Comments on: Me me me!

By: dreamy

dreamy — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 08:09:36 +0000

Hey Emmie,
Thanks for the tag

I can imagine u have lots of imagination from the awesome pics of the food u make yum! :d

By: johanna3

johanna3 — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 20:50:53 +0000

great post!

By: Emmie

Emmie — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 17:52:35 +0000

Bazu – I was talking about feminism with my mum yesterday, she says she’s not a feminist, but that’s bullshit. To her the word just seems dirty and wrong, but she’s one of the first feminists I’ve ever met and she’s influenced me more than she knows.
To me it actually seems like the U.S. is one of the western countries that needs feminism the most. I’m no expert on the U.S. obviously but with the whole traditional christian patriarchal thing people in your country do, you sure seems to need it. Even England needs a big bunch of feminists damnit. Just the fact that so many women live as stay at home wives and mothers. That is one big trap for women. I’m not planning on having children and Alex agrees, but if we were ever to have any it would have to be HIS baby and responsibility, as much as mine. And there is no way anyone would ever be able to change how I feel about that. I’m ranting again! Someone stop me!

Theresa – I say I’m a feminist proudly but people often look at me with horror when I do. Just a few days ago I got the ‘Are you one of those FEMINISTS? Well I think that women are biologically meant to cook and take care of the home, do you hate men, it’s not like they can breastfeed, women are supposed to give birth a man can’t do it can he?’. It was both a bit scary and hilarious, being the mean person I am I started laughing at her, which wasn’t exactly nice, but I was so tired.

By: Diann

Diann — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 03:29:11 +0000

It’s great to learn more about you. I am continually impressed by the maturity and passionate energy of all you young bloggers. I can’t tell you how much I despise “feminazi”!

I think about food all the time too and take cookbooks to read on my lunchbreak at work.

By: theresa

theresa — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 23:52:58 +0000

Hey, great to know more about you! I love all your letters. I agree with you and Bazu both. Feminism is a dirty word these days, but I think we all need to bring it back into every day usage!

By: bazu

bazu — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 23:40:21 +0000

I love it- thanks for doing this meme! I think we will have much to talk about when/if we ever meet. (I promise I’m coming to Sweden… some time…)

I really know what you mean about feminism. It’s very hard being a radical feminist in a culture like the U.S. where the very word is considered somehow dirty, outdated, or unnecessary. Radio hosts here call us “feminazis” and for that reason many people here don’t even want to use the word, let alone think about what it means. Solidarity!