Anonymous asked: you'd be so pissed off if a boyzzz united club was set off though
ft. commentary from the fabulous and wonderful Lucy K!
We are setting up a feminism committee at school in the first place because there’s a whole generation of people, especially very young girls, in my school who aren’t aware of the issues that will face them in the world - that there’s governments trying to take away their ability to choose what they want to do with their own uteruses. IT’S IMPORTANT TO KNOW ABOUT THINGS THAT WILL POTENTIALLY, YOU KNOW, AFFECT YOUR LIFE. Like my sister, who didn’t know that people like Dorries were trying to prevent her from getting real sex education, but now that she knows, she’s taking more of an interest in politics (proclaiming ‘no one’s telling me what to do with my vagina’). Also, out of the great total of twenty boys in our sixth form in total, there are a couple who don’t know what identifying as a feminist means - like the guy who joked that he’d smash my face with a pan if I set this committee up because he thought that feminist = man hater, and he just couldn’t see the sexism in society. But once he was explained about all the issues and stuff, he admitted that he agreed with us and what we’re trying to do.
FEMINISM MEANS EQUALITY, and the fact that there is a reason there’s a Women’s Day at all is because of centuries of a very male-dominated society. Honouring and celebrating brilliant female figures at a time when lots of girls are being influenced by negative media stereotypes can only be a good thing, and that’s not attacking or diminishing men at all.
