5 days and counting! Today's updates: I haven't gotten much actual work done today, just a lot of research and I started packing. I've also started working on blocking out possible questions I'll receive. I did get one speech done about establishing universal health care. Our district wrote this one so I have to go affirmative.
Today's lesson: don't piss off a female on a mission!
I'm sitting here listening to some Elton John on the radio. I sure do hate that guy. Love his music, just hate the individual. What really set me off about Elton John was his "Americans are misogynistic" remark at a Hillary Clinton fundraiser not too long ago.
I was at work the other day when "Before He Cheats" by Carrie Underwood came on the radio.
I know the song's been on the radio for about two years now, but I never really thought of it in a sociopolitical context before that night.
I am female. Its something that I have no control over, I was born this way. Never needed to appologize for it as far as I was concerned but to some you'd think it was a disease or a handicap that causes me to be a menace to society or a human being that is capable of less. The love of my life believes with me that women can do anything that they want to but that they shouldn't HAVE to do it.
Love her or hate her, Hillary Clinton certainly sparks debate! See the Senator Clinton media buzz in this Youtube video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcdnlNZg2iM) which highlights some of the more sexist commentary from mainstream media and ends with campaign moments.
Do Our Parents Cause the Cycle of Hate to Continue?!?!?
I was born:
A white male in an upper-middle class family
I was brainwashed to believe (by my parents, relatives, my surrounding community, and through private schooling):
That I should play it safe and not talk to African-Americans as most are dangerous.
That interracial marriage was wrong.
But it worked, didn't it?
This is the world in which we live.
You can't turn on the tv, listen to the radio, read the newspaper, you can't even walk outside your door without being bombarded by this nation's obsession with sex.
It's literally everywhere.
If you don't believe me, just tune in to the Superbowl and just try to argue with me after watching one segment of commercials.
Sexual roles and stereotypes is something that has been going on since the beginning of time. By the most part, women have been expected to do ‘womanly’ things, such as cleaning, cooking, taking care of the family, while males where considered as the primary source for the families support and money.
