Comments on: A Smart Girl’s Manifesto – Let’s Get Thinking

By: Sascha Alexandra

Sascha Alexandra — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 13:57:32 +0000

This is beyond awesome. I adored this article – and was shocked to learn about the 25% of women! THIS is what feminism should be about, not whether to shave your armpits or not. Great work, Ashley, I’m sharing this everywhere!

By: Hannah Corcoran

Hannah Corcoran — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:17:37 +0000

This article is just so freaking good. Catches the “go women” without turning into some icky ‘feminism is good but feminists are weirdos’ type thing. Kudos. I will hold onto these thoughts for a long time to come.

By: Christina Konze

Christina Konze — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 05:50:47 +0000

I love this article. I go to a women’s college, and while our accomplishments as women are lauded, it is also just a place where we can all be great and what we do, because no one distinguishes gender in every accomplishment when 90% of the student population is female. I enjoy that dynamic very much.

By: Jade Tayla Bate

Jade Tayla Bate — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 23:35:08 +0000

Thank-you so much. I loved this article. You have expressed how I have always felt about how society treats and depicts women. Its okay to call yourself a feminist and still love men and things that are deemed “girly”, but kindness and intelligence are the most empowering traits a woman can have. ♥♥♥♥

By: Jaime Hammer

Jaime Hammer — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 21:28:29 +0000

This is great! And so true. I can’t count the number of times I’ve read or seen something about the first woman to do this or the first African-American woman to do that (the separation of ethnicity/skin color bothers me almost as much as does gender). Physical appearance or ancient ideas of how certain groups of people should behave or what they can accomplish should not dictate what members of said groups feel they can accomplish. And no one should be as shocked as they usually are when a woman or person of color does accomplish something. I learned in my Human Growth and Development class recently that women actually tend to perform better than men in school, and women are more likely to complete their undergrad degree and continue on to get their graduate degree. I’m not saying that that makes us better in some way, but maybe that helps to show that women actually aren’t less smart than men like people still think.

By: Krystal Moore

Krystal Moore — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 21:18:13 +0000

So true!!! I love the bit about half of us throwing her a parade and the other half of us criticizing the shit out of her. That is our nature isn’t it? As women, we all have differing points of view on the role of a woman, the nature of a woman and what is best for women everywhere. That makes it rather complicated to come together. The thing I think we need to realize as women, is that there are no boxes made for us to fit in, only the boxes we make for ourselves, outside of these boxes we are all (men and women) just people, and that is just as it should be. The first step is accepting ourselves the next others, as is! With that in our arsenal there are no limits to what we as people, and more specifically we as women can do.

By: Jillian Wilson

Jillian Wilson — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 21:07:09 +0000

Really fantastic article! I’m in the computer art and animation field, and have very big dreams of working for Dreamworks or Pixar someday. This is a field dominated by men, if I get to break into it, I don’t plan on them pointing fingers because I’m a woman!

By: Eugenia Sendzuk

Eugenia Sendzuk — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 18:43:07 +0000

such a wonderful article!
how nice of you it is to point out in such an elegant way that we, women, can do almost everything yet sometimes knowledge is what we need. as well as the ability to use it right for our own good.
i truly believe that women are smarter than they are as i’m sure that a woman stands behind every distinguished project!