The moment you knew mumsnet feminism section was starting to influence how you think?

When I stopped feeling embarrassed to admit that I was a feminist.

You know you meet the same old arguments - you all hate men, you're just a bunch of bunny boilers, problem with feminism is that it's gone too far, blah de blah de blah....

But armed with the arguments of feMNisters, Laurie Penny, Kat Banyard, etc and the comforting knowledge that I wasn't the only one with this feeling of "aaaaagh" ..... hey I no longer feel so isolated.

So, cheers for that!!

When I started seeing if every film I watched passed the Bechdel test, (none so far ). And then pointing out every little sexist flaw in each film to DH so much so that we can't watch them again. And now DH has starting to notice how everything is swayed towards men.

tougholdbird I hadn't thought of doing that. I'm reading The Faraway Tree to my dds atm and silently fuming when Joe gets to go off to see Moonface and Beth and Frannie (was Fanny when I read it as a child) have to stay home to do chores. I think Joe may just get a sex change and become Jo-anne.

I've been lurking for a while, as I didn't want to post until I got a feel for the board, and how it works. Therefore, while I've only just started posting, I've been learning and gaining a lot while lurking.

Anyway, I knew it was beginning to influence me, when I started to get riled up about things I may not have been riled up about previously. It was reading certain things on here, that made me think 'I never thought of in that way before, but having read this, I can see it is sexist/inappropriate'.

Just last week, when I was browsing Virgin TV 'Movies on Demand', I noticed they had a section called 'Not for Girls!' or 'Not for the Girls!'. It contained films like Jackass 3, Due Date and Saw: The Final Chapter, and while they're not my kind of films, I'm sure there are females who do like them. I know they weren't saying women couldn't watch them, but it still angered me, so I e-mailed them. I haven't had a response yet. In the past, it may not have angered me the way it did, and I know it's not the most important thing in the world, but I felt uncomfortable with something being labelled as 'not for girls' in that way.

I've always had a vague disquiet about porn but was not quite sure why. I| knew there was an issue about objectifying women but didn't quite know how to answer the arguments about "but they choose to do it."

Do now.

I've changed my views on porn.

I look at advertising and magazines in a different way.

But I stil like to wear make up, nail varnish and shave my legs

When I was overcome with the urge to shout "Coor darlin', nice arse, get yer bollocks out" at random blameless men in the street.

Nah not really. I think I've always been fairly feminist but I think when I started contradicting everything everyone around me said, I realised this section had influenced me...

When I started to flip over the magazines like 'Nuts' and 'zoo' to show their backs in shops.

When I started swapping the girl's name for the boy's name while reading 'The Magic Faraway Tree' by Enid Blyton out loud to DD.

I couldn't read her a book in which the girls did nothing but admire the leadership and bravery of the boys.