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Three Badass Females Who Define My Vision of Feminism for the Future

So, I always write for an audience of men only and I tend to ask questions from a male perspective only and I tend to give opinions to men more than women, so I thought I'd write a Take on some of the women in movies and literature who define my personal perception of what I think about when I say I want Feminism to be even more present in American culture.


Dagny Taggart


Three Badass Females Who Define My Vision of Feminism for the Future


Dagny is a the Vice President of a multi-million dollar train empire kept in her family for three generations in the novel Atlas Shrugged. She is far more intelligent, cunning, and work-oriented than her brother, James, and also far more rutheless and practical. Dagny defines the Feminist ideal to me not because she's a successfull business woman, but because she is not afraid to go toe-to-toe with the most powerful men in the world and this isn't even present day when things have become a bit more even. She defines her womanhood on her own terms, not through who loves her but by who she loves, she measures herself by her own standard (which happens to be business acumen) and never allows herself to be judged by the many characters of the book who critize her lack of "traditional feminity." She sleeps with men and demands their animalism and conjures her own animalism in return without guilt or pretense. The most special thing about Dagney, to me, is she manages to eclipse gender limitations entirely and doesn't simply "try to act like a man" but manages to define herself, on her own terms, as an individual.


Tracy Freeland


Three Badass Females Who Define My Vision of Feminism for the Future


Tracy Freeland is the protagonist (anti-hero?) of the film Thirteen. She joins a new school and quickly devolves into drinking, drug abuse, piercings, orgies, and other things you'd expect more out of an undeachieving college kid than a 13 year old girl. It is the fact that Tracy fearlessly challenges the moral limitations of her age and challenges the idea that girls just tend to act better and with more sense than boys. Tracy makes many mistakes, but they are her mistakes. She doesn't get pressured so much by male society or even her sociopathic best friend as much as she follows her own dark desire to break rules and play with the danger of depraved behavior. Tracy is brave and goes for what she want even if it's to her own detriment. Still, she is powerful in her own intention even at only Thirteen.


Jessa Johansson


Three Badass Females Who Define My Vision of Feminism for the Future


The cliche choice for last. Obviously, I would have to include one of the Girls (HBO.) Jessa easily fits the feminist ideal i'm sure for most as she is completly apathetic to any sort of stereotype that society would try to hold a woman to. She plays with her feminity as a gift sometimes, as a weapon others, and other times seems to forget she even has it. She gets the freedom to explore the world. She is the product of an enlightened world. She is lost, sure but she is fortunate and wise enough to realize she has a big world to be lost in instead of a narrow and rigid script to follow.


Three Badass Females Who Define My Vision of Feminism for the Future
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