Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Visionary Feminism
In class on Thursday, we were all asked what we thought "visionary feminism" was, and the way in which we all responded was a silent blank stare. Since then I have been thinking about what "visionary feminism" is to me. After much thought, I have decided that "visionary feminism" is being in the present, but actively looking and working towards the future. Now, let me explain a little more. By "being in the present," I am saying that we have to understand and be educated on what is going on around us and how it relates to what we believe as feminists. Next, we "look towards that future," by looking at these situations around us and deciding what we want to change about them and how we are going to make these changes. This can be defined as the vision. Finally, we "work towards the future" by actively putting our ideas to work and doing things, not just thinking about things, to visually make a positive change in our society. Over all my idea of "visionary feminism" can be explained and acted upon in three steps. Educate. Visualize. Apply. Now "visionary feminists," go change your world! :0)
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Great way to put it Whitney. I agree with you 100% that the three steps/actions needed to be taken with visionary feminism are educate, visualize, and aplly. If all three are done, then the world of feminism would be greater and changes would be made. Like Gandhi said that it just takes one person to start a change, it takes on visionary feminist to impact other feminist by educating women of feminism and our gender role that is seen through society, to visualize how we should be seen and let others see this visualization and to finally apply this education and visualization in our everyday world. I agree with you that if the three are done, our world would change.
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