Bryan W. wrote:
>This is an excellent point. I have seen many people in our society,
>including myself on occassion, taking the victim role. Your attitude and
>philosophy allows you to move beyond that to become a intelligent free
>thinking woman. Great:-)
>As I understand it, part of the MO for this list is to create people that
>can think just like you. As a question to the list, am I correct here?
I don't know that we are trying to create "people"...
>>Wow, that is a loaded question. I'm not sure if it was ever a process of
>>learning or being taught. I never had a class (unless you count Life 101
>>;-)) to inform me. There are Women's Studies at universities of course,
>>but I'm not familiar with those. Actually, I plead ignorance; I've never
>>formally studied 'Feminism'.
>
>Of course not, how were you first exposed to the idea?
>Was it a pamphlet or a paper?
>Perhaps someone just told you some interesting facts.
>
>This is what I was looking for.
Hmm...It's hard to remember the "first" instance clearly. However, I think it was during my last year in high school; I was taking Lit. classes as the local college during my senior year. One of them was an Ethnic St. course, and a really excellent experience. My teacher was this very unconventional old guy, who was probably the best professor I have ever had. Anyhow, we covered a lot of women writiers, and I think that involved some exposure to "Feminist" literature. Before then, I probably encountered it on the Internet. I don't think your average student gets exposed to 'Feminsim' in grade or high school, as our education system really stinks. And I don't think the idea comes up often in a girl's magazine like "Teen" either. Heh.
~kjs