{"id":258,"date":"2005-04-04T12:08:11","date_gmt":"2005-04-04T20:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/?p=258"},"modified":"2005-04-04T12:08:11","modified_gmt":"2005-04-04T20:08:11","slug":"i-emamem-a-feminist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/?p=258","title":{"rendered":"I <em>am<\/em> a feminist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are advantages to living in a small country. If I was in America or even England and saw that someone whose work I admire and whose blog I read regularly was  speaking somewhere, chances are it would be 1,000s of miles away and I wouldn&#8217;t be able to get to it.<\/p>\n<p>In Israel, on the other hand, when <a href=\"http:\/\/jerusalemsyndrome.blogspot.com\/\">Danya<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/jerusalemsyndrome.blogspot.com\/2005\/04\/weeks-report.html\">mentions<\/a> that she will be talking about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yentlsrevenge.com\/\">her book<\/a>, it&#8217;s happening 10 minutes drive away from my house, and I could go along and even did the full groupie thing and got her to sign my copy afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, though, something she said gave me a big <span lang=\"he-latn\">hhizzuk<\/span> which I will always be thankful for. I literally drank in feminism with my mother&#8217;s milk <span class=\"note\">though I should note that my mother <span lang=\"he\">\u05e2\u05f4\u05d4<\/span> would never have let me get away with using &#8220;literally&#8221; like that. I used to claim that I didn&#8217;t mean &#8220;literally&#8221; literally, but she wasn&#8217;t convinced.<\/span>, but when I was growing up in the 1970s, there was a very strong vibe in publications like <cite>Spare Rib<\/cite> that &#8220;only a women can be a feminist&#8221; which has ever since made me describe myself with half-hearted terms like &#8220;a supporter of feminism&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>So it made a big impression on me when Danya firmly contradicted that and said something to the effect of &#8220;feminism is for everybody&#8221;. From now on, I am out of the closet and identifying myself as a feminist, with no more weasling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are advantages to living in a small country. If I was in America or even England and saw that someone whose work I admire and whose blog I read regularly was speaking somewhere, chances are it would be 1,000s of miles away and I wouldn&#8217;t be able to get to it. In Israel, on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}