1.Do the author’s survey results indicate that feminism is, by and large, a dirty word for her fellow students? What in the essay makes you agree or disagree?
By the author’s results I believe that feminism is not a “dirty” word among her fellow students, you can see this in paragraph two where she says “in-fact only one person said that feminism was a bunch of radical women who hate everything about men and blame them for everything bad in the world.” She also stated that most of the people said that feminism was a good thing.
2.What reasons does Libby offer why there are not more self identified feminists?
Many males she talked to said that they couldn’t be feminist because they were male and feminism was only for women, some said that even though they agreed with the ideas of feminism they couldn’t call themselves feminists because they weren’t actively doing anything about it. Also some people said that sexism, sex exploitation and oppression don’t exist in our society anymore. Another reason is the negative connotation attached to the word. Others said that they didn’t care about the issue and one person responded that “titles freak her/him out”.
3.Why does she think more people should identify themselves as feminist?
She thinks that more people should identify themselves as feminist because both men and women are victims of sexism and sex exploitation.
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