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blog 3

04 Feb 2011 Leave a Comment

Chapter 3 to me really stuck out as an offensive chapter. I felt like most of the reasoning behind arguments for sexual orientation was because someone decided that person exuded some characteristics of the opposite sex. It isn’t fair nor is it just to define what people think is the “right” sexual orientation. I felt offended because I myself have broad shoulders and I’m muscular. Sadly, my hair grows back ten times faster than most women. Does that mean they would question my gender? I like sports and I felt like the questioning of the runners gender was unfair to her. She earned the medals her own way, and if this is a free country why are we saying a man can’t vote? I love how a certain group of people define a sexual orientation. In my eyes I see it as probably some old lady that thinks some young man/ woman isn’t what she expects from most people so she pulls the gossip train saying that isn’t a man it’s a woman. Well, why do we all have to subject to what some people think? I agree there are five categories of sexual orientation, and personally I think I fit in more than one category. Are they going to tell me I can’t vote? Or perhaps take away my volleyball trophies because I’m not the normal female. So, why can we say what is normal and how can we judge what someone else is born with? Did the baby ask to be a hermaphrodite no, but they are all gods children so shouldn’t we treat them equal?

blog 2

27 Jan 2011 2 Comments

by Alexandra Mahan in Uncategorized

Thinking in relation to my life, I actually picked up an issue of the magazine Seventeen while at Wal-Mart. My roommate ritually reads Seventeen. I began to look closer at the cover and the articles in the magazine. I purchased it and later on asked my grandma what her opinion of the magazine was. She began to say how the magazine was inappropriate, and that women shouldn’t be reading this magazine especially women that are only seventeen. I further began to question why. She stated that what was written in the magazine was disgusting. I began to argue that most teens aren’t taught these issues in high school. I was brought in a separate room as the males in my class to b e taught about sex and menstruation. I personally feel the article about Seventeen and the word condom is stifling and controlling. If this is educational why do people want the column retracted? It’s not just this article that stifles education. After reading all the articles in this chapter I feel as though most people stifle not jus the education of, but the spread of feminism. It makes things harder to educate anyone on feminism when people want to silence things they don’t agree with. I grew up being taught everyone disagrees with something. We aren’t all the same. So, if we are all different then how come one group of people decides what should be published or spoken about? Most articles written talk about how few people know what a feminist is. Most people define feminists as lesbians. If we aren’t educated how can we define feminists? I think feminist/ feminism should have the right to educate and let people make their own decisions not the decision of the general public.