TW/CW: This blog post addresses issues of relationship and sexual violence. It also uses profanity in a quote.
ALSO IMPORTANT: The book that I discuss below has some very mature content. I only recommend it for readers ages 16 and up.
Last week, I was once again hit with the realization that I was being sexist.
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My family enjoyed seeing The Marvels, and my 17-year-old daughter and I chatted about it quite a bit afterward. In the vein of our previous posts here, where we together reviewed the film She Said and then NBC correspondent Ali Vitali’s book Electable, here’s a transcripted rendition of our convo, edited for length and clarity. I’m FAD (Feminist Asian Dad) and my daughter is denoted by JJ for the Chinese term for big sister, 姐姐 (Pinyin: jiĕ jie). Be warned, major spoilers ahead.
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Longtime readers of this blog may recall that when I went back into teaching a few years ago, I dealt with enormous ex-activist’s guilt. I felt like I was letting down my fellow advocates in the massively important spaces of women’s rights work and relationship and sexual violence prevention. To this day, those causes are still hugely important to me.
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Feminist Asian Dad 