Perceptions on being a Women's studies Minor by Kate Rapp

For this weeks blog I wanted to talk about some recent events that I have been involved in where I've been getting some teasing and disrespected because I am a women's studies minor. I'm not kidding as I'm writing this right now my friend who is a male just came up to me in the library and was wondering what homework I was working on. I explained to him that I was coming up with a topic to write about my intro to women's studies blog. He then immediately laughed in my face and said "Eww are you serious. What are you a feminist or something?" Now this is my friend and I was just left with an awkward smile on my face and said uhh what do you think a feminist means? And he said "Well, you know a crazy bitch." Then I calmly explained to him that I believe a feminist believes that everyone deserves to be equal- it's all about equality. He again laughed and told me that he thought that a feminist means that you think you're better then anyone else and think you're better then men. And I said no that's the complete opposite. And he then proceeded to tell me that a woman over the weekend made him a sandwich and how amazing it was... ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?! Even my own friend makes these comments to me right in front of my face and thinks it's a big joke. This isn't the first time this has happened to me since I declared my minor. People stop taking my studies seriously because I'm taking women's studies, and completely judge me for it. It just goes to show that women's studies needs to make a bigger impression on people and talk about these problems and educate everyone about women's studies and what it really means to be a feminist. By just googleing "Go make me a sandwich" comes up with 84,200,000 hits and numerous interesting pictures, I suggest you go take a look at what's traveling around the internet- where most people make attitudes and beliefs on certain subjects, such as what they see and how they then get the idea of how to treat women. But above are some of my favorites that I needed to show you guys.