Gender Inequality

» Julie Burtinshaw - What they say and what they do

My 23-year-old daughter has a degree in poly sci from one of Canada's top universities. She owns her own car. She has a high paying corporate job. She lives in a beautiful downtown apartment. She is very opinionated. She votes in every election, usually for the party that supports childcare, universal health and women's issues. She feels equal to other humans.
She wears perfume and make-up and loves to dress up to got out.
She's a great skier.
She says she doesn't want kids, but she supports a foster child in Africa.
I think she is a feminist, but I have learned to never call her this -- it just makes her angry..."I'm a person," she says, "not a feminist."
Maybe we really have come a long way...

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» janhill - What they say and what they do

In response to What they say and what they do posted by jburtinshaw:

THis is exactly what I see in the university classrooms. My only question is: can we have 'feminists' who lack what second wavers think of as political awareness and an overt agenda for social change? Perhaps their overt awareness will grow as their life experiences brings upon them their inevitable challenges.

-- posted by janhill

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