Quiz: What Western Feminist Icon are you?

You are Gloria Anzaldua! You were one of the first wymyn to draw attention to the literary voices of American wymyn of color. You are a Chicana lesbian-feminist and one of the most vocal wymyn of color in contemporary US. Go you!

Huh? I don't know her, but should probably look her up. Well, if I took the quiz again marking the OTHER responses I agreed with, I'm sure I'd be someone else. I agreed with at least 3-4 per question! :( Lets see now...

ok NOW I am...


You are Judith Butler! Your postmodern queer theory has shaken up people's ideas of gender,sexuality, and sex. Your work has blurred lines between what it means to be a womyn and what it means to be a man. Queens and transbois all over the world worship your Birkenstocks!

OK, one more time...


You are Gloria Steinem. You are the McDonalds(tm) of liberal feminism, though you used to expouse some pretty radical ideas, you ended up working the system. Because it's easier? Maybe. But thanks for the only mainstream feminist magazine and for heading one of the most significant feminist lobbys in the history of the US. We wouldn't be where we are without NOW and Ms., as much as some of us are loathe to admit it.

OK.... and one last time...


You are Emma Goldman! You are the mama of Anarchist/Communist feminism and you inspired millions to embrace the labor movement. Without ever directly saying so, you directed efforts toward saving wymyn and children from exploitation. Oh yeah, you were also a total
sexpot!

AHHHHHHH who are all these people? Haven't heard of any of them except for Gloria Steinem, and that too in a vague manner. Honestly, I'd love to be someone like Frida Kahlo or Virginia Woolf. Frida because she was spunky, knew what she wanted, didn't buy into the whole gender crap but successfully straddled both worlds, expected loyalty if not fidelity, and had the courage to overcome and sublimate the limitations of her body and life in her art. As for Woolf, well, I've only read A Room of One's Own and seen Orlando (which I ddin't fully get :s). I loved The Hours. Saw it at a time in my life during which I could really identify with her inertia and the madness of being cloistered in a place where one doesn't realy belong, and the hopeless aimlessness of longing to be elsewhere, an even vaguer concept.

My main concern is - why are these women ugly? You don't have to be well-maintained with nail-polish and blow-dried hair and all that, but it makes the male chauvinist pigs and cocooned women think that feminism is the last resort of those women who weren't good-looking enough to 'get' a 'good' guy, and they hence all 'turn into' lesbians, and 'boycott' men and marriage as a case of sour grapes. For instance, when I lived in an all-girls dorm my freshman year (I didn't want to - my parents insisted, being a conservative with 'good' values blah blah). I have heard people under my window talking about how all the girls there were 'lesbian man-haters'. That was utter nonsense, because most of the girls were straight, in serious relationships, and simply from slightly conservative families. Alternatively, they were disciplined and did not appreciate the noise and mess that tends to comes with boys. Boys hence were scared to enter our dorm or socialise with us once they found out where we lived.

Of course, such stances totally display their ignorance, but they also points out to an aspect that perhaps seems superficial - feminism lacks the glamour that so many people in this generation are willing to do anything for. The '60's was witness the shock and erotica of the bra-burning collective memory - imagine bouncy-breasted women with flowing hair breathlessly proclaiming their freedom from restraint in a wild orgiastic nymphish display - at least, this is the image that would come to our minds. Sex and the City seems to have been the closest commentary of feminine sexual freedom that was displayed in the '90s, uptil now, but that many watched for the glamour of New York, the fashion, the figures, and the voyeurism inherent in getting a peek into the rather colourful lives of four pretty women. So much of the subtle commentary is lost in a surface viewing, like it was with me initially.

I guess the neatness and well-maintained aspect (no, I'm not a sexist, I think ALL people should look neat and bathe) is why I find hippies grossly fascinating. I just can't get seem to accept the concept of hair being self-cleaning, of the West not bathing very often in the 18th century, only washing their hands and faces, and having such few pairs of clothes. *wrinkles nose in disgust* I must read up on Emma Goldman but why does she look like an experimental subject? (in my mind I'm associating her with Milgram's experiment for some reason!) She looks STUPEFIED (Harry Potter reference)! I still have to watch GOF! But I'm sure I'll be disappointed because I invariably am disappointed with movie versions of books.

Which Western feminist icon are you?
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