I talk a great deal about not labeling every woman who expresses that women should be treated like human beings as some vile, evil, man-hating, hussy.

It just never makes sense to me that you can’t say anything logical without someone saying “oh you are a feminist” are rolling their eyes.

Women are not sex objects- “Ugh, you are a feminist”

That rape t-shirt is not funny “Quit being such a feminist”

That double standard make no sense “Oh you are one of those fembots”

But I just realized that I do something very similar, and it’s strange to admit it.

There is a group….let’s call them an “activism group” that makes my blood boil. When I hear the name that they call themselves I automatically get annoyed. If someone outright says, “hey, I am one of them”, I automatically think horrible things.

It never occurred to me that I do this until someone said, “hey, I am one of them, but that doesn’t mean I am a bad person. All of us don’t think that way. “

Ding, ding, ding…wow, I felt so embarrassed. I have such a narrow view of this group of people based upon how some people choose to behave. Therefore in my mind, this group is synonymous with not a very nice term. And yet, even knowing that I can’t possibly group every individual in that bad category, the word itself still leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

So there, I’m admitting it. And now I resolve to take a bit of my own advice.