WGST 1413 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Wgst, Shool
17 Feb 2017
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The worst thing you can call a girl is a girl. The worst thing you can guy a guy is a girl. Being a woman is the ultimate insult. Gives examples of questions that feminists might ask themselves about equality. Feminism is seen as super-anti: anti men, anti-sex, anti-sexism etc. Feminism allows you to see through the bullshit that would make you think there is something wrong with you, but also offers ways to make you feel good about yourself and to have self-respect. Ugly is po(cid:449)erful, that(cid:859)s (cid:449)hy it stays (cid:449)ith you. The easiest way to keep women-especially young women- away from feminism is to threaten them by calling them ugly. But things are fine the way they are! Feminism has not yet been achieved, although, some people argue this. Just because women have the right to vote does not mean that we ha(cid:448)e (cid:862)(cid:449)o(cid:374)(cid:863) the feminism battle.
