The traditionally culturally acceptable choice is the easier choice.

It's easier in the sense that you won't be criticized (by the other tradition-followers) if you choose the traditional role/choice/career/whatever, but I think most of the time now you *can* make the other choices. You're just going to be asked to explain yourself more often, which is also your choice to do or not.

I have had many, many other women tell me that I'm "too girly" to be a "real" feminist.

rolls eyes forever.

Anyone who insists on those kinds of labels is not, as far as I'm concerned, working in any sort of ideological or political framework that I wish to be a part of.

In conclusion, people be crazy everywhere and affix personal agendas to all sorts of ideas, why should feminists be any different?

Men being feminists- I don't have a problem with it, but it does sound weird sometimes, depending on context, when they self-identify. Sometimes it pings the "Some of my best friends are black/gay/Asian/etc" tone that makes me take a second look to see if it's sincere. It seems almost radically political to affix that specific descriptor to a dude. Which is fine.

Note: my views do not claim to represent any brand or subsection of feminism. Just... Noraism, I guess. Liberal-white-lady-ism? Beerism?

I think I last shaved my legs in 1988. I shave my armpits occasionally, when it's warm enough to wear tank tops and sleeveless dresses (which in San Francisco is approximately never). Most of the hair everywhere except right on my head is extremely faint to nonexistent, though, so I can't really front that it's a big feminist stance on my part. I *hope* it would be even if I were super-hairy, but I have no way of knowing.

There were two French girls in my high school, all effortlessly elegant with interesting cheekbones and long perfect hair, and they both had very hairy legs that they stubbornly kept not shaving, all through high school, just as if they were back in Paris. I remember thinking they were both seriously badass, though now I wonder if they either never noticed at all or just thought all the USian girls were insane.

Sometimes I see on Pinterest stuff like a picture of a vintage dress or a vintage apron and a message "I'm a bad feminist because I like aprons."

Or something like "I can't be a feminist because I want to be housewife."

Which, you know, if it's your choice and desire to be housewife and like aprons then it's not anti feminist.

As for the legs - my legs are super hairy and it's fairly visible so I shave, mostly. Although badly and I didn't shave my legs during winter. Will doesn't care. But it's hard to shave them in my current shower set up. So I bought an electric razor and it's not enough to get it smooth. But I can sit on the couch, watch tv, shave my legs until there's some very visible stubble.

Then it wouldn't be choice feminism, would it? I thought the whole point of the choice was to retain the traditional as a choice. Of course the new stuff is available..it's feminism. Disliking the choice, as far as I understood, meant disliking that corsets were still an option. That's the only way it differs, after all.

Or have I been misunderstanding this whole time and misusing the term choice feminism? Whoops! Faux pas!

cause me to leave my cave; noting taken away from the glowy box people at ALL

JenP - I'm queen of the cave right now, and will likely be so until this project is done - so I hear you completely. I have a friend who comes by to get me for lunch, which saves me.

You and I will get together next week for coffee.

Okay, having checked, flea, I am confused. Choice feminism technically does have more options. That's why it's called what it's called. I'm not sure what you mean by adding even more. Which others?

I have a friend who comes by to get me for lunch, which saves me.

Right?? Those people who force me out into day (or night) light... or we mutually force each other out... those peeps are key.

I loved how askye randomly met a woman in a store, and they exchanged numbers and are going to get together. I aspire to things like that.

My friend made me have a drink tonight, which was a good idea, but I am still crabby! Bah.

elementary science definitions for $500, please

"the series of acts or operations performed in the making of something" - 9 letters