Can a book you read in less than 30 minutes be considered an ‘official book’ in your yearly count? If it’s as amazing as this one you sure can!
I don’t know why it took me years to read this super short book that is also a TEDx talk which you could watch instead of reading this book. You can find it here: TED We Should All Be Feminists. I’m watching it as I write this review.
The socialization we have about what ‘women should do’ and what ‘men should do’ affects every aspect of our lives. As you read through this, you’ll see it clear as day even if you’ve never thought about gender before.
As I read this, I kept seeing a connection to race in America. We are socialized to think certain things about women, men, black women, black men, Hispanic men, Hispanic women, etc, etc, etc. This is important reading in the unlearning process. It’s hard reading.
Unlearning something is harder than learning it because once you see it you have to dismantle previous thoughts and you find yourself saying, “Oh my goodness, my life has been built on a lie.” Once we see it, we are compelled to change – but change is uncomfortable and hard.
While there is much work to do for feminism still, the work we need to do today is about race. We cannot continue to operate in a society that assumes things about people based on their race.
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