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  • Aug 22

  But, of course, you might be asking yourself, ‘Am I a feminist? I might not be. I don’t know! I still don’t know what it is! I’m too knackered and confused to work it out. That curtain pole really still isn’t up. I don’t have time to work out if I am a women’s libber! There seems to be a lot to it. WHAT DOES IT MEAN?’ I understand.

  So here is the quick way of working out if you’re a feminist. Put your hand in your underpants. a. Do you have a vagina? and b. Do you want to be in charge of it?

  
  If you said ‘yes’ to both, then congratulations! You’re a feminist.

  Because we need to reclaim the word ‘feminism’. We need the word ‘feminism’ back real bad. When statistics come in saying that only 29 per cent of American women would describe themselves as feminist - and only 42 per cent of British women - I used to think, What do you think feminism IS, ladies? What part of ‘liberation for women’ is not for you? Is it freedom to vote? The right not to be owned by the man you marry? The campaign for equal pay? ‘Vogue’, by Madonna? Jeans? Did all that good shit GET ON YOUR NERVES? Or were you just DRUNK AT THE TIME OF SURVEY?

  “How To Be a Woman” by Caitlin Moran. I’m halfway done with this book and I highly recommend. Moran is my new hero.
  • #caitlin moran
  • #idols
  • #awesome women
  • #feminism
  • #how to be a woman
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