Feminism gets a bad rap. It's difficult for me to express feminism without being made fun of. I'm considering buying and wearing that "So you're a feminist? How Cute!" shirt around campus as a joke. Abercrombie sells a male's shirt that's funny-- it says "sports women beer" on it. I'm female, but I think it would be funny if I wore that "sports women beer" shirt. Everyone hates feminists nowadays. I don't know why people hate feminists so much, when they are fighting for a good cause. Why don't we make fun of sexist, racist, homophobic, and heterosexist people instead? We should face the truth that we live in a sexist, racist, homophobic, and heterosexist world. There are elegant ways of making a difference in the world... The student who took offense at the shirt reacted normally. If I were her, I would have worn the shirt and claimed the sexism over myself (like when african americans call themselves 'niggers' and when people from the LGBTQQ community embrace the word "queer"). I really like this quote (my cousin and his friends came up with it), "The only way to be free is to realize you are trapped." Feminism is really cool-- too bad the media makes it seem like such a negative thing. If more women and men embraced the word "feminist" instead of buying into the stereotypes, we'd be headed towards a better future: a sexually-nonviolent society where males don't have to prove their masculinity, females don't have to prevent themselves from walking the streets at night, affirmative action is seen as necessary, and the LGBTQQ community can be LGBTQQ without being HATED so much. We don't have to feel so isolated all the time if we study the most oppressed people on the planet(females, people of color, the sexually deviant, males are oppressed too except they hold more power over others). The world doesn't have to be such a fucked up place. It can change! I'm majoring in Women's Studies and Sociology, but I'm thinking of switching it to a double major in Women's Studies and African American Studies and minoring in Sociology. I feel like I have a responsibility to understand why we are all so racist, sexist, homophobic, and heterosexist. Rape and sexual harrassment... feeling nervous around males... alcoholism, loneliness, the desire to be white (aka "normal"), porn-addiction, feeling awkward around people who are different from me... looking at females like they're bodies and nothing else... I sure as hell don't feel free. I like helping other people. My life job from now on is to educate myself on sexism and racism and how we can change it. Sexism and racism isn't a bunch of isolated incidents (it's not that some people are bad apples and some are good apples). We're all in it together... we all keep the sexism/racism/heterosexism/homophobia going by denying that it's there. I acknowledge my own prejudices, all the internalized hate I've been raised to believe in. I'm female and even I'm MISOGYNISTIC and sexually violent in my imagination... I'm considered the "victim" in society, and even I can picture sexually violent scenarios, I can project hatred towards almost anyone.