{"id":777,"date":"2013-06-01T08:45:26","date_gmt":"2013-06-01T03:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/feministwords.wordpress.com\/?p=67"},"modified":"2013-06-01T08:45:26","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T03:15:26","slug":"calling-yourself-feminist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/2013\/06\/01\/calling-yourself-feminist\/","title":{"rendered":"Calling yourself feminist!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abigail Rine, The Atlantic (May 2 2013)<\/p>\n<p>Abigail Rine&#8217;s feminism is rooted as much in theory and study as in practice. With two advanced degrees in feminist studies and men a book on feminist literary criticism (coming out later this year), she still finds herself wondering if she must call herself a feminist publicly.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And yet, in my professional and personal life, I increasingly find myself talking about feminist ideas without actually using the word &#8220;feminism.&#8221; Why? It is exhausting to preface every conversation about combating misogyny with winsome, disarming anecdotes about how I actually do like men\u2014enough to even marry one!\u2014and how I actually haven&#8217;t burned any bras (and probably never will, because they are so expensive). I&#8217;m tired of doing this myth-debunking dance, and, weirdly enough, the conversation often goes more smoothly if I just avoid the &#8220;F-Word&#8221; entirely.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/sexes\/archive\/2013\/05\/the-pros-and-cons-of-abandoning-the-word-feminist\/275511\/\">Full article here<\/a>. A must read if you are going to walk into the world and call yourself a feminist (for the first time).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abigail Rine, The Atlantic (May 2 2013) Abigail Rine&#8217;s feminism is rooted as much in theory and study as in practice. With two advanced degrees in feminist studies and men a book on feminist literary criticism (coming out later this year), she still finds herself wondering if she must call herself a feminist publicly. And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[37,78,131,132,262],"class_list":["post-777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-abigail-rine","tag-brand","tag-feminism","tag-feminist","tag-name"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}