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What do you look like?

Friday, March, 28, 2008
So today Nikki sent me a link to this video created by the Feminist Majority on YouTube.

 

The Feminist Majority Foundation (FMF), which was founded in 1987, is an organization dedicated to women's equality, reproductive health, and non-violence. In all spheres, FMF utilizes research and action to empower women economically, socially, and politically. The organization believes that feminists - both women and men, girls and boys - are the majority, but this majority must be empowered.

I found it to be really well done but it also made me wonder about you, the readers that read and participate with us online... is this what you look like? Do you look like feminist? Do you "kind of" look like a feminist? Or are you altogether something else?

As you've probably seen already, we're pushing our Vday '08 - Quest for Feminism special section, video blog and contest. to find out what that word, "feminism", means to women today. We're doing this not to make a political statement per se, but really to begin opening up a conversation about how a one word can mean so many different things to so many different women.

What do you look like? -h


margaret
margaret
Posted Fri, 03/28/2008 - 16:35
and also, ps i LOVE allison janney, go CJ!
margaret
margaret
Posted Fri, 03/28/2008 - 14:28
i think it's such a shame that some (smartsy fartsy) people make women feel bad for their self-presentation, especially their clothes (not to mention: makeup, boobs, waist size, designer bag, shoes, manicure, oh i could go on and on...)! we express our true selves in so many different ways and should never be shamed by anyone for wearing a short skirt one day or sweatpants another day!
Giulietta
Giulietta
Posted Fri, 03/28/2008 - 08:06
Hi Heather, In the video, Christine Lahti said, "A feminist is a humanist." That's how I think of myself - a humanist - and what I most related to in the video. Years ago in a grad school program filled with lots of self-described feminists, I walked into a meeting wearing the miniest of mini-skirts and my hair all wild and unrestrained. One of the professors rushed up to me and said, "you're brave to wear that in here." That's when I decided to be a humanist. If being a feminist meant doing, speaking or acting in some "pre-approved way," I would have just been substituting one set of restraints for another. I look like myself!
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Posted Fri, 03/28/2008 - 13:47
Giulietta - Thanks for the comment. After reading your posts all month, I would agree with your self-assessment. You truly are a humanist.

Webster's definition of humanism...

humanism

noun

an outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters. Humanist beliefs stress the potential value and goodness of human beings, emphasize common human needs, and seek solely rational ways of solving human problems.

I think you and Christine might be on to something. :)

Heather Nagel-Doughtie Director, Digital Media Skirt.com digitalmedia@skirt.com