“I don’t know why people are so reluctant to say they’re feminist. Could it be any more obvious that we still live in a patriarchal world when feminism is a bad word?” —Ellen Page I realize that “feminism” is a scary word for people. (I may even lose some readers just from the very title of this blog post.) In fact, it’s taken me a long time to write it just because I have been afraid of how people will respond… But it’s important. It’s actually so important. I have spent