Re-Direction of Belief?

You know, I really have to say that I find it so interesting the different perspectives of feminism among our class. Yes, maybe the different perspectives and opinions do grow from peoples' different backgrounds and upbringings.

What Prof. Schmidt said today about how 2nd generation immigrants and girls who went to all-girls schools tend to really have a drive to succeed and voice themselves was very curious. I am second generation in my family (my grandparents came from Greece), AND I went to an all-girls' high school. Do these factors point to the fact that I have a NEED--a desire--to want to have power and change things? I don't know. Does this mean that instead of writing about the problems of women in a feministic point of view, I become pro-active to making change? I don't know.

We began to get at this whole background thing and how it affects our views of the world (and especially feminism as we learned today!) toward the end of class today, and I'd like to readdress it sometime to try to understand the factors playing in the grand scheme.