Feminism is “the social, economic and political equality of ALL genders.”
A sign on my desk says, “Behind Every Great Man is a Woman Rolling Her Eyes.” So, to say I am a feminist is not surprising, to say the least, but it might be surprising to know that one of my strongest feminist role models was my father, Richard Grant. Whenever I attempted to use my gender as an excuse, he quickly reminded me, “You are a Grant and we can do anything.” All my extroverted tendencies came from my mother, but my confidence came from my father. As a young child, I would threaten the beautician that if she burned me with the hot comb I was going to tell “my Daddy.”
It was his goal and determination that my siblings and I were going to be fully-equipped members of society. This included knowing how to cook, cleaning/dusting, wash clothes, iron clothes, and sew on a button. So traditional gender roles didn’t exist within the household and every Saturday morning we all did a deep cleaning of the house. I say deep cleaning because my father served in the Air Force so clean wasn’t really clean to him. It was clean.
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