Whether you were a feminist or not, how did feminism impact your life?

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1. I am in my job and situation now because I was able to join the military and get an education in a highly technical field. Without feminism, I would be barred from the military and would have never have recieved the training or experience I have today.

2. Feminism gave me the ability to vote, own a credit card in my own name, and get a job. It allows me to wear trousers and walk around without a chaperone. It made it so I can drive unaccompanied.

3. Where to even start? I can vote. I can own property in my own name. I can have credit in my own name. I can work in my field. I can receive a full academic education. I can report sexual harassment and discriminatory treatment at work. I can make many choices about my own life that wouldn’t be the case without feminism.

4. Feminism has allowed me to be free. I don’t have to get permission from a husband to do anything! I can pursue any career and vote for whoever I want. Im not forced into a life of home-making and child-bearing (but I don’t shame anyone who WANTS to do that. You go girl!)

   Without feminism I’d be nothing and I’m very grateful for all it has given me.

5. Not a damn thing. 😂

6. I’m almost 26 and unmarried, but given the type of men in my life at ages 15-18, I consider this a good thing compared to the non-feminist alternative.

7. Well, thanks to the 1974 equal credit act, I was not denied for my first mortgage on my home that I bought alone simply because I’m a woman.

   Also, thanks to feminism, I’m allowed to serve on a jury now and I have jury duty next month.

   I can vote. That’s a plus. I do that fairly often.

   Also I can wear pants. I hate skirts. And I don’t get arrested for wearing swimwear that shows my legs. I swim twice a week so I like that.

8. I’m being shamed and harrassed for trying to live the life I want to and not what society wants me to do

9. Without feminism, we wouldn’t have the right to vote, r*pe in a marriage would still be legal, we would earn much less than now, I would have been locked up in a mental institution for misbehaving as a teenager etc. etc.