Final Reflections

I really never thought that I would actually be interested in what there is to learn about Women's Studies. I took the class because I just needed credit to graduate...any class was sufficient. I realized that I don't really look a lot at everything that is around me and that I take a lot for granted.

I found a lot of the topics that we talked about really interesting and I liked how the class was more geared towards conversations rather than full out lecture because it gave me the chance to see how other people my age feel about the issues we talked about. I feel that I have learned a lot about myself from this class and I now think about some of the values I hold and why they are so important to me.

I didn't think that women's issues really pertained to men, but when you think about it, everything that concerns women has to do with gender. When we talked about equality between men and women early on in the semester, I thought that it was something that was fought for back in the early 1900s and not relevant to today.

I also realized that a feminist is not someone that I thought she would be. I had the stereotypical notion that they were lesbians, hated men, and only cared about rights for women and completely ignored equality. Through this class I realized that I could be considered a feminist because I do care about the same issues that we learned and talked about in class, I never thought of them on a day to day basis.