I have always interpreted my empowerment to be able to act and live on the equal playing field of men. Yes as a woman, I have qualities much better than a man, and yet I find it empowering I have entitled myself to the same liberating activities of men. Equality is about choice.
Women currently make up roughly 1/2 of every medical school class in the United States. This isn't always true; at Albert Einstein, they make up something like 58% of each incoming class, and at other schools, they make up a smaller percentage. That's good, right?
I am a proud, strong woman and feminist. I think about the things that make me different from men almost daily. I think about society suppressing me. Why should I earn eighty cents to the dollar? Why do women have to wear high heels to gain respect?
This is a response to a blog post by jloigman, posted earlier today. Their post is here.
Walking back from class today I was approached by a young woman who attempted to get me to sign up for Take Back the Night. Take Back the Night an annual feminist, anti-rape demonstration where people (mostly women) walk around campus blowing whistles to, well, take back the night.
In mid-2006 a Mormon fundamentalist leader named Warren Jeffs was placed on the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Top Ten Most Wanted List as well as the Fox television show America's Most Wanted. Jeffs made it onto the infamous list for child molestation as well as other charges and the facts unveiled about him and the community he was running would make the coldest heart skip a beat.
When I was really young I once watched the movie 'Great Expectations' which contains a scene where a man beats a woman while she screams and pleads for mercy. That scene scarred me and since then domestic abuse has disturbed me greatly.
Somehow my most popular blog on here thus far is one entitled "Shoving a Penis Down Her Throat," a quick little rant about the overzealous nature of incorporating sex into commercial hip hop. I have received both positive and negative comments in response but one stuck out to me in particular. A fellow Progressive U member asked why I don't bother blogging about the porn industry.
