Everyone is different

I felt like the conversation with Shark Fu was interesting because it took on the light of a black female feminist in today’s society. She seemed to speak of only the black perspective and looking back into what we learned in the book it is easy to see why. Feminism isn’t only for women but in the second wave of feminism and throughout most of the waves there were only the views of white middle class women. So it is easy to see why shark Fu wants to explain feminism from a colored person’s point of view. In liberal feminism it shows that middle class white women fought for the equality of women in general. This highlighted the book called The Feminine Mystique by Friedan, which states the problem those middle class white women felt by not being able to peruse personal development because of political reasons (81). Shark Fu is basically doing the same thing but from the perspective of a black woman, she is fighting for the personal development of black women in America. When asked if her voice is for everyone she stated no, but at the same time she respects and fights for people in other countries, like Syria and Egypt. This seems a little bit hypocritical because of the fact that she isn’t looking toward using her voice for everyone just black women. It is understandable though, in this class we have learned that feminism isn’t just for women but for the fight of equality for everyone. This must be something that has spun out of the third wave because listening to ted talk’s feminist speaker and Shark Fu it seems like everyone has their own individual opinion on what feminism means. Before this class I thought the same thing that many people think, feminism is for women that hate men. Now I feel like feminism is made as an outlet for people to describe and speak about what they feel is equality for whomever they feel needs equality at the time.