Hey everyone! It’s your pro-feminist friend ElFeministo, back for another year of feminist discourse! I’m back to further my feminist rhetoric and learn more about how to live a feminist life!
So if you remember me from my previous posts, I was literally fresh to the philosophy of feminism and what it meant to be a feminist. Since then it’s been a long journey of understanding a side of life I had formerly been blind to.
In my hiatus from ShoutOut I’ve been reading a lot, talking to people, and figuring out what my niche is and what fires me up, so get ready because I’m about to dive right in.
I’ve recently been reading Manifesta and a lot from The Good Men’s Project. Not only have both been really informative, but pleasingly entertaining. If you or someone you know is new to feminism, or are interested in deepening your understanding and developing your feminist voice I would definitely recommend both!
Over the summer I realized that I’m really interested in fatherhood. Seriously, like, I think I’ve thought more about being a dad than most of my married friends. There’s something about raising a child of tomorrow that’s exciting. Plus, there’s something about raising a child well, like being an involved father that just sounds badass to me! I’m definitely going to talk about that and men’s roles within society in my future posts.
On that note, I think you can expect I’m going to vent A LOT about my frustrations with men in college. Actually, you can probably trust it’ll be men, in general, within society.
Having my feminist eyes open throughout the summer was, … well, … eye opening.
I noticed so many things men around me said or did that shocked, saddened, infuriated, embittered, and confused me, and I think it’s important to bring those to the table to hopefully make sense of it all, and hear what you as the readers may think about it.
As a teaser, I’m definitely going to chat it up about my housemates and kind of use them as a driving focus group – a house with eight other guys, what could possibly go wrong?
(Answer: everything.)
But in all honesty they’ve taught me so much about how to actively participate in feminist discourse daily, just by talking to them openly about what a feminist looks like and why the things they (and admittedly I too) participate in is repressive to other groups of people. I hope that by bringing some life experiences into view I can encourage other men to have an open dialogue as to what feminism (really) means and how men can be apart of it!
In summery, I’m super pumped about returning to ShoutOut and to be exploring feminism with you all again! Be sure to check out our fresh writers too because they’re literally awesome and I’m extremely excited to see what they have to write!
Let me know in the comments if there’s anything you want me to touch on in a post or two, or otherwise just say hi! (I’ve actually missed y’all a lot!)
ShoutOut! James Madison University 
Can’t wait to read about your roommate difficulties! I could barely handle the three I had let alone eight!
LikeLike
Now that I know that you’re interested in fatherhood stuff–I have a different book I want to loan you! This is a really evolving area of society right now–and rightfully so! When I was a kid a father of one of my friend’s would say he had to “babysit the kids”–the inner-not-yet-identified-feminist in me thought that was bullshit then and even more so now:)
LikeLike
Oh yes please! That would be awesome! I’m fascinated listening to my friends talk about their parents, either positively or negatively, and what they consider is good or bad parenting through inherent glorification or critique. I’ve come to learn the importance of being a committed and involved father and husband, and I hope through my development in this course I can learn how the field is growing and who’s leading the charge in reshaping the roles of both.
LikeLike