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Even wearing clothing like this is a way to show Feminism in your everyday life. It gets the idea out there and opens up conversation and discussion with others.

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Here is an example of Feminist Praxis in the Twin Cities. This is not far from my hometown and something I can participate in in my own life.

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A diverse crowd participated in Saturday's SlutWalk Minneapolis 2011, including barely dressed women, fully dressed women, men, parents with babies, trannies and even pets (plus a Segway tour and horse-drawn carriage inadvertently got in the mix).

The purpose of this rape-awareness event was to spread the messages of 'don't blame the victim' and 'don't rape'. Details are available on the website, and there are news clips from Kare11 and the StarTrib with more info.
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600 Sluts on the Stone Arch Bridge - SlutWalk Minneapolis 2011 - Minneapolis Riverfront News - Minneapolis Riverfront Neighborhoods.

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A diverse crowd participated in Saturday's SlutWalk Minneapolis 2011, including barely dressed women, fully dressed women, men, parents with babies, trannies and even pets (plus a Segway tour and horse-drawn carriage inadvertently got in the mix). The purpose of this rape-awareness event was to spread the messages of 'don't blame the victim' and 'don't rape'.

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The "Woman's Magazine" Cosmopolitan is an example of Feminism in everyday life. Although they can improve carrying out their message, Cosmo does embrace independent women and equality.

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Feminist Praxis is “applying one’s knowledge to challenge oppressive systems and unequal traditions” (Berger and Radeloff). There are many ways to be able to combat inequality of the sexes- both on the large scale and the small scale. One can use this by simply conversing with others. Bringing up the topic of injustice, or pointing out things that could be changed is a simple way to embrace feminism. But it doesn't stop there. One can go to rallies for women's rights, or events. One can where clothing that expresses ideals and opens up conversation.

One example of when I used Feminist Praxis in my life is simply calling out things that were unjust. Someone made a comment about feminism being about hating men and I simply said that they were not correctly informed and told them what was really going on. I had a conversation and tried my best to inform the other party what the goal of Feminism actually is. That was a simple way that I have been able to incorporate my knowledge of Feminism in my daily life. After learning more about feminism, I can no longer stand quietly when I hear comments that are incorrect about women, feminism, or any other marginalized group. The more I study feminism the more I want to embrace it's ideals and teach others about it.

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One way to use Feminism Praxis is to tell your stories and to share with others the struggles women face. Bythe Baird is an empowering feminist poet and I recommend looking into her more.

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These are reasons that inspire me to be a feminist and to speak up about

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1. Because doctors take women's pain less seriously than men's.

2. Because women - especially women of color - still aren't given equal pay in many cases.

3. Because Hispanic women earned only 58 cents on the dollar compared with white men in 2015.

4. And because black women were paid just 63% of what white men were paid in 2015.

5. Because out of our 100 US senators, currently only 21 are women.

6.. Because every six minutes in the United States, a woman is raped.

7. Because women still have stories about being catcalled.

8. And because of this, women feel unsafe pretty much every time the sun sets.

9. Because women are taught to avoid doing certain things for fear of safety instead of men being taught that women are not possessions.

10. Because when women speak out about rape and sexual assault, they are often slut-shamed and harassed by their own peers.

11. And because, according to this survey, 1 in 5 women have experienced sexual assault at some point in their lives.

12. And because when a man rapes a woman he is often given little to no jail time.

13. Because women are judged by their appearance constantly.

14. Because lawmakers still talk about us like we aren't even humans.

15. Because we have to pay a tax on feminine hygiene products even though they are a basic necessity.

16. Because while Viagra was covered under many insurances for years, birth control was only recently covered under the Affordable Care Act.

17. Because we're still treated like sexual objects.

18. Because the word "pussy" is still used as an insult.

19. Because women's tampons and pads were confiscated at a Texas court to preserve "rules of decorum"... Okay?

20. Because women are still being sexually harassed at work.

21. Because men are able to show their nipples on Instagram, but women's photos often are deleted when their nipples are shown.

22. Because modern-day feminism often fails to include women of color.

23. Because a study on male birth control was cut short by a committee after men experienced increased mood swings and low libido.

24. Because there are reportedly 5,000 honor killings internationally each year, and women are often the most at risk.

25. Because approximately 130 million girls have experienced female genitalia mutilation worldwide.

26. Because a woman is still seen as less of a woman if she does not reproduce.

27. Because violence against women is still seen as a "joke."

28. Because Ciara McElveen was the sixth transgender woman killed in 2017.

29. And because queer women in the United States are still being discriminated against.

30. Because 1 in 4 women in the United States will experience domestic violence, but immigrant women are three to six times more likely to experience domestic violence.

31. Because women make up on only 24% of the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) field workforce, and a mere 3% of the workforce are Latina women.

32. Because if I had the emotional capacity, this list could easily go into the 100s.

33. And because even if you haven't personally lived through all of these things, other women have. And that's just fucking sad.

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1. Because doctors take women's pain less seriously than men's. 2. Because women - especially women of color - still aren't given equal pay in many cases. 3. Because Hispanic women earned only 58 cents on the dollar compared with white men in 2015. 4.

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It seems like a given that feminism should try to help all women, especially those who are most disadvantaged. But privileged women don't always realize when they're excluding less privileged groups or how this exclusion harms them - which is why intersectionality is so important. Feminism cannot achieve its goals without intersectionality, and these five facts drive that point home.

The phenomenon of "white feminism" - advocacy for gender equality that ignores the unique experiences of women of color - has brought intersectionality to the forefront of discussions about feminism. For example, after Nicki Minaj called out the exclusion of black women in the entertainment industry on Twitter during this year's VMAs, Miley Cyrus called her "not very polite" - a response that both tone-polices black women and refuses to address racism. This brand of feminism is dangerously common among white women who haven't ever had to think about the experiences of women of color.

By excluding women of color and other marginalized groups, we make feminism a movement that privileges certain perspectives over others - exactly what feminism is trying to combat. In case you need convincing, here are a few facts that prove feminists need to think about more than gender for their feminism to include everyone. This list is by no means exhaustive, but it offers several examples of how, for many groups of people, feminism is not about gender alone.

Let's say a white, non-Hispanic man and a Latina woman both started a new job on Jan. 1, 2014. In order to make as much as he made by Dec. 31, 2014, she would have had to work until last Thursday, October 15, 2015. That's the Latina gender pay gap in action - the fact that Latina women make 54 percent of what white men make for working full-time.

A common argument about the wage gap is that it simply reflects women performing different jobs, but research shows that this doesn't tell the whole story: Renee Davidson points out at Ms. that women are paid less than men for the same jobs within the food service industry, one that contains a disproportionate number of Hispanic people. In addition, the fact that Hispanic women hold different jobs from white men doesn't take away from the problem of unfair payment but rather is a problem in of itself. Hispanic people are less likely to hold college degrees, and only one percent of the computing and engineering workforce consists of Hispanic women.

Black women also face a higher wage gap than white women, making 64 percent of what white men make, and for Native American women, that figure is 65 percent. If we only look at the numbers by gender, we miss how race figures into the problem as well.

This is over twice the unemployment rate of the able-bodied, which was 5.9 percent. And the same prejudice and lack of accommodations that have excluded disabled people from the workforce have also excluded them from feminism. Feminist conferences are often inaccessible, readings are often not available in braille, and videos often don't contain transcripts. In addition, feminism has a history of using ableist words like "crippled" and "handicapped" to describe women's disadvantages.

This is compared to 33 percent of woman overall. Perpetrators of sexual assault often view women with disabilities as easy targets, and victims only report three percent of assaults, often because services like ASL interpreters aren't available to them. The campus sexual assault epidemic feminists are seeking to combat is even worse for students with disabilities: 48 percent of deaf and hard-of-hearing students at one school reported unwanted sexual contact during college.

4. Black Women Are Three To Four Times More Likely To Die During Childbirth In The United States Than White Women

Women of color face a number of other race-based reproductive health disparities, including higher rates of STIs. Black women are also three times as likely as white women to experience an unintended pregnancy. In addition, immigrants are three times as likely as U.S.-born citizens to lack healthcare coverage.

Testing sites in California report a 29 percent HIV diagnosis rate for black transgender women, compared to just four percent for men who have sex with men and six percent for transgender women overall. This is likely because trans people and African Americans have less access to healthcare (largely because they are more often unemployed) and healthcare professionals often don't know how to treat them. Healthcare and other systems aren't geared toward people who subvert the gender binary, and that's a feminist issue.

Images: Jonathan McIntosh, Elias Gayles, Elliott Brown/Flickr

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5 Reasons Intersectionality Matters, Because Feminism Cannot Be Inclusive Without It

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It seems like a given that feminism should try to help all women, especially those who are most disadvantaged. But privileged women don't always realize when they're excluding less privileged groups or how this exclusion harms them - which is why...

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Have you ever heard the term intersectionality and wondered what it means? Better yet, why is it important when we're discussing the discrimination that different groups of people face? If so, this post is for you.
What Is Intersectionality?
Intersectionality is a sociological theory about how an individual can face multiple threats of discrimination when their identities overlap a number of minority classes, such as race, gender, age, ethnicity, health and other characteristics.

For example, a woman of color may face sexism in the workplace which is compounded by subtle yet pervasive racism. Extending that example further, we know that trans* women of color face exceptionally high levels of discrimination and threats of violence. Looking through the lens of intersectionality, it may not be hard to see why: they face anti-trans prejudice, sexism and misogyny, and racism, and due to the ignorance surrounding trans identity, might also face homophobia too.

While intersectionality is traditionally applied to women, it's not just women who are affected by this phenomena of overlapping minority status. A man from a Hispanic background could face xenophobia in today's America despite being a naturalized citizen, which in turn may be compounded by, for instance, a low economic status. If that Hispanic man is in his 50s, ageism might add to the discrimination he could face in trying to secure employment.

More precisely though, intersectionality describes the hierarchical nature of power and how belonging to multiple discriminated classes can mean that one's issues are ignored.
Who Came Up With the Term Intersectionality and Why?
The term intersectionality itself is attributed to legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw and her 1989 essay "Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color," though the actual notion behind intersectionality extends further back than that, with academics recognizing the problem as early as the 19th century.

Crenshaw coined the term to express the particular problems that immigrant women of color face and, crucially, why their issues were being ignored by both the feminist movement of the time, and the anti-racism movement.

Often, the problems intersectional experiences reveal is not that individual people are overtly sexist or racist, but that the legal and policy mechanisms we have in place to deal with complaints like, for instance, an immigrant woman who doesn't speak English trying to report her abusive husband, are stacked against people with a multiple minority identity by, for example, not having interpreters on hand, or not understanding enough about the woman's particular cultural heritage to understand the best way to deal with her situation.
Intersectionality Isn't Popular With Everyone
Within each separate movement, such as feminism and the anti-racism movement, there are those who say that intersectionality is actually harmful to their individual causes. The arguments against intersectionality tend to focus on a few areas. One is that intersectionality is a nonsense word and in reality doesn't describe anything. If a woman experiences racism then it is racism. If she experiences sexism then it is sexism. There is no need to overlap these, so the school of thought goes. But there is a strong body of evidence to suggest that discrimination does overlap, so while we might deal with the issues separately, denying that overlap could leave people vulnerable.

That's not to say that intersectionality as an analytical tool doesn't have its problems, however, and one of the chief ones is that for both scholars of racism and feminism, it remains a rather murkily defined tool and one that we are still struggling to effectively apply in our discussions of discrimination and how to protect multiple-minority people.

Another more general point is that looking at the smaller problems minorities within the larger movement face could rob the entire movement of its power. Answering that criticism explains quite neatly the role intersectionality can have in today's civil rights movements, and so we'll move on to that topic next.
Why Does Intersectionality Matter to Modern Civil Rights Movements?
While accepting that intersectionality needs refining as a tool, a majority of social commentators and mainstream feminist and racial justice groups believe intersectionality does have an important role to play in today's civil rights movements.

Take the gay rights movement that is often called upon to speak for the wider LGBTQA umbrella. Our figureheads are overwhelmingly white, cis-gendered, able-bodied men and women, and while that's understandable, it can be a problem. This is not to say that they themselves are discriminating against anyone at all, but rather that they are representative of only one aspect of the LGBT community - and in this case, an aspect that is very close to the majority heterosexual experience.

Seen in this way, it becomes obvious why, in particular when the media sees only this face of the LGBT rights movement, the problems that, say, LGBT Asian Americans or LGBT people with physical disabilities face might be forgotten and their goals, like changing laws for better health care or job discrimination protections, may not be achieved because of a lack of attention.

To return us to intersectionality's main focus, that being the problems that women of color face due to sexism and racism, we see this manifesting today in many ways, not least of which is in the fight for reproductive justice and how the closing of women's health clinics and the passing of antagonistic anti-abortion measures can disproportionately affect women of color, and particularly those from lower economic backgrounds.

As such, while intersectionality might not be a perfect tool, recognizing its uses and limitations does help us to ensure that we aren't overlooking the challenges people belonging to multiple minorities face as we move toward the goal of a fairer and more equal society.
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Have you ever heard the term intersectionality and wondered what it means? Better yet, why is it important when we're discussing the discrimination that different groups of people face? If so, this post is for you. What Is Intersectionality?

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This is artist and intersectional activist Michele Kaplan.

Kaplan hosts the YouTube series, Rebelwheels NYC, which addresses "all things disability."

Kaplan says the project was inspired by her observations at protests and on social media post-election, which felt devoid of recognition for the concerns of people with disabilities under a Trump administration.

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"I was perfectly welcomed at the protests, but at the same time, none of the signs included disabled people and ableism," Kaplan told BuzzFeed. "Granted, this was far from being a new problem, but it was during this time that I felt an extra helping of panic. It's way easier to oppress a demographic when they are forgotten and/or isolated - and both are applicable to the disability community."

When Kaplan started doing outreach online in attempt to raise awareness, she was reminded that most people don't even know the word "ableism," even though one instance of it gained widespread publicity leading up to the election.

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"People thought the worst thing that happened to the community was when Trump mocked disabled reporter Serge Kovaleski (which was ableism, but even most of mainstream media doesn't seem to know the word)," said Kaplan. "And as a result, a lot of people certainly had no idea that the disability community were vulnerable during the upcoming presidency."

Which is where the website came in.

Kaplan told BuzzFeed she'd like people to take two things away from the project: a better understanding of ableism and its role in intersectional activism, and an openness to help educate others.

You can see the full What Is Ableism? project here.

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This Woman Wants To Educate You About Ableism

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This is artist and intersectional activist Michele Kaplan. Kaplan hosts the YouTube series, Rebelwheels NYC, which addresses "all things disability." Which is where the website came in. Kaplan told BuzzFeed she'd like people to take two things away from the project: a better understanding of ableism and its role in intersectional activism, and an openness to help educate others.

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:( Taylor Swift should learn about intersectionality

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Make no mistake: I love Taylor Swift.

"I Knew You Were Trouble" is one of my favorite shower songs, I've cried incessantly to "All Too Well" after a breakup (and, um, every time I hear it), and I could kick your ass at "We Are Never, Ever Getting Back Together" karaoke.

By far, she's my problematic fave.

But goddamn, is she ever problematic.
And as much as I appreciate a pop artist that I love donning the feminist label, I really hate when they do so in the name of the special brand of fucked-up anti-oppression work known as White Feminism.
Now, White Feminism, for those of you who may not be aware, is not a pejorative term coined to describe all feminists that happen to be white.

Rather, White Feminism refers to the practicing of a feminism that assumes white (cis, straight, able-bodied, thin, middle-to-upper class) women as the default, actively avoiding critical analysis on any axis other than gender, thereby leading to a cookie-cutter feminism that can only possibly be useful to those it's intended for: white women.

And that's a problem.
And as much as I'm a Swifty, I'm a feminist first (and a white one, at that), and I'm not here for any kind of feminism that would excuse, for instance, Taylor's misunderstanding that race is irrelevant in pop culture politics (a la the feud with Nicki Minaj that never was).
So for those of you still confused about how Taylor's version of feminism is too, um, white to be useful, here are five examples from each of the videos that she's released in tandem with her singles off of her latest album, 1989.

1. Shake It Off

Also known as: "Women of Color Sure Can Shake It"

Taylor, people may argue you've got nothing in your brain (that's what people say, mmm mmm), and I would debate with them for sure. You're smart and savvy, and you know exactly what you're doing - which is why the world was unsurprised by both your cultural appropriation and objectification of women of color in this video.

Sure, many people have argued that, perhaps, the video isn't appropriative or objectifying, since the scenes in question (see: break dancing in a hoodie, fitted cap, and boom box; see also: twerking in short shorts and a load of jewelry) follow the same script as the rest of the video: Taylor not quite fitting in and finding herself in awe of the (more talented) dancers who surround her.

And I get that argument. Because the same joke runs throughout the video.
The question, really, is this: Taylor, is hip-hop really yours to joke about?
And when you present an image of your squeaky clean, desexualized-by-way-of-assumed-purity self literally crawling under the asses of women of color, and then laughing off how impossible it would be for you to emulate something so sexualized by the male gaze, who's the joke on, really, when you still reign triumphant (albeit awkwardly) by the end of the video?

Because there's a huge difference between appreciating and exchanging cultureand straight-up trying it on for size and then shedding it at the end of the day when that benefits you. The latter is appropriative, and it is always, always, always harmful.

2. Blank Space

Also known as: "Intimate Partner Violence Is Cute and Amusing in Some Contexts"

For the most part, I really enjoy "Blank Space" - both as a song and a video. While I wouldn't go as far as to suggest that in it, she's " the woman we've been waiting for," I most definitely do appreciate Taylor's jab at media portrayals of herself.

About the inspiration for the song, Taylor explains that "there's been a sort of sensational fictionalization of [her] personal life," whereby the media paints her as "a serial dater" who "can't keep [her love interests] because she's too emotional and she's needy." And when the relationship ends? "She goes to her evil lair and writes songs about it for revenge."

High five, Taylor Swift, for joking on that bullshit. And the song is catchy as hell. Right away, it was one of my favorites on the album.

But then the video dropped, and I was kinda like, "Um..."
Because although we can say plenty of great things about it, there's one huge problem: It trivializes dating violence. In fact, it kinda makes it look sexy.
The entire video, with the lyrics set against it, is a story about entrapping men in a fantasy world with lavish gifts and activities, only to keep them by means of what can only be described as abuse.

She drops his phone into a pool when she assumes that he's cheating. She goes on a rampage - "screaming, crying, perfect storms" - where she yells at and then pushes him. She falls apart crying, taking on the "This is all your fault," victim-blaming role. And then she threatens him with a knife not to leave, sets his clothes on fire, possibly attempts to poison him, and smashes his car.
If the tables were turned and this was a video where a man was doing this to a woman - even under the guise of a joke - no one would call it feminist or progressive.
It's scary as all hell.

But through the lens of a feminism where only straight, white women can experience intimate partner violence, it's cute and amusing that Taylor might enact revenge on her on-screen boyfriend - and serially. After all, the video ends with her snagging another man.

3. Style

Also known as: "I Have No Idea What's Happening in This Video, But It Makes Me Want to Go to the Beach"

Okay. I admit it: At first glance, I couldn't see anything vehemently, inherently anti-feminist about this video. And even in preparation for writing this article, I rewatched it, scrutinizing it for something obviously racist, homophobic, or ableist. But nothing jumps out at me in particular.
So I'll take this space to state the obvious: Every love interest that Taylor has ever had - to my knowledge, both in real life and in her videos - has been a straight, cis, able-bodied, fit, middle-to-upper class, white dude.
And while it's in Taylor's right to be attracted to and date whomever suits her fancy, her ivory tower fantasy worlds aren't doing much to push back against systemic oppression - which, like, is what feminists are supposed to do.

4. Bad Blood

Also known as: "Squad Goals - If You're Only Friends with White Women"

Look. The video has Lena Dunham in it. Need I say more?

Anyone who calls themselves a feminist after learning about the movement from, of all people, Lena Dunham, is not to be trusted. I mean, she actually had to be called out for not including any women of color in a TV show based in New York City. And I think she passed that same oversight to Tay, because I'm really not sure Taylor has any friends of color.

And if you watch the "Bad Blood" music video - which is supposed to be a miniature action movie about girl gangs - the evidence is clear.

Sure, Taylor includes both Selena Gomez and Zendaya in the video, as well as other women of color, but here's the problem: Selena, admittedly one of Taylor's best friends, herself has been known to perpetuate White Feminism via cultural appropriation. And while Zendaya consistently says on-point, feminist things, I'm not buying the notion that her relationship with Taylor is really that close. Their relationship feels a little, well, "this is my black friend" to me.

The issue isn't the video in and of itself (you could argue that considering his feature, Kendrick Lamar - a black man - gets plenty of screen time to offset the blizzard of whiteness). The problem is how the video highlights one of Taylor Swift's biggest problems as a feminist IRL: She constantly surrounds herself with beautiful, thin, rich, famous, white women.
And personally, I don't trust fellow white people when their only friends are other white people.
And has anyone else noticed that the more Taylor gets called out for her White Feminism, the more people of color are popping up as guests on her tour?

That's not friendship. That's not authenticity. That's not intersectionality. That's PR.

5. Wildest Dreams

Also known as: "The Colonization of Africa Was Très Romantic"

Um, okay.

Taylor's latest video takes place on a 1950s-era movie set on desert plains in what is judged, based on the wildlife, to be an unnamed, overgeneralized "African" country - without a single person of color to be seen.

But there were plenty of zebras! And giraffes! And a really calm lion who just hangs out on set all day!
But as if the implication that all "Africa" (an entire continent, mind you, not a country) consists of is stunning landscape views and wildlife safaris isn't bad enough, the video calls to mind European imperialism and the "Scramble for Africa" - but, like, romantically.
Zoé Samudzi (who is brilliant - please, please, please go follow her on Twitter) deconstructed this video perfectly as "[t]he romanticization of an era of white domination (through violent conquest [and] genocide) because of beautiful aesthestic" and "the literal use of black Africanness as a cultural aesthetic sans the employment of black bodies who created and deeply embody them."

That is to say, the biggest problem with "Wildest Dreams" is that it isn't. It isn't a wild dream. It's a direct representation of historical accuracy: the colonization of Africa, through the eyes of the colonizer.
And if you don't think that - of all things - colonization is racist, then I fear that you're suffering from White Feminism, too.
The video for "Wildest Dreams" perfectly demonstrates the ways in which Taylor continually misses the mark: By seeing life through only her experience (and that of those similarly sociopolitically positioned), she's unable to notice - let alone prioritize - the needs of the most marginalized. So her feminism only helps herself.

That's White Feminism.
Melissa A. Fabello, Co-Managing Editor of Everyday Feminism, is a sexuality educator, eating disorder and body image activist, and media literacy vlogger based out of Philadelphia. She enjoys rainy days, Jurassic Park, and the occasional Taylor Swift song and can be found on YouTube and Tumblr. She holds a B.S. in English Education from Boston University and an M.Ed. in Human Sexuality from Widener University. She is currently working on her PhD. She can be reached on Twitter @fyeahmfabello.

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Make no mistake: I love Taylor Swift. "I Knew You Were Trouble" is one of my favorite shower songs, I've cried incessantly to "All Too Well" after a breakup (and, um, every time I hear it), and I could kick your ass at "We Are Never, Ever Getting Back Together" karaoke.

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Intersectionality is the combination of various social privileges that define a persons experience. It is the idea that race, gender and class work together to tell someone's story. They are all combined ideas and work together. It is making cookies, each social aspect is an ingredient. They can stand on their own but when combined together it makes the final product- a beautiful warm unique cookie, and no two cookies are the same. Each type of cookie changes depending on the types of ingredients put in. Much like every person is different depending on what advantages and challenges they are given.

Intersectionality explains that a woman has a different experience from a man, but a Latino woman has a different experience from a white woman and a bisexual white woman has a different experience from a straight white woman.

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One way male's have privilege is they are able to show their full exposed chest without social consequences. In the original photograph, the person with breasts was not censored but I censored it for this assignment to make it more school appropriate. And that just shows my point of privilege more.

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Mansplaining

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Check your privilege

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Quite a bit changed for me over the first couple of years I started testosterone. My health and mental wellbeing improved, my happy button [clitoris] grew over an inch in length, my natural musk became so fragrant that now I gross even myself out if I don't shower pretty much every day (no deodorant can contain this beast).

So many awesome, big-deal body changes and mind improvements flourished. Then there were the smaller, odder things: I finally gained an appreciation for peanut butter and chocolate, my favorite colour went from blue to green, my most hated school subject suddenly became a favoured pastime.

All sorts of things, from the big to the small, altered themselves. I was indeed exactly the same person as I'd always been, just the 2.0 version. But just as fascinating as it was to witness my mental and physical changes, it was just as equal of an adjustment to comprehend how other people were responding to me.

In short, I was being treated better by everyday America because people were reading me as a young, white, straight (?!) male. And I recognized many new privileges that came my way because of it.
1. I'm suddenly funny.
I've always been dry, sarcastic, and satirical with my humour. In Ye Olden Times, I was considered unfunny at best - and a bitch at worst. Now that I'm a short white guy, people automatically peg me for a comedian and laugh at the bulk of my mouth zings. But nothing has changed. I've even recycled some of my old material that people didn't find funny before just to make sure.
2. Yet I'm still taken (more) seriously.
I'm still amazed at the amount of people that now immediately shut their mouths the second I open mine. Believe me, my ideas haven't improved at all. I've even tried to derail serious conversations with ludicrous stuff just to see what would happen - and I'd still be regarded highly.
3. I rarely get interrupted.
I used to be interrupted so often while presenting as a woman that I in turn started to talk over people as a form of conversational survival. Unfortunately, because it became so ingrained in me, I still find myself doing it from time to time even though it's rarely necessary any more.
4. I get paid more.
The proof is in my paychecks. Actual, numerical proof.
5. It's easier for me to be poor.
Aside from usually getting paid more, it's been easier to find work when the person doing the hiring is a white guy. It's like helping out a buddy or something.
6. My clothing is more practical.
And better made and longer lasting and cheaper and less judged.
7. I get a ton of free passes.
For the record, I've never done anything horrific enough to invoke the all-saving phrase of "Boys will be boys," but I often forget to watch my mouth in front of superiors and authority figures. And while I was getting into tons of trouble for the smallest thing through school and my earliest jobs, these days I can't recall a single time I've been called out or reprimanded.
8. I'm not held accountable for keeping rape from happening.
I remember all of the rape prevention education I got, which always focused on how I should behave, where I should walk when, how to appropriately cover my drink, and so on. These days, I'm told nothing. Not even not to rape.
9. I'm very likely to arrive home safely after walking alone at night.
Assuming nobody is out looking to fag-bash, but that's a somewhat different matter. It remains that I walk alone at night far more than I used to purely because I'm a dude. Put up my hoodie, and people have even been known to cross the sidewalk to avoid passing me.
10. I don't have to worry about keeping an eye on my drink at parties.
Unless it's at a gay venue where there seem to be some questionable, creepy chickenhawks around, drink safety doesn't even cross my mind any more.
11. I'm not told by strangers (or anybody else) to smile.
Not once has it happened since. Not once.
12. I don't have strangers giving uninvited opinions about my body as I pass by.
(Or then expecting me to thank them for it.) Again, not once has this happened in the usual, everyday world.
13. I'm allowed to have body hair.
'Nuff said.
14. I'm allowed to grow old.
And likely will even be considered "handsome" or "sophisticated" because of it.
15. I'm allowed to eat without being policed.
I'm actually still really damn skinny, but people no longer do things like judge me about what I'm eating or ask if I should be eating it at all.
16. My abilities speak louder than my appearances at work.
When I work on-site gigs, I tend to just wear jeans and a T-shirt. Nobody cares. It's all about the quality of my work.
17. The bulk of porn is made with me in mind.
Well, the general sense of a guy who has any sexual interest in women. Even "lesbian" porn is often geared toward the male gaze.
18. Older white guys treat me like a best friend.
Especially when I have to wear professional slacks and a tie, I've been amazed at how many strangers happily strike up conversation with me in this kind of...fatherly way. Their smiles are warm, their eyes are bright, and they seem eager to bestow any wisdom upon me that I could ever think to ask. It's like I'm automatically their patriarchal protégé or something.
19. I can be a gamer without worry of being threatened, insulted, or demeaned.
The gaming industry is still very much a man's world. Female characters are frequently sexualised, brutalised, and demeaned when they're represented at all - right along with the female gamers themselves.
20. My comfort comes before anyone else's.
Nobody expects me to sacrifice a thing for them any more.
21. I have significantly less sexual liability.
I can now have as much sex with as many people as I want and nobody says boo about it.
22. I'm allowed to take up space - and lots of it.
If I feel like spreading out on public transportation, nobody - regardless of gender - tells me to move over any more. They just act like I have full right to be obnoxious. (Please note that I've only ever done this for experimental purposes.)
23. I'm not subject to "soft" sexism.
Being asked to grab someone their coffee, help decorate for a work party, or help clean up said party is simply a thing of the past.
24. People think my successes have been made purely by my own gumption.
I've worked hard, sure, but I've also had plenty of luck and help. People just don't question my supposed right to be praised any more, nor imply that I earned what I earned by playing some sort of card. My same exact successes are somehow now all me, all hard-earned, and all things that had absolutely nothing to do with the cultural system we have in place.
25. I can say the most ridiculous things imaginable.
And people will still think I'm right. Seriously. I've tested this.

I would go on, but you know, space issues. But the above examples poured out of me just about as fast as I could type them. Having been treated as both a man and a woman, these privileges are glaringly obvious to me. And there are far, far too many to count.

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25 Examples Of Male Privilege From A Trans Guy's Perspective

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Quite a bit changed for me over the first couple of years I started testosterone. My health and mental wellbeing improved, my happy button [clitoris] grew over an inch in length, my natural musk became so fragrant that now I gross even myself out if I don't shower pretty much every day (no deodorant can contain this beast).

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Privilege is having something that makes you "better off" even if you did not ask for this quality. Privilege comes with power. Men have more power over women socially. White people have more privilege than people of color.  These are two examples of privilege that was no asked for. Privilege can be related to political views, and religious preferences as well. Privilege is socially created when one party has more power than another. Whether the first party is aware or asked for this power.

Male privilege is shown through many small things throughout ones lifetime. One example is in schools if a young women wears a shirt that shows her shoulders or a skirt that shows her legs, she can get sent home from school for "distracting" boys. This shows privilege because in this example boys' education and right to school had become more important that the young woman who wore something she felt comfortable in.

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If gender is based on genitalia. What about the transfolks? The strong belief of what is a "boy" and "girl" is what makes our culture uninviting to those who don't want to be identified by what is in their pants.

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This is Ren. Ren is a popular male Korean singer. He does not fit the male standards that society constructed but he is still male.

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“the only thing
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identify
as one.

- period, end of story.”
-Amanda Lovelace (2016)

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The definition actually states that gender is based on social differences not biologic

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Gender is constructed by society because what actually makes a boy? Is it having something between his legs? Is it the ability to be in the "act like a man box"?  Society is what made up these rules of what makes someone manly, or womenly in the other end of the spectrum? Society decided that women needed to be thin and pretty and polite and that those traits are what make someone a women.
Gender is constructed by society because unless you are seen naked there is no way to know what someone is hiding under their clothes. Because we don't walk around naked, the only way to know if someone is male or female is how well they conform to standards made by society.

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Feminism empowers women to stand together.

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This is important because some of the things that are misogynistic are ingrained into our society and are what are expected.

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SJW Laci Green Files False Copyright Claim Against Conservative Critic

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Whether it's promoting rape culture, problems with sexual assault, dangerous levels of hazing or just a general misogyny and sexism, frats can be a pretty toxic place. So what would it be like if fraternities were feminist? Watch the episode to find out.

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10 hours of walking but this time she talks back (BEST CATCALL  parody)

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We can't have equality if the men are in charge

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* Equality
First and foremost, as defined by Oxford English Dictionary feminism is the "advocacy of equality of the sexes". Feminism starts with the idea that all members of both sexes are equal no matter their gender. Equality says that no matter the gender, sexual orientation, looks, and opinion sof others we are all equal. It is called feminism and not equal rights becasue although we are all fighting for equality for everyone, women are the ones who need the most help social and politically. We are the worst off.
* Freedom
Feminism means freedom. Freedom for a woman to dress how she wants and be out as late as she wants with whomever she wants. It is the idea that women can dress in clothing that makes them comfortable, no matte rhow much or how little she wants and not get objectified by it. She can go out at night with a guy and not get harmed, cat-called or raped- and if that happens she should no be told that she was "asking for it".
* Empowering
Feminism is empowering because it gives women a chance to stand together. It encourages women to stand together as equals and allies to each other instead of tearing one another down. For example the women's march. Thousands of women all stood and marched together for a common goal. They were allies and they did not worry about who was better than them and they did not act petty and pit women against each other. They were standing together. Standing empowered for a cause.

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If women can wear pants then men can wear skirts

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Queens can dress however they feel comfortable thanks to feminism