Where do you get your knowledge on what a "feminist" is?

Question

Do you search online? If so, what's your favorite source?

Have you taken courses in high school or university? If so, which ones?

Do your friends influence your thoughts on the subject?

Have you read any articles or books that helped influence your decisions? What were they?

I'm not asking if you're a feminist or not. I'm asking how you came to know what you know. :) ...I'm curious (and bored at work again)!

Answer 1

I've read many books (The Feminine Mystique, Backlash, The Beauty Myth, etc.) and do a little bit of online reading (Feministing, this forum, etc.).

Answer 2

University. I made sociology studies as degree studies, but my thesis research is about political participation of women.

Answer 3

I talk to people and follow the behavior of those who call themselves feminists, straight from the horse's mouth.

Answer 4

I base it off of the people who call themselves feminists in real life most of the time, although I know they don't represent all feminists.  But the feminists I see in real life are a reason why I had a negative image of feminists for a long time, and still do to an extent.  It's hard to shake those negative images of the women who often really do come close to the man-hating level.

Answer 5

I am a men's rights activist (hence the MRA in my name) and it is often thought that all MRAs are anti-feminist. This is wrong in my case. I am prepared to judge each feminist on their merit as a human being and that alone.

Answer 6

From the men and women of GWS :-D

Answer 7

My main source is the newspaper, and after I couldn't believe what I was reading, I cam online and my thoughts were confirmed.

I now have a 5 page word document full of links which should be enough evidence to support my view that feminism should get out of the western world.

Answer 8

By them always being in your face about it!

Answer 9

it comes to me naturally.

Answer 10

I learn from their actions.  Remember, actions speak louder than words.

Also from the results of feminism.

The bias laws against men, the suffering economy due to a bulging labor market, stuff like that.

Answer 11

Lots of reading - but I think the book that most clarified my thoughts was Feminist Political Theory by Valerie Bryson.  It's a bit hard going at times, but it will open your mind about feminism like no other book can, in my opinion :-)

Answer 12

I was there.  I'm old.  I saw most of the changes except Seneca Falls Convention and the 19th Amendment of course. : ).  Unfortunately, Title IX happend just a few semesters too late to protect me from being severely discriminated against, not allowed to go to engineering school here in the U.S. that I was accepted at and got a full-paid scholarship from because they found out I did not process male genitalia.

These days, I am very involved in politics related to children and family issues and must read everything all the time to educate myself.  I recommend learning about the history of women first through anthropology, sociology, psychology and diaries.  Visit lots of museums.  Interview elderly women in nursing homes and sit-in on public family court.  Get the truth from women, not Fox News, any conservative foundation or some Bible-Thumper. They'll lie to you about the history of women because they have their own anti-equal rights / anti-woman agendas.

Answer 13

God don't like feminist because they are judging all men by a select few and thats wrong.