CRJ #1

CRJ # 1
It’s crazy to think that only forty years ago women and men were treated so unequally. It is amazing to think how much equality women have gained in such a short amount of time. In Reading Two, “A Day Without Feminism,” it explains how things were for women in 1970. It’s so hard to believe that we had so few rights then. The way we live today has no comparison to how women used to live. Things like magazine articles, popular novels, and who can and can’t take certain classes never crossed my mind as something that women should have equality issues with. We live in a day where women have more rights then we ever did, but the reading also pointed out things that I never really thought about that still are very sexist. Things like whether your teacher is a male or female, whether or not a women can be in the religious front, and losing a spot on the National Honor Society because of a pregnancy are all issues that females still have to deal with today. Therefore, not only are feminists still out there, but also they need to be, due to the fact that there are still problems with our society today with equality for women.
The feminists these days are very different, or at least are seen very differently, than they were back when feminism started. There are many stereotypes and myths about feminists. One big stereotype is that if you are a feminist, you are a lesbian. This assumption is definitely not true at all. The reason this is a common idea in society is because of the idea that feminist also hate men. It is thought that lesbians, since they love women, hate men, which is not true at all. A feminist can be either a heterosexual or a homosexual. People need to get this stereotype out of their heads. A myth people often have of feminists is that they want to be like men. Instead, people should start thinking of feminists as women who want to be valued for whom they are. Though I am not sure if I am a feminist myself, I do believe that women should be valued the same as a man, and with each day that passes more and more efforts are taking place to make sure that it happens.