Title: You Don’t Hate Feminism. You Just Don’t Understand It.
Headings: You Don’t Hate Feminism. You Just Don’t Understand It.
You Don’t Hate Feminism. You Just Don’t Understand It.
HERE WE GO AGAIN
Emily Shire
The Daily Beast
“Mel”

Content: While Perry was mocked for her admittedly space cadet-sounding response, she hit on a point that is often lost in the misperception of feminism: At its most core basic level, feminism is about equality between the sexes, not advancing one over the other. People do not realize you can be a feminist and pro-life. You can be a feminist and a stay-at-home mom. You can be a feminist and disagree with the birth control mandate of Obamacare. You can be a feminist and not advocate drinking your own menstrual blood ( Germaine Greer reference, y’all). Unabashed feminist author Catlin Moran lampooned women who did not identify as feminists in her book, How To Be a Woman. But in her criticism, she stressed that women who don’t identify as feminists don’t realize what feminism implies, nor all that feminism has secured for them: What do you think feminism IS, ladies? What part of ‘liberation for women’ is not for you?