy would be,
the fact that men still get paid more than women for the same job. Another is women being frown upon for
promiscuity where men are not, also women not being included for the military
draft or being ineligible for certain military units.
a.
These examples are maintained because apart from
the first example I gave, it seems like nothing is going to be done about
them. At least most companies are trying
to equalize the pay between men and women but for the other examples I don’t know
what is going to have to happen to fix them.
I feel the same way that frank was talking about in his blog. Hey came up with the some good points and examples of "patriarchy"
ReplyDeleteI also think that the definition is very good, I always had a generalized view of what feminism was, and feminists themselves. So far the book is shedding new light on that for me.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with you when you pointed out that in the definition the word potential is used. What's up with that? I find that to be pretty offensive and it really caught me off guard. I wonder what bell hooks would say? I see what you are saying when you say that you are NOT a feminist. It's a little difficult for a male to really decide on how we should and can stand up to feminism. We want to say that we are "Pro-Feminist" but not really sure how to define that statement.
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