Feminism Reflection

This class gave me many opportunities to grow and mature my ideals and views this term. I know that I came into this class feeling pretty comfortable about my opinions and morals, especially those centered around feminism and LGBT+ politics, but I feel that I was still rather stuck in my ways. Despite being very open minded, I still hadn’t quite adjusted that not everyone was as open and casual about many topics that I had grown used to as being a generally accepted norm. I honestly feel that this class has made me more open minded to those who aren’t. Despite having good foundations, I was able to more deeply explore what it truly means to be a full time feminist.

One of the first things that we learned about was the actual history of feminism, something that I didn’t know that much about. I knew the

For pretty much as long as I can remember I’ve never wanted kids, and the few times that I did sway towards that I knew that I did not want to be the one to carry them. I for sure thought that if I were to ever have kids I would adopt or foster older kids so I skip through the baby years, an age I never found that appealing. That was affirmed on and off throughout the term as we learned different things. As we discussed more about the whole pregnancy process in class I honestly found myself leaning towards the idea of sometime in the future carrying children. Even the concept of babies and young children seemed more approachable. Unfortunately, that thought was quickly tarnished after watching The Business of Being Born, since they painted hospitals pretty horrifically. However, I found myself feeling more keen towards the idea of natural and at home births if I do ever decide to have kids. For now though, I don’t think that I could personally ever go through the process of pregnancy, but if I ever had a partner that wanted their own child, I think that I would fully support