reading response

In the text "Feminists Shouldn't Be a Dirty Word," by Christina Libby I disagree that feminism was being discriminated on, because in her essay she states that the random students she interviewed agreed that they weren't feminist but also said they weren't against feminist ideas. I wasn't convinced enough that feminism was marked as a "dirty word." Libby seemed to implied, to me, that she expected everyone to have a straight answer on her question, rather than being ignorant about it. I feel that the students couldn't answer her question was because they didn't really know the concept of feminism to acknowledge whether they feminists or not feminists. The lack of knowledge from the students is what frustrates Libby the most because that would be the reason why she couldn't get a straight answer. Libby although does provide reasons why there are not more self identified feminists. She mentions the views that other people give towards it, how some see it as a group of "man-haters." There are views on the type of characteristics they have that they are ferocious, passionate, loud. Many others who are mostly men say that it is only for womyn. Because of the word feme the random public automatically assume that it is limited to only womyn, and womyn only. Libby feels that more people should identify themselves as feminists because feminism is all about giving people a choice, giving people opportunities that don't suppress them by sexism, sex exploitation and any other kind of oppression. Libby wants the random people she interviewed to know that just because feminists are majority of womyn, mostly womyn who felt that oppression or were ruled over that oppression because of their gender doesn't mean that men cant feel that same way. She means that men are open to feminism because it affects them too, that men can be oppressed by their gender, sex exploitation and sexism. She wants people to know that feminism is a group of PEOPLE that give those who are oppressed in any way a choice.