As someone who is epicene in nature, I am drawn to the ideals of feminist thinking. Not man-hating, angry, or destructive feminism (though I have been all three at one point or another), but feminism as the most excellent bell hooks would describe it:
"Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression."
I would add, for the purposes of this blog, my own tag line to that, which would be, "in all its various forms." This includes lesbian, gay, bi, trans and queer peoples too - it wouldn't be terribly feminist if it didn't.
All the big, scary sociological terms that frighten the hell out of everyone like heternormativism, homophobia, sexism, racism, classism, ableism, etc, are the kinds of things I want to address here. No fear though. I want to make sure that these thoughts are done in a easily accessible way. Someday we'll all figure out that until we are all equal, we are all in some way held back.
This blog is in NO way anti-male nor will it ever be. That would be un-feminist. It is about understanding the gendered world in which we live and breaking the chains with which any dominant form of societal organization burdens all people.
I hope you'll join me on this journey as I study my gendered life and this gendered world in which we live.
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