Blog 2: Interview

For this particular assignment I interviewed my mother. My mother's definition of feminism is women taking their place as not being second class to men and that women should not be afraid to speak up for their rights since we are all considered humans. My mother says that she was all for women going in the workforce and being able to work just as a man can, but she also believed that children weren't being taken care of as they should have been. She said it was called "latch key kids" because kids were having to take care of themselves because both of the parents were working. So she has mixed feelings about that issue. My mom's first conscious of gender is when she went to catholic schools and she realized that the nouns did everthing to please the priest and the nouns wouldn't say anything that they didn't like and never questioned him. It always seemed to her the priest were running things even though there was only 2 priest and about 10 nouns in the school. This particular experience made her realize that then nouns did not have a voice. My first conscious of gender would be in elementary when they boys would always pick the boys first and they girl last no matter what and I would always wonder why they thought they were better than us or something. It seemed like I was always proving that I could run just as fast as they could but it never made a difference.

Response to the readings:
Taking Sides
I was on the NO side and it was very hard for me to agree with a lot of the evidence and facts that he had. The researcher did not have a lot of information to prove his point it was more case studies and information then true facts. One thing that I do agree on with him is that women and men are biologically different in certain areas and men have a tendency to feel like they are better women. Other than that his argument was not that strong

F-Word (chap. 3 & 5)
Chapter three stresses on the fact of how birth control, sex education, and abortion are such huge issues in the feminism world. I believe that as women we should have the choice to make the decision to take birth control or have abortions since it is our body. The book expresses that women are increasingly ambivalent about abortion rights, but in the end the polls still show strong support for a woman's right to choose (pg 48).

Chapter five talks about the third wave and what exactly does it consist of and if we are really in another wave. The third wave is much different then the first and second wave because they had specific goals that they were tryin to reach in those waves. This wave I would say is all over they place since feminism is considered to be so many things and have many definitions behind it. But with this move the book even says that a large number of women are active in this wave (pg 89). I believe this is true more women have realized that they have a right to speak their minds, also I believe this generation of women are more independent than they were.