Black Panther, y’all. Holy wow. HOLY WOW.
Potential spoilers below the Read More, I am too hyped to manage censoring myself.
The Last Jedi
Yesterday afternoon I finally saw The Last Jedi. Y’all. Y’all.
Spoilers for Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi below the Read More.
I don’t think that word means what you think it means…
Feminism. It’s always been a controversial ideology, particularly among those who identify as male, but we have recently seen a surge in women who say they are against feminist ideals. From Shailene Woodley telling TIME magazine in May that she’s not a feminist because:
“I love men, and I think the idea of ‘raise women to power, take the men away from the power’ is never going to work out because you need balance.”
to the hashtag #WomenAgainstFeminism that has been flooding social media sites like Twitter and Tumblr over the past couple of weeks, accompanying posts by women saying they don’t need feminism or are “anti-feminist” because of X, Y, and Z, it’s clear that…well, people don’t really know what feminism means.
So here are two open letters, one to the women who call themselves “anti-feminist”, and one to everyone who thinks feminism is a bad thing.