Bahamian Women are not stupid!

While that might be, the majority of the current generation are giving them a bad name.

After meeting Bahamian women like Lynn Sweeting, Nicolette Bethel, Helen Klonaris, Angelique Nixon, Krista Walkes and so on, I have a standard of which to judge other women by. As a male in a patriarchal society, it is up to me to become aware of strong female Bahamians, because most men don't know.
As a writer it is also important for me to understand the feminist movement here in The Bahamas and abroad. I find myself telling stories from male oriented perspectives with minor female casts. I've started digging within myself to determine why this is so and I've realized that it's partly because most women I meet are young, materlistic and sometimes brainless. While this is not true to all women I meet, I find myself unable to identify how and what they feel. What The Bahamas Writers' Summer Institute has done, is bring about a caliber of Bahamian writers - mainly female at this point - and a caliber of interested female and male writers. While the program is in it's third week, I've already began blogging and thinking about female identity separate from male identity - and that is a huge leap for someone who is always writing male stories.