We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Single) (A Vintage Short)

Poor men still have the privileges of being men, even if they do not have the privileges of being wealthy.

If we keep seeing only men as heads of corporations, it starts to seem “natural” that only men should be heads of corporations.

Culture does not make people. People make culture.

le things that sting the most.

it is one thing to know something intellectually, and quite another to feel it emotionally. Each time they ignore me, I feel invisible. I feel upset. I want to tell them that I am just as human as the man, just as worthy of acknowledgment. These are little things, but sometimes it is the litt

Some people will say a woman is subordinate to men because it’s our culture. But culture is constantly changing.

Poor men still have the privileges of being men, even if they do not have the privileges of being wealthy.

Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general—but to choose to use the vague expression human rights is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender.

The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are.

But the reality is more difficult, more complex. We are all social beings. We internalize ideas from our socialization.