Full Frontal Feminism-Chapter One You're a Hardcore Feminist

I like this reading Full Frontal Feminism-Chapter One You're a Hardcore Feminist because it points a few themes that are very real current issues for us women at this point in time. It shows that many women will not identify themselves as feminists, and will run away from this label, because from some reason the word feminist is associated with a women being ugly, fat, masculine, or being a man hater. But the author indicates that if you inquire into those women's beliefs with regard to issues such as birth control, equal pay for equal work and rape, you realize that those women are in fact feminists, but they do not acknowlegde it.

The author says that when she was a student a professor asked in class who was a feminist and she did not raise her hand. She was also a feminist in hiding. But she does not give us an insight into what happened in her life that she evolved and decided to come out of the closet. I wish she would have shared this personal experience with us readers.

I do like it when the author says something about, why do people want to kill feminism if it is already dead ? Well, to me the answer is clear, feminism is not dead, but it isn't as strong as it could be because women are afraid of being labeled . Women need to get the courage to say something equivalent to the African American Community's slogan in the 60's that "black is beautiful".

I am a feminist, isn't that great ?