Misogyny should not be tolerated on DU

[seabeyond]

215. thank you for bringing this up. and let me say. i did not call me a feminist until about a year ago

and this is why.

i have always spoken out for womens issue. well, duh. i have also always spoken out for every underdog issue there has ever been in all of my lifetime. since a kid.

it has been who i am all my life. and i never called myself a feminist. for different reasons. but mostly, cause i did not think had earned the right to wear the title.

with the repugs. with society as a whole. the utter humiliation, shame, degradation, submission of women in porn, ect..... it has been the last decade but mostly the last 5 yrs of the aggressive, ugly ass, in our face, lefting a middle finger to women, saying out loud, HATE of women.

literally fuckin HATE.

and i am raising two boys.

being respectful of their being... they get to love every single piece of their boys, as i get to love every bit of my woman.

(i am digressing, i will get to the bottomline)

though i lived it, i spoke out to it, i taught my boys in it, i NEVER called myself a feminist.

i respect those women so. they are so smart. put in the time. put in the work. got educated. i did not. i just lived it.

i NEVER thought i earned or deserved the title of feminist. even when everyone was calling me one. as if they were insulting me. and i would take self away from the title. not cause they shamed me. but, i didnt deserve it

i wanted to say that last night when i read davids post.

the title feminist has never been taken in majority. and it never will. a feminist.... is me. and so many other women and young women.... oh they are bold, strong, loud (and they do not apologize) and they will not do it nicely.

we gotta get comfortable in the skin of it. a lot of our young are.

i do call myself a feminist now, though. it feels good on me. it LOOKS good on me. dontcha think? lol. i do.

different perspectives.