Tuesday, April 25, 2017

Weekly Response 4/25--Kellen Gable

In Katha Pollitt's "Amber Waves of Blame" she brought up a quote by Naomi Wolf, "The stereotype of feminists as asexual, hirsute Amazons in Birkenstocks that has reigned on campus for the past two decades has been replaced by a breezy vision of hip, smart young women who will take a date to the right-on, woman-friendly sex shop Babeland." This quote really stuck out to me because a lot of people, especially women, that do not want to consider themselves as feminists always point to the stereotypes that they do not want to be. Of course these stereotypes are not necessarily correct (every stereotype starts with some truth that someone has experienced but not everyone experiences the same things) but that does not stop people from believing them. It also brings up the idea that people have to put others into stereotypes so they are not seen that way (even though being a feminist is not a bad thing) and so they can have a reason not to agree with feminism or consider themselves a feminist.

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