Contact the GSA in your state or city.
https://unite.gsanetwork.org/petitions/breaking-the-gender-binary-at-graduation
]]>Whenever the subject of feminism is broached, however, I do like to point out that partly why feminism never really achieved it’s goals is that there is an associated liberation that needs to happen–men’s liberation. While I am fully aware that a patriarchal society bestows privilege and entitlements to men–it is still an unhappy and imbalanced role that they must serve in order for the patriarchy to continue in it’s oppression of (really, if you think about it) all people. Take note of all the creative, sensitive young men you know that get pushed and molded into an acceptable form for this society later in life (ok, you may be too young to notice this, but you will notice it later, I guarantee). I often see lovely 20 something men who, in their 30s, felt they had to buckle down into the pressure of male conformity and lose their outward sensitivity and expressiveness in order to “succeed” or survive in this patriarchal society. At least the idea of you wearing pants is not abhorrent to most modern teens and adults–but if you were a man and it was a dress (or even the color pink); there’s a lot more gender bias at stake. And that’s just the tip of the double-standard iceberg of which most men themselves are not yet fully aware. If men were to reach true liberation, female liberation would be a more complete and sustainable reality and not something that constantly needs justification. Because yes, you are right, feminism is still very necessary.
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