Analysis of my thoughts…

Put simply I didn’t even know what feminism was until I found Feministing… which is kind of sad. Sure I thought about all the same things believe a lot of the same things and what not as other feminists but I’d never heard the term feminist… I found Feministing completely by accident… my sister was using my youtube account on my computer and found Friday Feministing…. she then proceeded to add them to my subscriptions… so that she could find them again easily without searching… after a week or two of ignoring them simply because I was waiting for my sister to subscribe to them so I could boot them off I finally clicked on them out of morbid curiosity…


Boy am I happy I clicked on them… I finally found a name to what I could consider myself and found people who agreed with me in most areas of life… simple to say I can’t find that around where I live. The funny thing is though that the other day I asked my mother if she considered herself a feminist…. she said and I quote ” No thanks I can open my own car door.” I burst into laughter right after it came out of her mouth… I then proceeded to ask her if she even knew what a feminist was… she then gave me a small digest of the opposite of a feminist… I then happily corrected her…
You’ll all excuse me if I jump topic to topic here but I tend to run out of things to say about one topic and suddenly have an idea and hop to another topic altogether… I have plenty of things to share with everyone but really I would like to stick to one topic and share things one at a time so as to not get anyone confused… moving on though….
The first time I heard anything about feminist was in history class and that was just a word to describe something… ‘The feminist movement’ Feminism to me always meant that one was female or feminine in actions or features. So it made sense to me that it was a group of wemon fighting for rights being called the feminist movement… I also am not one to be interested in politics because frankly I find it all really boring and can’t pay attention. In highschool though I would always listen to everyone around me talk about politics and they would talk about it in ways that interested me…
So I was better able to listen and gleen information from everyone. So soon enough after ignoring the conversation I could cut in with a relatively educated speech or two. Simply put I was a force to be reckon with and could put almost everyone in the room in awe and silence while also maintaining an ongoing dialog with some of the others. Of course then the bell would ring and the next day we’d all be at it all over again. Also in this class (it was always the same on) we would have the strangest conversations… about anything and most times I’d be the only one on my side but by the end I’d have half the people gaping stupidly at me and utterly speechless….
I don’t know if this was because I’d said or done something stupid or if they just didn’t know what else to say to me because they knew I was right…
I’m beginning to ramble now, so I’ll bring this to a close… I’m now a semi-active feminist and very proud to be so.

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