Heather Hertzel (left) & Hilary Clark (the other one)
We decided to write each other’s bios.
Heather Hertzel is a 24-year-old scientist from Iowa. She studied microbiology and global health at ASU and is heading off to get her master’s in public health from UW-L. She currently works for a non-profit public health organization promoting vaccines. She’s a gifted artist, award-winning mock trial attorney and coach, and a smart-mouthed lover of avocados and Tilda Swinton.
Hilary Clark is a 25-year-old writer and sweater enthusiast. She currently lives in Tempe, Arizona with her five roommates where she studies creative writing at ASU. Like most ASU students, she enjoys a good fart joke and putzing around the internet. Unlike most ASU students, she knits, bakes to shame Martha Stewart when the mood strikes, reads broadly and ceaselessly, and cares too much.
Martha Wetzel enjoys feminist blogs, Indian food, and the game telephone pictionary. She has been called a bad feminist for liking the song 99 Problems (incidentally, that is the least of her un-feminist musical choices). She accidentally works in the business world, which involves making money, playing fantasy football, and putting sticky notes with programming code written on them up all over her cubicle.
Makes me curious about what eernyove’s first feminist texts were (or media in general).My mother loaned me her copy of The Female Eunuch, and I also read The Beauty Myth and Damned Whores and God’s Police while in high school (and Who Stole Feminism?: How Women Have Betrayed Women!). They were all from the town library. I don’t think I read any fiction that would be described as feminist until I was over 25.
Wonderful Article, well put. I had recently been in a sioaitutn where I felt unappreciated by an ex-boyfriend of mine, and realized that the women his eyes were set on, were women who seemed less successful than me. While that may be a very broad and extreme conclusion, it was the reality from my perspective. Traditionally, society has depicted women to become housewives, and less successful than men. While our generation thinks otherwise today, subconsciously, I think many oppose the new values, and cherish the tradition that our past generations have remained consistent with for many years. If you think about it, a lot of women still like being treated like a princess , having dinner payed for them, the door held open, etc, etc. Yet, we live in a generation where we we can make as much money, if not more, than men, and retain equal rights.In regards to women being successful, it’s the competition both men and women hold today considering the equality between both genders. On the contrary, equality is a very broad term in this regard.If men feel somewhat intimidated, or insecure about the success of his partner, he is likely to feel less valuable in the relationship, which is my theory on my ex-partner. The fact that his potential partners held less of a position than I did spoke a lot more than he could say in one sentence. While this alone made me feel upset, questioning, Why can’t I have a functional relationship as a successful women? aren’t men attracted to that? it serves as an insecurity that they subconsciously want you to feel, and the guilt inflicted on me for being a successful woman.I hope this makes sense!