This is what a feminist looks like

Ive spent some time thinking about politics lately.
I was a feminist first through a sense of natural justice; later I became embroiled in socialism. Many years later, idealism and romantiscm honed by experience, I would call myself a liberal democrat (small l, small d).
My youngest daughter, almost 18, thinks of feminists as hairy legged, butch man-haters. This made me so sad and also made me think a lot about how the far-left adopted feminsim and distorted it into their creature as they do with any passing popular band wagon (take the stop the war coalition - the strangest of bedfellows).You dont have to be a socialist to be a feminist, feminism and capitalism are not mutually exclusive.
Feminism is ' the radical notion that women are people', and what it has given me is choices, the ability to work and earn the same as the man standing next to me, the choice to stay home with my babies when they were small, the choice to have an education, to be treated as an equal and finally the choice to retire from it all and be a homemaker when the time was right for me.
Feminism doesnt force me to work in a traditionally men's job, though women scientists (like the afore mentioned daughter) and engineers are there because of it, it doesnt force me to have an abortion, though it ensures I could have one safely if I had to make that terrible choice, it doesnt force me not to nurture my family and knit and cook, but it means no-one expects me to if it's not in my nature.
 










 
 
“For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft...” —1st Samuel 15:23
 A badge we used to wear in the 80s said ' Wicked witches were invented by frightened men'. How secretive and frightening women must have seemed to men historically, excluded from child birth and its mysteries, and the vaguaries of the female body. Not party to the vast knowledge of herbs that women shared - it's easy to see how some women were thought to be witches. Feminism is not just about women, through it men have been liberated too, to truely share the world together - different therefore equal.