{"id":343,"date":"2014-10-07T22:10:46","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T02:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/?p=343"},"modified":"2017-10-31T22:11:20","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T02:11:20","slug":"feminism-for-anti-feminists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/2014\/10\/07\/feminism-for-anti-feminists\/","title":{"rendered":"Feminism for Anti-Feminists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check out some great writing from our own\u00a0<a title=\"Bio\" href=\"http:\/\/bucultureshock.com\/author\/cwedd\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cecilia Weddell<\/a>, a BU senior, writing for <a title=\"Culture Shock\" href=\"http:\/\/bucultureshock.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">BU Culture Shock<\/a>.<a href=\"https:\/\/hoochiewoman.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/boston_university_seal.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1677 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/hoochiewoman.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/boston_university_seal.png?w=150&amp;h=150\" alt=\"Boston_University_seal\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>When I see former acquaintances, teammates, and even friends speaking against feminism\u2014speaking against their\u00a0own\u00a0worth as equals to men\u2014I am sad. I see these women as patriarchy\u2019s biggest victims. They are women who have been\u00a0convinced\u00a0to fight against their own right to equality, and who\u00a0truly\u00a0do see their value in the terms of whether or not they have attracted the attention of a man. And it makes for an odd question of choice: should I cut this sort of thinking out of my life, unfollow, and move on? Should I try to understand and to educate, to explain the real values of feminism while risking further misunderstanding and ruin of what once was a friendship, or at least a mutual respect?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the rest of the article <a title=\"Feminism for Anti-Feminists\" href=\"http:\/\/bucultureshock.com\/feminism-anti-feminists\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out some great writing from our own\u00a0Cecilia Weddell, a BU senior, writing for BU Culture Shock. When I see former acquaintances, teammates, and even friends speaking against feminism\u2014speaking against their\u00a0own\u00a0worth as equals to men\u2014I am sad. I see these women as patriarchy\u2019s biggest victims. They are women who have been\u00a0convinced\u00a0to fight against their own &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/2014\/10\/07\/feminism-for-anti-feminists\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Feminism for Anti-Feminists<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7073,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[72,5],"tags":[479,18,127,19,480,145,146,218,166,6,224,481,482,483,484],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343"}],"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=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions\/344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}