Blog 2

I interviewed my mother for this blog assignment. Here are her answers to the questions.

Question #1: My experience with gender has been very good for the most part. I enjoy being a woman and appreciate doors being opened for me and being treated with respect.

Question #2: My history with feminism hasn't been a very good one. I grew up with a negative opinion of feminists because they were always making the news-but not good news. I think that feminism in the 19320's had its place but now has become something I would not to have anything to do with. I am very conservative and all the feminists I have heard of are much more liberal than I am.

Question #3: I think my definition of feminism would be the idea that women think that they are not treated fairly.

Question #4: Having children made me more aware of gender than anything else

Response to the Readings:

This chapter in the F-Word bothered me a little bit. I am a conservative Catholic and I disagreed with much of the content of this chapter. I do not think that sex should be something that women should be able to do when and with whomever they want. To me that is not empowerment, that is being promiscuous and disrespectful to yourself. I also whole heartedly disagree with abortion all together and the fact that the author was talking about abortion rights being taken away like it would be the end of the world kind of just amazed. I have such different views from the author but I did find the reading interesting and informative to some extent.
The McIntosh article was very interesting to me. I liked with the way the author compared male privilege to white privilege. I think it's really easy to forget just how "privileged" white people are. I like this article because I think it's important to understand the plights of everyone, not just women.