"The F-Word"- Finkbeier & "Fear of Feminism"-Hogeland

Quotes from "The F-Word"

1. "It's easy to take the past for granted as we go busily through our days working, going to school, spending time in the car and on the bus, attending meetings, taking care of kids, doing homework, wrestling cell phones, building careers, and creating lives.  Yet for young women, especially, to ignore the achievements of the past is to underestimate the relative fragility of women's contemporary status.  So before moving forward, we should work to understand our beginnings" (20).
      To me this quote made me realize that I sometimes take things for granted when I don't take a minute to think about everything that I have or need.  As I have learned in my previous years to sort out what my needs and wants are, as this quote also reflects on a women's everyday actions and how sometimes we forget to think things through.  "It's easy to take the past for granted as we go busily through our days..." this reflects my thoughts exactly about our daily lives.  It also states how young women in the current generation take most things for granted and don't think about the background information of how things came about.

2. "Getting the right to vote was the first step...women had the right to vote at the end of the first wave of feminism" (25). 
      Noting that the first wave consisted of women fighting for the right to vote was a struggle for them all just to prove to congress that women also have a voice and believe to be equal as so are males.  This quote mentions the first wave and also talks about how they struggled to have equal voting rights.

3. "Women of color were an integral part of the movement from the very beginning, yet women of color and white women often worked for change alongside one another, instead of as part of the same overall movement" (27).
      Basically I beleive that whether your white or colored, I still STRONGLY believe that no matter the gender or race men and women should all have equal rights on voting and for anything else.  No-one should be specifically picked on; they should note that everyone is to be treated the same way (The way one would want to be treated).

Quotes from "Fear of Feminism"

1. "Some people may argue that young women have far less to lose by becoming feminists than do older women: they have a smaller stake in the system and fewer ties to it" (1).
      What!? I know that young women have fear in themselves but why do we have "far less to loose by becoming feminists" (1), I'm so confused; do we not believe in ourselves that we can actually control our feelings and make decisions on our own by actually thinking things through. This is very confusing now!

2. "Our culture allows women so little scope for development, for exploration, for testing the boundaries of what they can do and who they can be (2).
     The culture in the present day has changed where so people move accordingly with the way government allows us.  So thinking about the development of the women has come a long way both through voting and how culture has changed now.  I think that this quotes means the women like to seek new things and find ways to solve a situation.  They like to see what they can make a change with and to development new ideas; in doing so women can represent themselves in a new way. 

3. "Think harder, act more carefully; feminism requires that you enter a world supersaturated with meaning, with implications... fear of feminism is also fear of complexity, fear of thinking, fear of ideas" (3).  
      As Hogeland states this almost so called 'fact', it gets my mind wondering is this really right or am I over thinking this?  No, women do think hard and think in a different way of if this happens what will the result be in the end, or if I do this is it going to be good or bad in the end.  Whether it's cooking, cleaning, managing a family, or anything else us women do "think harder, and act more carefully" as Hogeland stated.  But going back to the feminism portion it does require us to think hard about our decision as women and then to understand the meaning of being a feminist or being against it.  In the end it does require allot of analyzing and we do think about our actions before stating our answer.

These few quotes from both "The F-Word" and "Fear of Feminism" that I have specifically selected had me thinking hard and asking myself some questions.  From taking things for granted and really just thinking about the struggles that some people went through, for example having the right to vote.  Women fought so hard to have the right to vote and how some people choose to vote or not to vote.  Then how women think hard about the decisions they make, rather than just making them.  Lastly, no matter what race or gender someone is everybody should be treated equally no matter what.