Mindy Nettifee’s spoken word piece
encouraging women to start calling themselves feminists is at times funny,
bitter, inspiring and thought-provoking. Her poem calls out young women who
have accepted the limiting roles discussed in Miss Representation and other
objects in this gallery, and demands that they start thinking critically about
what feminism actually is. She acknowledges how the term has been demonized,
and also pushes her audience to think about how far we have yet to go to achieve
an equal society.
Nettifee’s work needed to be
included here as a call to arms. Equipped with the knowledge from personal experience
and from research presented in Miss Representation, Nettifee forces us to ask
what exactly is wrong with feminism, and who does it really harm? The answer
is, of course, those already in power, but perhaps another generation of men
and women who do not see these things as zero-sum games might be able to right
the injustices of gender and sex discrimination.
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