feminist

Today is one of those days that I came in to work thinking that its going to be a great day.

I must be weird or something. My friends always tell me about the date that they just went on with the guy they’re seeing, and somehow the words, “He paid for it!” come out. They get that little look on their face like, “Look at me, I have him wrapped around my finger, he paid for it! Aren’t you excited?”… And then they seem to be put off when I just shrug my shoulders.

This is a random rant about the acceptance of 'self' please bite down on something hard, but only if what I say seems to leave a bad taste in your mouth.So todays rant, my first baby here on Progressive U, is like previously stated the acceptance of 'self,' while sitting in my office and listening to Jefferson Airplanes, (which I think is an awesome band from the peace and love era) I realize tha

Feminists: Aren't like they used to be

I have always found it interesting that down history, females seemed almost always to be a lower rank of human compared to a man. Think of the word, "woman". It alludes to the creation story of Eve from Adam. Supposedly God created Eve from Adam's rib and that is how the two different sexes were initially made.

Women in American society have really retrograded from the time of Susan B. Anthony to now, with current role models like Fergie and Paris Hilton.

Why are we willingly characterizing ourselves as vacuous pieces of meat to exist for men's pleasure? Why don't we object to nameless women in bikinis clobbering all over rappers in music videos? Why do we willingly show our bodies for money, or more commonly, for plastic beads? Strong women struggled their whole lifetimes to escape such characterization, and we are willingly herding ourselves back into the pen male-dominated society finds convenient for us?