We Should All Be Feminists

A very short, fast read about gender and the need for us all to become feminists: A person who believes in the social, political, and economic equality of the sexes.

Quotes:
“the higher you go, the fewer women there are.”

“We spend too much time teaching girls to worry about what boys think of them. But the reverse is not the case.”

“A world of happier men and happier women who are truer to themselves. And this is how to start: We must raise our daughters differently. We must also raise our sons differently.”

“The harder a man feels compelled to be, the weaker his ego is.”

“We use the word respect for something a woman shows a man but often not for something a man shows a woman. Both men and women will say: ‘I did it for peace in my marriage.' When men say it, it is usually about something they should not be doing anyway... When women say [it], it is usually because they have given up a job, a career goal, a dream.”

“Some men feel threated by the idea of feminism. This comes, I think, from the insecurity triggered by how boys are brought up, how their sense of self-worth is diminished if they are not ‘naturally' in charge as men”

“Men need to speak out in all of these ostensibly small situations.”

“Culture does not make people. People make culture. If it is true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, then we can and must make it our culture.”