Proposal #4

I decided to incorporate my paper on feminism into a fairytale. I'm not sure which fairytale I am going to use yet but I am considering Snow White and Hanzel & Gretel. By using either of these I think I can incorporate the inequalities that women feel against men. I also think that I may be able to address the sterotypes that feminists deal with. Considering I also have to write the analysis paper these may be harder than what I anticipated and a lot more writing, but I love writing more creatively. This might be one of the more fun papers for me also. I'm going to narrow my audience down to young women because they are less likely now days to understand feminism or see the purpose it serves today. I'm not sure yet on my audience but that is my idea. My point is going to be to prove that feminism is needed and we are not post-feminism.

3 Women about Feminism

Mother-age 54-Believed that feminism is womens idea of being equal to men and being able to think for themselves. Based on her definition of feminism, yes, she considers herself a feminist, because she believes women should have equal rights and not be under the control of men. Voting is one issue she remembers happening in history that related to feminism. Man-haters is a stereotype that she categorized femimists in. She believes feiminsm is needed today because men still think it is a mans world.
Friend-age 27-Believed feminism is a movement lead by women to get equal rights. She doesn't consider herself a feminist. She believes there is still a need for feminist but doesn't see where it is personal to her. She has most commonly heard the stereotype of dikes for feminists. She also recognizes the movement of abortion from feminism.
Neice-age 16-Not to sure what feminism is but linked it to women and an action they take. She did not consider herself a feminist because she didn't fully know what it was and after I tried to explain it to her she also did not see where it was a personal enough issue to her to consider herself a feminist. She could not link feminim to any particular movement other than voting. She did not see the need for feminism today and thinks we have equal rights.

Blog Spot Female Chauvinist Pigs

What shocks me the most about this text is the detail. The issues address very "real" issues in todays society. I have read many articles and other sources about issues like porn and GGW, but the book addresses these issues in detail. Instead of just saying GGW showcases girls lifting their shirts it describes in detail how the girls act and talk. Another topic that shocked me was about the CAKE group. I didn't know what it was untill reading this book. I was shocked I have heard of things like the Playboy mansion but the parties and actions of this group was shocking. This is different from all the other text just in the way it is worded. The other books seemed to make a sentence that could be 5 words long, 15 words long and that is just confusing. The topic in this book is also very different because it hits closer to home with society. Although branding and hip-hop are very real topics I personally dont think they are as addressed now days as the issues in Female Chauvinist Pigs. I do not have any personal experiences with the text for the most part other than the knowing of it being so popular and desired.