Personal Narrative: My Sister And Its Impact On My Life

#1) My younger sister has had a tremendous impact on my life, because even at just 20 years old she has overcome many obstacles that has made her more aware of feminist ideals and issues simply through her own experiences of these realities, despite the fact that she has never taken a women’s studies course, or any other college course. Her experiences and her willingness to share these, has educated me about these issues as well, and has also encouraged me to become involved in the field of women’s studies. When she was just 14 years old, my sister had a late term abortion because there was no way she was ready to have a child, financially, emotionally, or psychologically. During this time, she was also being severally bullied and harassed …show more content…
One of western patriarchy’s biggest fears are women who refuse to be passive, especially to men, and I believe it was this exact reason why received so much verbal and even physical aggression from others, as she defied her gender role as a self-identifying woman, whom society limits and oppresses as submissive, weak, and irrelevant. My sister demands visibility and others’ attention, while defying and denying a male dominated society that typically silences, makes invisible, and dismisses women’s voices, presence, and experiences. She does this especially when advocating for awareness and relevancy for experiences such as abortion rights, and body-shaming issues in western culture, as they pertain most directly to women’s rights as they do human rights. My sister defied traditional hegemony when she decided that she was not morally, innately, or socially obligated to have a child, especially at such a young age, despite traditional, western misogynistic beliefs that burden women as seemingly only useful for reproduction, for the benefit of contributing to the social order and labor force controlled by