“To be recognized as a feminist is to be assigned to a difficult category and a category of difficulty. You are “already read” as “not easy to get along with” when you name yourself as a feminist. You have to show that you are not difficult through displaying signs of good will and happiness…We can also witness an investment in feminist unhappiness (the myth that feminists kill joy because they are joyless). There is a desire to believe that women become feminists because they are unhappy, perhaps as a displacement of their envy for those who have achieved the happiness they have failed to achieve. This desire functions as a defense of happiness against feminist critique. This is not to say that feminists might not be unhappy; we might be unhappy after all with this representation of feminism as a caused by unhappiness. My point here would be that feminists are read as being unhappy, such that situations of conflict, violence, and power are read as about the unhappiness of feminists, rather than being what feminists are unhappy about. (67)”
Sara Ahmed, The Promise of Happiness
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I have a hard time telling people I majored in Feminist Studies sometimes. I always want to qualify it like “I’m not one of THOSE feminists” etc etc…I hate that. I’m proud of my major. But people hear “feminist”, let alone “MAJORED IN FEMINIST STUDIES” and I assume they start making assumptions. :(
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