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Chimamanda starts off by explaining the time her friend called her a feminist. She goes through her early stages of feminism and the time she received the highest score on the test in her class but could not be the class monitor due to being a female, so they boy who received the second highest score on the test got to do so. She goes through many different instances where friends of hers have basically said that being a female isn’t that hard. She mentioned in her TED talk that her friend Louie said, “I don’t know what you mean by things being different or harder for women, maybe in the past but not now.” She follows this quote up with the time her and Louie were at a gathering and an event took place where Louie had unexpectedly witnessed
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The Chicana Feminist movement was born as a reaction to the sexism of the Chicano Movement. Women were not seen as the real political subjects of the movement but as auxiliary members (Blackwell, 65). They were relegated to supporting roles in as cooks and secretaries and often their ideas were dismissed. Many women were told that “their responsibility is to love, work, pray, and help… the male is their leader, he is iron, not mush.” (Ruiz, 109) Women were also discouraged from taking leadership roles and were told to wait to fight for their cause at a later time for fear of dividing the Chicano movement.

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Although the white feminist movement didn’t welcome Chicanas to the organization, Mexican American women were able to put their own spin on the feminist movement. According to The Development of Chicana Feminist Discourse, “Many Chicana feminists began their writings with a section that disassociated themselves from the ‘women's liberation movement.’” Chicanas disconnected themselves from the movement, but it had nothing to do with the goals of the movement, it was mostly due to the people within. White feminists didn’t feel the need to include the rights of Chicanas as a whole and only wanted to focus on the problems they faced as white women. However, Women’s Liberation gave Mexican American women a platform and the tools that would help build the Chicana Feminist Movement.

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