Bushnell, Ill.“ While I then associated my conquests with ‘being a better boy,’ I now realize what I was really working toward was becoming a better farmer. In third grade, I cut my hair very short, and my father smiled and rubbed my head. While I then associated my conquests with “being a better boy,” I now realize what I was really working toward was becoming a better farmer. My freshman year, I left the farm for boarding school, where I was surrounded by the better-off and the better-educated — the vast majority of whom had heard the word ‘feminism’ before. I learned the Latin roots of the word “feminism,” its cognates and its historical consequences.

Source: New York Times May 11, 2018 15:44 UTC