We Should All Be Feminists
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She is such an intelligent human being. She has a way with words that doesn't feel like she is trying to bash those who don't agree with her.
Una carta muy breve y consisa que puede comunicar tanto a hombres como mujeres los principales prejuicios subyacentes en nuestra sociedad. Me gustó la breve forma en que la autora aborda su opinión sobre el feminismo, no obstante sentí en algunas partes del libro cierto radicalismo de este concepto.
“Some people ask, ‘Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?' Because that would be dishonest...to choose to use the vague expression human rights is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender. [...] It would be a way of denying that the problem of gender targets women. That the problem was not about being human, but specifically about being a female human.” (p. 41)
This also strikes me as a phenomenal explanation of why “all lives matter” is not an acceptable modification of “Black lives matter”. The problem is the targeting of Black lives, and to try to broaden the scope of the issue (for certain people's comfort, as Adichie implies) results in erasure of the actual problem, sweeping it under the rug rather than highlighting the concern so that it must be directly seen and confronted.
As a whole, this essay is an excellent primer or refresher course on the basics of feminism: what it is, why it is needed, how people respond to the concept. It is largely basic information, but it is written clearly and engagingly, and even those of us well-familiar with the topic may benefit from this work as a quick refresher, or find new, compelling explanations or phrasings of concepts. Adichie also includes many examples and anecdotes from her own experiences in Nigeria, which may provide a novel and important intersectional perspective for many white/Western feminists.
Maybe not the most in depth but the point brought across perfectly with examples and experiences.
Oh, this is painful... everything she says is so self-evident to me, and knowing that the examples she gives are true, that the opposite is so self-evident to so many other people... it breaks my heart!
And, everything that has been said about race, anti-racism, being “color-blind”, and an ally, it all goes for feminism as well.
Enlightening read about feminism. Also, interesting to hear about Nigerian culture and feminism. Very concise and easy to read. Many quotes stood out and resonated with me, especially about gender expectations.
”My own definition of a feminist is a man or a woman who says, yes, there's a problem with gender as it is today and we must fix it, we must do better. All of us, women and men, must do better.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wrote an easy essay about how culture and education contribute to gender roles. Although I preferred the book ”A feminist manifesto in fifteen lessons”, this one contains powerful messages and I would especially recommend it to my male friends.
When discussing feminism with some of them, I often get the impression they feel threatened by some of my ideias and beliefs. Being a feminist does not mean I am against men, it just means that we are still not treated equally and that we must fix this.
This book easily shows that we do not feel this is all men's fault. Most of the time men aren't even aware of the problem and that's why I always need to give examples to prove gender discrimination exists.
Men need to be aware and think more about gender because we all have the power to change the future.
”The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are.”
Может, я просто не знаю, какими невежественными бывают люди, но мне это эссе не сказало ничего нового. Никаких откровений, никаких страстей - все обыденно и просто (и от этого, конечно, несколько беспокойно). При этом рука не поднимется поставить плохую оценку из-за важности поднимаемой темы. Поэтому ничего не поставлю, но про себя отмечу - что та же Кейтлин Моран мне ближе в плане обоснования феминизма.
La primera vez que lo leí era mucho más impresionable, así que le di cuatro estrellas. Ahora me doy cuenta de lo disperso y de visión corta que es.
Me ha gustado muchísimo, está muy bien para tener algunas cosas claras y explica cosas que a lo mejor no te habías planteado desde ese punto de vista, que es lo que me ha pasado (:
Lo recomiendo como una lectura ligerita que tiene contenido feminista y que la verdad se lee en nada y aclara algunas cosas que a lo mejor no tenías claro, seguiré leyendo más cosas de la autora porque me ha gustado bastante como escribe 👌🏼
I thought it was a proper book, its not. It takes less than 20 mins to read it but its a fantastic read.
A tiny book that is a retooling of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's TEDx talk (which also gets dropped in Beyonce's Flawless) was recently made available to every 16 year old in Sweden. And while you can see the entire presentation online this physical artifact carries with it its own weight when pressed into the hands of your 16 year old daughter.
A quick and concise, clearly stated reminder of what it is we're fighting for. Such a quick piece that there really is no excuse not to read it.
Heard so many things about this book from my favorite WGS professor. Slightly disappointed in the book. That was just me though. I think everyone should read this book. It's short. It's approachable. It's easy. It's something you can use to kind of dip your toe in the water if you're just learning about feminism, or just allowing yourself to open up to feminism. I'm already 5 college courses deep into high fiber, dense feminist reading though and this book didn't really stick out to me.