The article "Fear of feminism" is a powerful one for me. Hogeland presents the notion that women have a lot to fear with openly expressing and defending feminist principles and joining the movement. I believe most of the things she says are true. We live in a society that is oppressive to those that want change the status quo. Hogeland interprets society as being anti-intellectual, and hierarchical. Again I agree, we have many especial interests in society, from capitalists like Hogeland sites to racists, traditionalists and simply members of society that don't want to make life more complicated. Neutralist as Hogeland describes. She encourages us to take on the consequences of our actions or inaction. This is powerful for me because I see everyone around me go about their business everyday with little mention to unfairness in the world and working on doing something about it. The whole world seems to want to stay in a safe world without consequences, and has resisted the need for change when presented by it everyday all over the world, from poverty to women's rights. Like Hogeland I agree that making a difference requires a sense of purpose, and I think the more neutral I stay the more disconnected I make myself from my purpose.
I want to ask my class what has real purpose for them and what do they need to do to integrate actions that bring them more inline with that purpose!
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Hello! I do like what you said about how many people are afraid to express their feelings just because their afraid of what the world will think and how the world will judge them. I feel women or young women specially wouldn't be as afraid if there were more people encouraging each other to have power to change the world and how they are treated.
ReplyDeleteHogeland does a wonderful job of inspiring her readers and motivating them to fight for gender equality. I think you also do that in this post. Great job at mentioning your personal connection of seeing gender inequality in your own life!
ReplyDeleteI really, really, really loved your post! We should all be looking for our sense of purpose in the world, many of us just don't know where to look or where to begin. I know that I was put here on the earth to make a difference, to help others and to make people happy. Our society is so worried about how others will view us if we speak up on certain topics, it's just women either, it's all sexes.
ReplyDeleteAgain, loved your post!
"The whole world seems to want to stay in a safe world without consequences, and has resisted the need for change when presented by it everyday all over the world, from poverty to women's rights." I love this sentence, its so powerful and gets you truly thinking about the situations we have at hand. You have stated your points very well and i really enjoyed reading this!
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