Discovering my hidden feminist

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I am currently taking a class, Women in Global Politics, in which each week we need to write a journal entry discussing our reactions, comments and feelings on that week's materials and subjects. I am going to post them here on my blogger for you all to read as I share my reactions to issues relating to women in the world today. 

This week I was faced with the task of writing an essay entitled, “This I believe”. Based on the NPR segment of the same title, we had to write 500 words on a challenge facing women today that moved me deeply. I saw the topic and thought to myself, “wow, what a piece of cake- this is something that I can truly BS”. As I sat down to write it, however, I suddenly found myself completely incapable of writing.  I looked across the table at my roommate Jennifer, one of the only self-proclaimed feminists that I actually knew in person, and casually asked her, “Hey Jen, what would you say is the biggest challenge facing women today?” She prattled off a list of things and I smiled and nodded, but just couldn’t get myself to feel moved by any of them. I also couldn’t help but think of anything that was especially important; I mean, we had the right to vote and we almost had our first female president. What else could we possibly want?