Conclusion

Taking theory has honselty opened my eyes to a lot of new things. I know it sounds cheesy but I love taking these theoirs and relating them to real life. I have caught myself many times sittting at dinner talking to my friend Max about the theories and discussing what we think about them. That probably now makes me a theory dork but I don't care. One of my favorite theories this semeister was Feminism. I was astonished to hear that contitutional women do not have the same rights as men. I thought that was so awful and it makes me accaulty want to study feminism further and perhaps become a femisnist myself. Another thing that I really enjoyed was the blog. I loved readings what other people thought about what we were learing in class. It really helped me to undetstand the theories better becasue I was able to go and look at different opinions about what they ment and from that was able to draw conclusions on what I take them to mean. Overall I thought the blog was a very useful took and should be used in futrue classes.

What Feminism is to me

First I would like to thank Tonya Krouse for her wonderful blog post. It was really a great introduction to what Femisim is. To be honset I have never really thought what what feminism is before. I can honselty say I never considered them to be big hairy lesbians but of course I have heard of the sterotypes before, but never really thought them to be true espically because my sister is a feminist and is niether a lesbian nor hairy. Something that I had to bring up in this blog that we talked about in class was that I learned that Women do NOT have the same constitutional rights as men and can legally be discrimated against. Meaning that legally a man and a woman can work the same job and the woman can legally get paid less. That was the thing that really opened my eyes to Feminsm. Krouse talks about "masclinist discourse" She talkes about how in our society the women are suppsed to be beautiful and nurturing. They can be seen as objects rather then as people. One of the examples she brought up that I was also thinking of was in Mantissa. In Mantissa the muse was this beautiful women that was only there to inspire the man who was an author. After gathering all this information I have come to some concluions asto what Feminsim is to be. To me it is equal rights for both men and women. It is also having a sence of who you are based on what you learned about yourseld and not what society has made you.