This is my random thoughts and opinions on everything for women's studies and I suppose other random things.
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
hey I would marry a feminist...male form
The article "Who Wants to Marry a Feminist" was rather empowering. The struggles she went through are things that make sense for a stereotypical mind set of feminist woman, but how she moves past it all is amazing. It is rather annoying that a reader of her articles was angry that she was marrying, if you are for woman power it doesn't make sense to be against marriage because that is one more place that we have worked so hard to gain our rights. It is nice that she managed to find a guy who is willing to accept her views, and not be a prick but actually pitch in around the house. I can relate a lot to her things her family said, like her grandfather being worried about the food. My family asks all the time who is cleaning or cooking and at times will tsk at me when I say it is my boyfriend. The tax person was another annoying factor of this. If it had happened to me I would have told them that I am not just a spouse, she is the one making more money, and should have equal rights on the paper. Her view on marriage is something that everyone in my opinion should feel, its about the emotions and companionship, well yea sex too, but its not because thats what was expected or whats the norm, which was nice to finally see one of the authors be positive about marriage. Over all though I liked this article because she seemed happy about her choices and life even though there are people who don't understand.
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I really believe that it is finding the right guy and trusting in him will not bring such hard feelings towards all men. But if trusting in the wrong guy who then turns around and stabs your heart... that is when it becomes too hard to deal with the thought of marriage. Because of being scared and having anger due to past experiences.
ReplyDeleteI would have reacted a similar way to the tax situation. I would have hurt me, being automatically labled as just "the spouse". It makes it sound like she was not contributing at all, which is the opposite of the actual case. It also makes it seem like her existance is not as important as her husband's.
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