Check out this really cool project a feminist artist did in Los Angeles. I was thinking that I should probably try and do something like this in my hometown. I feel like a huge part of teaching people about feminism is by making it readily available through art, movies, music... Everything we can! It's such an important thing to learn about-- if for no better reason than to know what exactly it is you stand against. I'm tired of hearing arguments against feminism that consist solely of statements similar to "not all men" or "feminazis just think they're better than men" or even "your sexist against men". It's about so much more-- it's about a balance of power. It's about overcoming centuries of oppression. It's about equality. I have heard many, many times that if feminism's goal were to create equality, then why is it called feminism? Why isn't it called humanism? After a very long time pondering this, I finally realized that in order to create equality, rights for women need to be raised in order to match the rights of men. Increasing rights for both men and women at the same time, as humanism strives to, would be amazing of course, but would not achieve the end goal of equality.
Anyways. I've been giving this sort of thing a lot of thought and wanted to share a glimpse of my thinking. As an afterthought- there's this rad thing called Third-Wave-Feminism which has an emphasis on equality of races, genders, sexual orientation, and identification (not to mention loads of other neato and equally important things that I'm having trouble remembering at the moment...) Give it a google or something sometime if you're feeling curious. Or bored, I suppose. Learning is always the easiest way to combat boredom.
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