{"id":377,"date":"2017-10-19T08:50:25","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T14:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh17fall.amandadvite.com\/?p=91"},"modified":"2017-10-19T08:50:25","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T14:50:25","slug":"a-reflection-of-todays-version-of-feminism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briancroxall.net\/f17dh\/student-posts\/a-reflection-of-todays-version-of-feminism\/","title":{"rendered":"A Reflection of Today\u2019s Version of Feminism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reading The World’s Wife<\/em> was a similar struggle to reading Standing Female Nude<\/em>. I was uncomfortable with much of the content, and many poems made me really despise the people in them, whether that was the speaker or the person that the speaker was talking about. Not all the poems were this way for me, but most of them.<\/p>\n

My thought throughout much of this, though, was that this is a very feminist book. I know that the term “feminism” is thrown around a lot these days, so I hope I don’t come across as another person using the word just for the sake of using it.<\/p>\n

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Source:\u00a0https:\/\/www.bustle.com\/articles\/107846-13-hilarious-feminist-memes-ready-for-you-to-whip-out-when-you-need-to-shut-down<\/p>\n

Technically, feminism is advocating that women should have the same rights as men, but a lot of people think it’s something more extreme because of the way people use it. This book felt like that extreme version of feminism to me. It felt like a lot of angry, sad women who were that way because of something a man did to them. Not all of the men did things on purpose (for example, Lazarus didn’t die on purpose to make Mrs. Lazarus so depressed, or at least that’s how the Bible version goes…but who knows, maybe in this version he committed suicide), but men seemed to the be common trigger for the anger or sorrow described by the women in these poems.<\/p>\n

What gave me this impression of extreme feminism is the way that the women were masculinized. A lot of them talked about how good the sex is and that they were the ones in charge during sexual encounters (like in “Mrs. Beast”), which is usually a trait associated with men (I’m not saying that’s true about all men, but unfortunately the world portrays men this way so it is seen as a masculine trait). A lot of the women used weapons, which is something men and women both do but is, again, mostly associated with men. I mean, in “Little Red-Cap” there’s not even a huntsman or lumberjack to kill the wolf – she does it herself! The man is entirely removed from this story.<\/p>\n

Not all the poems are this extreme version of feminism, but that was the feeling I came away with after finishing the book. There are poems about loss and love that are sweet and, frankly, more feminine. I guess Duffy wanted to portray these woman characters from myth, legend, and life in a different way, and the way I felt like she did that was by making them quite feminist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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