I am......a Feminist?

Define what a feminist is. Tell me exactly what the main ideals are in feminist theory. Can you? I sure can't. There are so many aspects and different theories that are thrown into this theory its hard to just give one simple and basic response to these type of questions.

Personally before  talking about it in class and reading the guest post, I thought of feminist and the concept of feminism as one sided. Being a female myself, I am most definitely down for women empowerment and having us viewed on an equilibrium to everyone else (men) in society. But, I wasn't too fond of the whole men vs. women concept and only focusing on the category of women when there are way more injustices out in the world. 

I've always agreed with the concept of knowing where you've been in order to know where you're going. Learning the history of anything pertaining to your identity is always crucial. Especially in trying to figure out how to fix the wrong doings of today. In feminist history, we evaluate our comparisons especially to men which usually confirm our position in society. "The false representations of women reaffirms women's subordinate position in culture" (Krouse). I do sort of agree with what Woolf said about how women writers have to "kill the angel in the house who tell them they can't write." Now in this case, the angel is being represented by masculinity and the male figure, but i think this concept can and should be applied to life in general. No one person or group of people should dictate to you what you are capable of doing or try to handicap our ability to voice our own opinions of anything. It goes beyond just gender, but is also present among races, cultures, and social classes. Not to necessarily associate this with feminism, but just the idea of learning how to listen to the voice within ourselves and learning to appreciate all types of theories, even if indifferent to what we believe, can be beneficial to every type of individual.