It's been a while. I've been busy. I was unemployed for a week in January, so I was busy on L.A. Noire. And then I worked 6 day weeks for a while. And then most recently I have spent most of my free time on the Mass Effect trilogy. Which I finished a month ago and I am still heart-broken.
But what I have been doing, is reading a lot about, and exploring more of, feminism. This year so far I've read books like The Equality Illusion, Fat is a Feminist Issue, and Honey Money.
What I've realised from my reading is that no wonder there's a stereotype of feminists. People don't seem to understand that feminism encompasses a lot, and that there are different schools of feminism thought. So they find it easier to use stereotypes. Everyone finds it easier to stereotype. One stereotype of feminists is that they are all man-hating lesbians. I am now single, and have been for 5 months today. I feel a bit like I had a lucky escape, but of course getting dumped has soured my relations with men. For a while they were all pathetic excuses for human beings, none of them worth my time and especially not worth my tears. The slight bitterness I held toward them - aka man-hating - did not automatically mean I was a lesbian. In fact I am back to my normal amount of indifference to men in terms of love or hate.
I guess what I'm taking from all that I've learned from experience and books this year is that now I feel less pressure to know what kind of feminist I am and what kind of feminism I advocate. Every equality campaign has different factions, and sometimes it takes time to work out the compromises between them.
It will be exciting to see where feminism goes, and where it takes me.
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