The Role Of Feminism

I started this class having zero knowledge of what was to come. I did not know what the actual meaning of feminism was, or how it affected people. When surveyed if I was a feminist, I circled “not sure” because I was not going to say yes to a topic I knew little about, while I still believed in equality for women and men, I did not have the sufficient amount of information to circle “yes” or “no”. As of now, the knowledge I have accumulated has taught me that feminism is not just a noun, but also a theory that is presented in various forms of representations, such as in consumer culture and visuals. One form of consumer culture that really “hits home” with me and I feel strongly about is the media – magazines, advertisements, videos, and television …show more content…
One of the many things I have learned from this class was that both sexes can be oppressed. While women are still discretely discriminated, men are as well. Are gender binaries problematic? Yes, definitely! Social order coined gender and its split labels male and female, setting unachievable and unacceptable standards for each. Male equals masculinity. Female equals femininity. Why not the other way around? Why can’t men be emotional and women be buff? Why the binary construction of gender is problematic is because it poses questions like these, not just in the minds of adults, but also of children. I have heard so many stories from people that say …show more content…
Questioning often occurs during adolescence, the development stage when many young people struggle with issues of sexuality, gender and identity. This struggle can be especially difficult and prolonged for people exploring LGBT sexual orientations and gender identities,” (IDPH.) Many would argue, “Children have no care in the world for questioning their gender and what people think about them,” but those people are very wrong, you see. Because most parents were brought up with certain values and in cultures where man and woman are the only acceptable type of relationship there ever should be and not like now, where same-sex marriage has become legal and the LGBTQ community is more widely accepted, they fail to teach their children that some kids have two mommies and some kids have two daddies. Not only will this have a negative side effect in the future of the child, but also in the parents’, when their child happens to grow up gay and never squeak a word about it to them until they are much older, that is when parents say either A, “I raised an unholy child,” or B “I