So, I am a nominee for president of my local feminist organization and I had to answer two questions. I am oging to post the questions and the answers to them here and I want you all to be honest with me and tell me if you feel they answer the questions well.
1. What is your definition of feminism? (Since OW is the campus
feminist organization, what does this term mean to you?)
To me, feminism is choice. Simply put feminism has a different meaning from individual to individual, obviously there are going to be similarities in belief between one persons choice and another persons choice. For myself personally, feminism is; and always has been the right of a woman to choose who she is and where she fits in society. I believe that it is the essential right of every woman to be who she chooses, whether that be a housewife or an executive, someone who defines her own place in this world and not just what her assumed role should be.
2. If you became next year's president, what would you like to see
OW do during 2006-7? (In what direction would you take the
organization?)
I would like to see OW reaching out to the people on this campus and community who are either a) unaware of our presence as anything less than a radical group of women activists or b) simply do not realize that we do exist and are here to help raise awareness of womens rights, gender roles; and how we can change them to better ourselves and society; because I believe that one person can make a difference in the life of another person. If each of us reached out and made a difference to one person; and they in turn reached out and made a difference to another person think of the accomplishment there and know that change is what we make of it.
1. What is your definition of feminism? (Since OW is the campus
feminist organization, what does this term mean to you?)
To me, feminism is choice. Simply put feminism has a different meaning from individual to individual, obviously there are going to be similarities in belief between one persons choice and another persons choice. For myself personally, feminism is; and always has been the right of a woman to choose who she is and where she fits in society. I believe that it is the essential right of every woman to be who she chooses, whether that be a housewife or an executive, someone who defines her own place in this world and not just what her assumed role should be.
2. If you became next year's president, what would you like to see
OW do during 2006-7? (In what direction would you take the
organization?)
I would like to see OW reaching out to the people on this campus and community who are either a) unaware of our presence as anything less than a radical group of women activists or b) simply do not realize that we do exist and are here to help raise awareness of womens rights, gender roles; and how we can change them to better ourselves and society; because I believe that one person can make a difference in the life of another person. If each of us reached out and made a difference to one person; and they in turn reached out and made a difference to another person think of the accomplishment there and know that change is what we make of it.
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shimmer:
best of luck to u sweetie! let us all know how it goes!