Reasons I Am Told I Cannot Be A Feminist
Culled from Books, Message Boards, Web Pages and Conversations by, for, and against feminists
- Because I shave my legs.
- Because I color my hair.
- Because I wear skirts.
- Because I wear dresses.
- Because I wear high heels.
- Because I had plastic surgery.
- Because I had breast implants.
- Because I had vaginoplasty.
- Because I am attracted to men.
- Because I still am attracted to women.
- Because I’ve read a few books on feminism.
- Because I’ve only read a few books on feminism.
- Because I have a vagina–now.
- Because I didn’t have a vagina–then.
- Because I don’t have a cervix.
- Because I had a penis.
- Because I had male privilege.
- Because I had white, male, middle-class privilege.
- Because I still have white, middle-class privilege.
- Because I wasn’t raised as a girl.
- Because I look like a dude.
- Because I look like a woman.
- Because of who I was.
- Because of who I am.
- Because I dare call myself a woman.