I don't know why people are so reluctant to say they're feminists. Could it be any more obvious that we still live in a patriarchal world when feminism is a bad word?
Interpretation
The quote highlights the stigma around feminism in a patriarchal society and questions the reluctance to embrace feminist identity.
Ellen Page emphasizes the paradox of feminism being viewed negatively despite the evident gender inequalities that still persist in society. The reluctance to identify as a feminist suggests a misunderstanding or mischaracterization of feminism itself, which advocates for equality and justice. The statement reflects on the societal pressures and the ongoing struggle for gender equity, where acknowledging one's feminist beliefs can be socially frowned upon.
In practice
In a discussion about gender roles, this quote can illustrate the misconceptions surrounding feminism.
This world would be a whole lot better if we just made an effort to be less horrible to one another. If we took just five minutes to recognize each other's beauty instead of attacking each other for our differences - that's not hard - it's really an easier and better way to live.
I think a lot of the time in films, men get roles where they create their own destiny and women are just tools, supporters for that.
The more time went by, the more something just happened, an Oh my god - I want to love someone freely and walk down the street and hold my girlfriend's hand.
You think you're in a place where you're all 'I'm thrilled to be gay, I have no issues about being gay anymore, I don't feel shame about being gay,' but you actually do. You're just not fully aware of it. I think I still felt scared about people knowing. I felt awkward around gay people; I felt guilty for not being myself.
If you're a girl and you don't fit the very specific vision of what a girl should be, which is always from a man's perspective, then you're a little bit at a loss.
To think that before the hills were formed, or the channels of the sea were scooped out, God loved me; that from everlasting to everlasting His mercy is upon His people. Is not that a consolation?
In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
The world doesn't need what women have, it needs what women are.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in that they include among the ignorant themselves as well as the wisest. Compared with the totality of knowledge which is continually utilized in the evolution of a dynamic civilization, the difference between the knowledge that the wisest and that the most ignorant individual can deliberately employ is comparatively insignificant.
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