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I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately (I’ve no idea why), so I figured I’d share it with all of you and see what you had to say about it…
Restaurant commercials (the ones that feature customers, at least) all have one thing in common: coffee drinking mothers laughing at their silly dessert eating families. Now, I had never really noticed this until my mother pointed it out to me, saying that it bothered her. This was a big deal, because my mother is borderline anti-feminist and for something sexist to bother her is major, so I started to watch. These commercials always feature a mom, a dad, and one (sometimes two) kids. The mom is always extremely well ...

I hate the boyfriend ultimatum. The “if you don’t marry me, I’m leaving” one. This ultimatum always seems to come up (about) twice per year, once at Valentine’s Day (yeah I’m late, but whatever) and again when girlfriends are talking about another girl, whether she be there or not, who’s in a long term relationship. During February the ultimatum always comes up on talk shows titled: How to get Him to Marry You, not only are these episodes sexist, they are, in most cases stupid. But I can live with those; it’s the second case that really bothers me. I am in my early 20’s, so I know a lot of people who are getting engaged and married.

About a year ago I was taking an English class that involved reading a story called “The Yellow Wallpaper.” For those of you who aren’t familiar with the story, it’s about a Victorian woman, Jane who has a nervous break down just after having a baby, which involves pealing off all of the yellow wallpaper from her walls. This is an early piece of feminist literature, as the breakdown she suffers occurs due to the way her husband locks her up in a single room. During the class discussion of this book feminism came up (obviously). And one man in the class (who had proved he was a misogynist previously) brought up a point: because Jane didn’t want to be ...