"When It Changed"

After reading When It Changed, I feel that the author tried addressing to her readers that women are capable of the things men are capable of. For example, us females can very much take care of ourselves. I brought up in class that the song "Independent Women", by Destiny's Child sorta goes with this story lol:]

A question was brought up in discussion today, is this story a feminist story? Although I am a female myself, I'd have to say, yes, I do believe that When It Changed is a feminist story. Russ emphasizes greatly that women CAN survive without men, although we all now that's biologically impossible, through her writing, she showed that even the impossible is possible.

In some ways I agree with Russ in terms of men not being a necessity to take care of ourselves. but i disagree in terms that we can live without them . i mean, i don't wanna live in a society where absolutely NO men exist, and that when the day comes that i come across a man, i'd think he's an alien.