Procrastination is deleting 124 ring tone and new loan comments from your blog site when you could be getting something done... or just showering.
In a class today, someone asked me and Mendon, who was wearing his feminist shirt, what we call a masculinist.. or a guy that... yeah. And my initial reaction was "a bigot," but I corrected myself and said, "a feminist. Men advocating for the equality of men and women are feminists."
We, of course, had to go on to dispel the man-hater myths. Which reminds me of my Human Sexuality course. In that class, I learned vagina myths like: the vagina has teeth and will attack. Has anyone else ever heard of something so ridiculous?
This is such a crazy world.
I loved my Human Sexuality course (the psychology thereof).
I didn't hear that vagina myth as a myth so much as a joke.
Which reminds me of how I was a bit disappointed in the Vagina Monologues. I mean, it's title is certainly honest, but I think it could have delved so much more into the realm of discussing women's rights as human beings - beyond our vaginas. It got so much good press and was raved about all over, I guess it just had me expecting more depth.
I had the same reaction to Vagina Monologues. I guess that, as important as that piece of anatomy is to who I am, I feel like so much more.
That's interesting; you've both put words to my disappointment with the piece. I walked away saying, "what's the point?" Oh well. I wonder as well, that, if women who can't talk about their vaginas were able to better address the subject after such a liberal book (Was this the point?). Some, maybe; others, I wonder. . .
"I would have been the first person to burn my bra but it would have taken the fire department three days to put it out!"
- Dolly Parton
yes, I know, no one actually burned their bra.
Ya' learn something new everyday:
The infamous demonstration that gave birth to this rumor was the 1968 protest of the Miss America contest. Bras, girdles, nylons and other articles of constricting clothing were tossed in a trash can. (and photographed)
What!? No bras actually burned?!?! How disappointing! I'm so bummed.
Wow. I thought that that myth was dispelled. Hm. I think it has been a favorite of many because of the violence that is ascribes to feminists.
I have a good story about college and feminism.
As you know, my friends Erin and Josh came to visit on Monday. They told me that, while driving down, they passed a porn shop, which spurred the conversation, "What would Hayley do if we took her into a porn shop?"
"She'd come out a feminist, and start talking about women's rights activism and such." They promptly arrived here to find me wearing my new feminism shirt (this is the same one that Mendon and Kristen have, except mine is green). So, they asked me about my views on feminism, and after our conversation they decided that I was the "good kind" of feminist (ie, not man-hating or having misconstrued definitions of the word equality). Of course they know me well enough to already know that, but their purpose in asking me questions was for me to verbalize exactly what my views are. (Or at least, that's what I got out of the conversation.)
I laugh. ;-) You'd come out a feminist? You'd go in a feminist! At least the Haley I know would.