Feminism Still Alive?

It's funny how related all of my classes seem to be this year, my Introduction to Human Communications, and my Message Analysis class, I understand because they are both communication classes, but this class also goes along with those two classes very well too. Rhetoric is a word that I have seen all the time, and having the Introduction to Communication right before Gender and Conflict is great, in my opinion, because I am all focused on how best to communicate or how different things are interpreted, and then seeing how gender fits in along with how different things are interpreted. Another word that keeps coming up in my readings, and discussions is Feminism. Talking about how it seems to be an effort that has fallen apart, since women have become more equal to men compared to how things were years ago. But it is also said, that even though it is known that there isn't a group of feminists, women are always compared to being feminists. If something happens then, it is because of the feminists. One of the readings for Tuesday is about Feminism, and there it is brought up once again. This one reading tells how the movement of Feminism has stopped ever since women got to be in the workforce and also got to choose whether to stay home or not. And here, Bell tells us to take up arms once again, join hands and start the feminist movement once again. Because we, as in women, deserve more than what we have. Even though we have come so far, we still have so far to go, so to say. So this started me thinking about what I could possibly to to help the feminist movement. And I know I don't want to do anything on a big scale, but I can do small things such as trying to stop my guy friends stop putting down girls, even when telling jokes. I think I want to help the feminist movement, but at the same time its hard for me to think what I should do, because I am so used to the everyday put downs so to say, so I don't mind that much. I think taking this class, will allow me to explore what else I may be able to do, and see how feminist I actually am or would want to be.