CRJ #11

CRJ #11

After reading the last chapter and completing this class, my views on feminists are very different from when I first started. I now know that a feminist is a female who wants equal rights for all genders, men and women alike. This equality ranges from sexual equality to voting equality and equality in the work force to amount of salary. A profeminist man is a male who agrees with making equal rights for women and supports the laws and acts that are made to ensure that all genders are treated the same in every aspect of society. After studying more into these issues and getting more facts, I would label myself as a feminist, because I believe that everyone should be treated as an equal no matter what the gender.

I believe that being in this class has made an impact on me because it informed me more about problems in our society having to do with gender equality. Though in this country gender equality isn’t as big of an issue, there are still some problems that many people do not know about. Then there are other countries in which genders are certainly not treated the same at all, and it is obvious. It is sad to hear about some of the things that go on in other countries that I feel, if more people were educated about it, it could get fixed. Not only is being educated what is needed to change laws and countries, but it is also what is needed to change some peoples’ views of whether or not they are a feminist and what a feminist really is, like how it did with me.

The things I will take away from this are the bits of information in which I can spread the word as to what is actually happening in this world having to do with gender inequality. None of the topics relate to my major but I am certainly glad I took this class because I think the information that I learned is very valuable.