Feminism (2)
strixvanallen on March 8, 2015
YEAR 8 BEGINS!
I wouldn't start Year 8 right now, but I wanted to post something for the International Women's day.
Not everyone understands what feminism is about. Sometimes, not even some feminists. Feminism is not supposed to be another dictatorship, telling people what they should do or not. It's an outlook to life. You don't need to follow a string of rules to be a feminist. You just have to remember that men and women are human beings, that we have to know and respect. That when you will make something to women and want to know if they will like, you should ask women to help. And not one or two women, but a bunch of them, since women are very different one from another (just like men are very different one from another).
Feminism is about not answering questions with “because it's a men's thing” or “because it's a women's thing”. It's about not degrading people because theur life choices don't fit what most people of their sex usually do. It's about not opressing women (and men!) until they fit in a pattern of what it means to be a woman (or a man).
In this Women's Day, let's remember that women don't exist solely to give birth to a man or to be loved by a man. In this day, let's remember that women also achieve things for themselves, they deserve praise for their achievements and can change the world for the better.
And of course, women can also be big nerds.
Happy Women's Day!
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strixvanallen at 8:53AM, March 9, 2015
Like I said, I do believe that the boys were trying to compliment me. I don't hold anything against the boys themselves. It's not their fault that they touched a sore spot on me. This happens all the time, people are too complex for us to assume that we can walk our whole life without stepping on some toes. Which hurts me is that pop culture in general never accounts for the fact that people wearing glasses may, just, you know, really enjoy this. And that getting things off a person without her permission while telling that this makes her uglier is hardly ever okay. It's the culture that hurts me, not the people that embrace it without even noticing it.
Darius Drake at 1:18AM, March 9, 2015
I wish to bring up something that you mentioned in a post on your DA related to this strip, but that in-and-of-itself isn't related to this strip. Namely, my take on girls wearing glasses (I'm male, by the way). I, typically, unlike the two men you mentioned, find women wearing glasses to be more attractive than those not. They make noses look smaller, hide things like eye-corner wrinkles, and, honestly, give a point of focus which isn't a person's "least attactive feature". However, I also understand where those two were coming from. The same movies you complained about almost saying "glasses = ugly" can also be interpreted as saying "Women wearing glasses are insecure about their looks and hiding behind glasses". It's possible that they were thinking that was the case with you. Or that could be overthinking it, and they were trying out what they didn't realise is a back-handed compliment that works in movies. Either or.