And I want to say it's always heartening to find another woman who isn't afraid to call herself a feminist
I'm of two minds about people who think that feminism is redundant. On the one hand, it demonstrates a certain degree of naivety. On the other, it kind of proves just how far the battle for gender equality has come: the fact that there are women who grow up honestly believing that nobody will ever discriminate against them on the basis of sex can only be encouraging.
I was lucky enough to grow up in an environment where nobody would dare treat me differently because I was female. I never even thought about feminism until I moved to Japan and experienced sexism firsthand. Thankfully the crap I've had to put up with has been minor at most, limited to comments about not being feminine, or assumptions that I have no interest in sport because I'm a girl. It hasn't impacted on my educational or professional life. But it's been enough for me to take an interest in the sort of real discrimination that does still exist in many countries, and to pay closer attention to less obvious examples of gender role pressure exerted even in modern western countries.