My Feminist Awakening and the Influence of Beyoncé's Pop Culture Declaration
 I am going to analyze the fourth and fifth paragraph in this article by Janet Mock. When Beyoncé, in the fourth paragraph, talks about her view on being labeled as a feminist and how she feels she is a modern day feminist, I cannot help but question what is the difference between a modern day feminist from those from the Women's Rights Movement. I love history and understand women during the movement wanted equal opportunities as men in the work force. I also understand they struggled for a long time and that struggle is apparently not over. What I question is, if the fight has never ended, how has it changed from "old" to a "modern" feminist. I agree though, with Beyoncé who claims she could be a feminist but she is also in love with her family and her husband and maybe that's the difference between "old" and "modern" feminists; being happy in marriage. This new interpretation of a modern feminists might allow more women to connect and relate to the word if they know that feminists are not man haters and could be like Beyoncé and be a feminist who also is happily married and loves her husband. This could put a whole new meaning to the word.

I know my mother is not a feminist per say, but I do remember when she bought her truck when I was little and the man who sold her the truck turned to my dad and asked him all the money questions. Now, my mom is the person in my house that handles all the money and she was the one who was going to be purchasing the truck. But the man refused to bring her into the conversation until she called him out on it. Looking back, I know she wishes she would have spent her money elsewhere but she did buy the truck from that dealership. I cannot say whether I've experienced such inequality between me and a man, but I do know that I beat my friend up when he made the joke that a women's place is in the kitchen. There is something about that phrase that drives me nuts.