Well, I'm in the next generation of feminists.

[Neoma]

What needs to be done? How do we do it, and why isn't this a bigger topic? Is it a lack of a new voice?

We're still used as decoration, we live in a rape culture, women still have unequal wages, and apparently we're fighting for our reproductive rights again. (Or have we always been?) And we've come a long way but we're slipping back somehow. That's the message I've gotten so far.

What about men? Where are they being discriminated at? Child custody? Cases where they have been raped? Job discrimination for originally "feminine" occupations?

How much more is there to all this? Where are our new heroes and leaders in this? More to the point: why haven't I heard about the main group organizers and leaders of the 60s-70s women's movement? Or 80s...or 90s. (Grrl bands?) Civil rights activists had their Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks. Why on earth haven't I heard of Ella Baker in the mainstream of our culture? Hell, I think that's the only name I know. Susan B. Anthony? That was over a century ago.

The male default is so ingrained in our culture, that I never even considered having a female idols when I was growing up. WHY?

It's like women idols are hidden in tiny little holes and you have to dig them up, while men are blaring in your face with very positive, enlightening messages that attracts and persuades you that it's more natural to be a man with these intelligent thoughts.

I only planned to ask the first two questions...whoops.