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Today, reading Three Guineas, I definitely experienced some confusion and then gratification. Here's something from my notes...

What is feminism? It's so elusive to me. I always thought of feminism as a celebration of women and their rights. Woolf says you must free yourself from unreal loyalties such as sex pride. Then is feminism not a fight for women but a fight to eradicate the distinction between men and women? 

Here's where my question is answered...

" Our claim was no claim of women's rights only, it was larger and deeper; it was a claim for the rights of all- all men and women- to the respect in their persons of the great principles of Justice and Equality and Liberty," (Woolf 102). 

Woolf defines a feminist as someone who champions the rights of women, but because women earned the only right, which is to earn a living, the word has become obsolete. She calls the word- corrupt, vicious, dead, and a corpse which she wants to cremate. I found myself agreeing with Woolf. In the past I found it hard to understand feminism. I thought it only stood for women's rights. It didn't make sense to me. It felt like a discrimination. Folly on top of folly. I want to believe that feminism is not necessarily a fight just for women's rights but a fight to eradicate the distinction between sex, nationality, etc.