Friday Feminism

I am frustrated with this class. Teacher keep talking about buying local food, supporting local, planting your own food. Stop buying food from corporation. Yes, you are right. And I told her about the poor have no choice. They cannot afford to make their own meal, they need to eat a cheap meal in KFC, because they do not have enough time or money to prepare their meal. Teacher said nothing and do not acknowledge what I am talking about. The conversation went back to slow food movement, buy local food. She told us a story about teaching her son to buy local food, here it is the story she told: I went to the grocery store and pick up a bottle of water, my son looked at the label and said,“Mom, it said made in France.”, she then told him to put down that bottle of water and told her son, “we need to support the local”. After listening to her story, I have a question in my head. What do you mean by local? For me, local product means product produced by my home, but where is home? Vancouver? Hong Kong? China? United States? Are we supporting the local business by just looking at the label?

I do not know how to react in this class. Sitting in this class seems like a wrong decision. We need someone who understand the others to teach us the concept of feminism. But not someone just finished a master/pHD degree of feminist studies and have no knowledge on how the rest of the world is working. In conclusion, I would say, we are privileged and now we are studying feminism. You do not know that you are privileged and you talk about change. The answer is buying local food, slow food movement and spend more time with your family rather than just working all the time. At last, she said, we are the one who can choose how we live our lives.

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