{"id":343,"date":"2014-11-13T14:52:11","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T20:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonzmikly.com\/webdesign\/?p=343"},"modified":"2014-11-13T14:52:11","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T20:52:11","slug":"texas-state-feminism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonzmikly.com\/webdesign\/texas-state-feminism\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas State Feminism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/time.com\/3576870\/worst-words-poll-2014\/\"><em>Time Magazine <\/em><\/a>online poll over which word should be &#8220;banned&#8221; from use in 2015, the word &#8220;feminist&#8221; stole the vote at 50%. While I grew up in\u00a0 a household where feminism was encouraged, it seems the rest of the nation thinks the word is overly used, crass, and depicts a caricature of a species that, I feel, doesn&#8217;t represent the real majority. I even have female friends that would not identify as one in fear of being labeled as a &#8220;man-hater,&#8221; &#8220;bitch&#8221; or god forbid a lesbian. Basically it would be a &#8220;State of Feminism at Texas State.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I want to see what Texas State students feel about the word and whether it should be rectified.\u00a0 What I plan for my website to have is page dedicated to the history of the feminist movement and the word itself, a page on local enthusiasts like Feminists United on campus, a cons page as to why the word should be shunned, a contact page to learn more about movements, and maybe a state of feminism today involving political actions (like the Wendy Davis filibuster and the Hobby Lobby contraceptive act). I might include more pages if I can think of them.<\/p>\n<p>I can talk to local students whether by on the street interviews and professors, groups like LGBT along with (if I can get hold of them) local politicians and their opinions.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"TwitterPhoto-mediaSource\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/B0pgH0lCcAAq7fw.jpg:large\" alt=\"Embedded image permalink\" width=\"336\" height=\"448\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is an image I took at a past rally where members from Feminists United protested against an anti-abortion group set-up at the stallions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a recent Time Magazine online poll over which word should be &#8220;banned&#8221; from use in 2015, the word &#8220;feminist&#8221; stole the vote at 50%. While I grew up in\u00a0 a household where feminism was encouraged, it seems the rest of the nation thinks the word is overly used, crass, and depicts a caricature [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Za9P-5x","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonzmikly.com\/webdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonzmikly.com\/webdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonzmikly.com\/webdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonzmikly.com\/webdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonzmikly.com\/webdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jonzmikly.com\/webdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344,"href":"https:\/\/jonzmikly.com\/webdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions\/344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonzmikly.com\/webdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonzmikly.com\/webdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonzmikly.com\/webdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}