Alright, so in the picture below, I have a portion of the syllabus that stood out to me about my new English class. I was looking over the lessons we will learn this year, and this one unit stood out to me in particular, titled "The Media and Gender Roles in America". Naturally, this peaked my interest. The "inquiry questions" all seemed a bit like something that would seem almost rhetorical to feminists, but I still didn't have too much of a problem with it. Then, I came across the question I was looking for. "What is feminism?", it read. It all made sense to me now. This is feminism for a grade. If you will see, there are "works" we will be reviewing, such as the feminist documentary, "Miss Representation", the poem "Barbie Doll" by Marge Piercy that implies that only women are subject to standards by society (whether or not they are unrealistic is up for debate), either excerpts from a feminist literature piece or the whole thing, it has many videos by Emma Watson (presumably the HeForShe campaign speech), Joseph Gordon Levitt, and the Run Like a Girl commercial. After this, we are to "redesign an advertisement with a negative gender stereotype and presentation". I will admit, this is not too bad. But this is the kicker. We are to have a graded "discussion", essentially meaning that you either agree with feminism, or you fail the unit.
Why is my English teacher allowed to force her ideology upon her students? If it were a religion, Marxism, or ANY OTHER IDEOLOGY, she would be fired and her teaching license likely suspended. There is an exception for feminism, however. This points to a much larger matter. How can feminists still claim their work is unfinished when feminism is almost the law of the land? How can women still be unequal, disregarding the mountain of evidence proving this claim is not actually the case, when feminism has become the establishment? What do you guys think?
