Call to Arms
When I was a freshman at UCSD, Facebook was a relatively new thing. Access was limited to those who had an .edu email- so Facebook was associated with college- classes, dorms, finding like minded souls, etc.. I remember joining a facebook group, titled something to the effect of - "I'm not a feminist but... makes me want to bang my head against a wall." It very much surprised me that to my freshman year friends in California, we were supposed to be in a post-feminist world! Problems of gender discrimination were for people from a third world country- people like me. Well, life and time certainly has found a way of showing them. The way my parents raised us, it was as if we were always meant to do great things. No dream was too big, no ambition too high. Perhaps this created undue burden on us in our twenties, when we started to lose our childish belief in dreams and enter adulthood. Perhaps that would've happened anyway. But I am grateful that in the middle of the...