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Tyler Vallin
English 112/004
Voth
Dear Emma Watson
Dear Emma Watson,
My name is Tyler Vallin. I am 20-year-old male. I am from Aurora Colorado, and I
attend Colorado Mesa University. I am studying business and I also play football here. I’m
familiar with your work in the Harry Potter series even though I still haven’t finished all the
movies. I’ll get on that when I have some free time. Let me tell you a little about me and how I
got introduced to feminism. I don’t live the normal life of a college student. I grew up in two
homes, one in the city and one out in the country with your closest neighbor being 5 miles away.
My parents haven’t been together for most of my life. I’ve lived with my mom most of the time
only getting to visit my dad on weekends and holidays. Because of living with my mom and my
sister, I’ve been around the idea of feminism my whole life but never knew what it was. My
mom would try to help me understand but I kind of got pushed away from it because I saw it as
the world owing something to women and how the world did them all wrong. Being around my
dad it was completely different I was taught how to be a man, how to act tough, and showed
many life lessons through it all. However, the one thing I was thankful for out of all of this was
growing up in two worlds. One world living within the city with my mom and the second world
living on a farm living with my dad. Which lead to feminism being shown to me in two different
viewpoints but after watching your speech and reading about your speech it cleared up the true
meaning behind your movement.
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Your definition of feminism was right out of the dictionary “is the belief that men and
women should have equal rights and opportunities” (par 4). Before I heard and read your speech
to the U.N, my definition of feminism was the idea of women having the same rights and
opportunities as men completely thinking that feminism is all around the idea of only women,
not men and women. After watching the speech and reading the speech, I found that I was very
one sided based on what I thought feminism was purely for a woman only of the basis of the
name and the bad publicity around the word feminism.
When men think of the word feminism, they think man hating or the idea of just women
not being treated equal. We get the impression that we are the bad guy in the situation, and
everyone wants us to go away, which makes us fade off from the true meaning for the word.
