{"id":127,"date":"2010-04-27T19:10:11","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T23:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/?p=127"},"modified":"2017-10-31T20:06:56","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T00:06:56","slug":"im-a-feminist-thats-right-i-said-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/2010\/04\/27\/im-a-feminist-thats-right-i-said-it\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m a Feminist. That\u2019s right, I said it."},"content":{"rendered":"

For a feminist blog, this may seem like the most obvious, clich\u00e9d statement in the world. You all know as well as I do (probably better) that millions of articles, books, documentaries, et cetera have treated this very issue. They have treated it kindly, unfairly and everywhere in between. I don\u2019t pretend that I can join their ranks. But I do propose that we all take a moment (maybe more than that) to define feminism for ourselves. Not what we think feminism is, historically, idealistically, for our grandmother, for Phyllis Schlafly or for Betty Friedan. Feminism has become a scary word for most young women. How many times have you heard, \u201cwell, I support women\u2019s issues, but I\u2019m not a feminist<\/em>.\u201d We need to change that. I\u2019m thequeenofscots, and I\u2019m the new Hoochie blogger. I\u2019ll start with this. I am a feminist. No qualifier, no blushing. Let me begin the conversation by telling you a few things about me (in no particular order):<\/p>\n

\u2013\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I believe wholeheartedly in a woman\u2019s right to choose. I also know that having an abortion is a horrible experience, but if a woman does not want to have a child, she should not have to have a child. For me, the issue is ultimately that simple.<\/p>\n

\u2013\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I think \u201cman-bashing\u201d is completely destructive and inhibiting. Men can be (and are) feminists, too. We can\u2019t leave them out of the fold.<\/p>\n

\u2013\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019ll admit it. I don\u2019t like my body a lot of the time. But it\u2019s so BORING to constantly have the \u201cI\u2019m fat\u201d conversation. As women, we have better things to talk about, and more important things to do than obsessively pick apart our bodies.<\/p>\n

\u2013\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Finally, I believe that young men and women need to take back feminism. We support women\u2019s issues AND we are feminists!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For a feminist blog, this may seem like the most obvious, clich\u00e9d statement in the world. You all know as well as I do (probably better) that millions of articles, books, documentaries, et cetera have treated this very issue. They have treated it kindly, unfairly and everywhere in between. I don\u2019t pretend that I can … Continue reading I\u2019m a Feminist. That\u2019s right, I said it.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7073,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,121],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7073"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions\/128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}