Reflection
Posted on May 3, 2008
Filed Under Opinion |
As the year ends, truths come out.
One of my professors asked me, “____, why do you hate men?” I responded with, “I don’t hate men; I disagree with people who hate women.”
He responded, “So you just don’t like bad people?”
Couldn’t have said it better.
The stigma surrounding feminism is astounding. I started reading “Getting off: Pornography and the end of Masculinity,” written by Robert Jensen, a professor at UT. I took his class in the Fall of 2007. He refers to the class in his book, when he recalls asking how many people in the room considered themselves feminists–and only three out of 200 raised their hands.
Yesterday I visited his office and told him I was one of the three.
I told him how I felt our society was more racism-conscious than sexism-conscious. He agreed that in most circumstances, it was true.
He wanted to know what I am going to do about it.
I don’t know.
Maybe something along the lines he has done himself…
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