I wouldn’t call this particular blog post hard, but rather a taboo situation for my topic making it almost impossible. I want to figure out what made this challenging and why my topic is something that definitely needs to be heard.

In the past week, I got to interview one person. A friend of mine who I knew would be open to talking and understand I’m not shoving a liberal agenda down their throat. This interaction was by text and to their approval, I can share their answers.

My original planned questions whereof minimalistic sense. I found that if I had an outline I could then further our conversation into deeper subjects, which actually happened reasonably quick.

I sent the first question at 1:57 pm.

How would you define feminism?

Response:

I would define feminism as women trying to find equality in the workplace, outside of the workplace and advocate for human rights in general too.

Fair enough. Then I asked the next.

Do you consider yourself a feminist?

Response:

In the way of trying to find equality for men and woman, I most certainly do support feminism. On the other hand, I do not support feminism if it is only about women being able to dominate over everyone else.

Okay, looks good. How about the next question?

Do you think feminism is needed in our day and age?

Response:

Yes, though I do think that we should find another word other than feminism even though I understand that it originated due to women not being taken seriously. We all want to live in world where no matter your race, background, or gender effects how much you are getting payed or your overall acceptance in society. I think that if we were to strive more for equality as a whole, people wouldn’t label it as harshly as they do.

Do you know the difference between equality and equity?

Equity and equality are two things that help produce what we call fairness. The difference between equity and equality is that equity is just about the fairness and equality is being equal in status and rights.

Where’s the line between harassment and free speech? Can a man catcall a woman because it [their] right? Does our Constitution still play a role in these interactions? If no wouldn’t that be considered breaking the law?

The line between harassment and free speech is a line that some American’s have a hard time understanding.  I think that on a level of human decency, there is never a time when it is okay to catcall a woman. Ever. Our constitution has only stated that merely offensive speech is protected speech which isn’t okay. It seems that right now in America it is fine to catcall and harass a woman if you have the indecency to do so. This isn’t okay and we need to change this.

“I want to figure out what made this challenging.”