Homophobia

This is pretty sad. DOn't they have camps where they send gay kids too to make them straigh because they think they're mentally ill or something? The Christian people do.
Girls these days are pressured to conform and look sexy BEFORE puberty anymore. They are very young and dress like teenagers to look older. THey can't wait to grow up and be like Brittney Spears.
Many heterosexual women are not dependent on a man. That is just an assumption.
So here she's recognizing that men are oppressed too by filling certain roles? I think that they are to a degree but nothing close to how women are.
What does she mean the causes of heterosexuality? That is studied a lot! It's to procreate and multiply our species right?
My dad thinks people choose to be gay as she mentions here. It's so ridiculous. Like they can just make themselves stop being attracted to people of the same sex.
In middle school, my best friend came out that she was gay (she's bi now) and people automatically thought that I was too because we were so close and spent all our time together. I didn't care though. I asked her to the 9th grade socialy and turned down a boy when he later asked me hahaha
I can attest to this backlash against feminist groups. As a member of SARO on campus we have experienced people destroying our displays, being the butt of jokes in the college newspaper, and being ignored by the administration.
What women's magazine is she referring to?
That's interesting how she says that without sexiam, there would be no homophobia. I had to stop and think about it for a second, but yeah, it makes sense. A lot of sense. Men wouldn't be afraid to look feminine, like the WEAKER gender and women wouldnt have to be scared to look butch and not fitting into their role in society.

Oppression

Kinda exaggerated? I dont think women are known as only having one redeemable quality- sensitivity. But I get her point.
Since when is it a requirement for oppressed people to smile? The victims of the Holocaust weren't. Does she just mean that women are expected to be pleasant and timid or they are considered to be a "bitch?"
I so agree with the idea of no-win situation of being sexually active or not sexually active. It's very unfair to women. I have personally been judged this way and have judged others with those labels listed too. It's just ingrained into us.
She explains well what being oppressed means and why women are so badly.
Very good analogy with the bird cage! It makes so much sense!

Denials of Inequality

I can't believe people think that women are treated equally or even that they have unfair advantages! Like what?

Good point about men not thinking that some of the house work is unnecessary and just the women's "personal choice" to do. So true! It all needs done and taken care of and the men are just so indifferent about it and lazy. (though I know some girls like this too)

We are Using this Poower to Resist

Is she bad-talking feminists that organize "Take back the NIght" and ED lectures? Doesn't she feel that things like that are important?

-~-~-~-~3rd Wave -~-~-~-~

This is very inspiring and motivating. I feel her on how she feels powerless. Those men wouldn't think twice about hitting her she couldn't do anything to stop them. The safest choice she has is to keep her mouth shut and walk away.

Dear Sisters

- This helps me see why women of the 1950s were taught to be domestic. It was perceived as a privelaged life than poorer women in other countries who had to do physical labor.
- It's interesting to look at how rock and roll music lead into the Civil Rights movement, or at least played a part in its development.
- This gives a good depiction of how the 1960s were.
- I never heard of this "new left." What was the "old" left?
- It's interesting that even within the liberal, leftist rebels, the men still had the positions of power because it seemed so "naturual." That's so ridiculous. These were supposed to be the rebels and yet they still followed tradition male and female roles.
- It's cool how some first wvaers overlapped into the second wave too and stayed feminists all along.
- I can't believe NOW in the 1960s didn't endorse reproductive rights because they were too controversial! I guess back then they were, but now they're such a major issue.
- Sounds like women of other races because white were discriminated against within the women's movement. You would think this wouldn't happen.
- It seems like single-issue politics was more practical, but just slower at achieving goals.
- It seems like since radical feminists didn't want a centralized organization, this hindered them from accomplishing major goals because they were not organized.
- I can understand why these feminist groups didn't want any one person to have more power than another because they had all been suppressed for so long, but it sounds like they were not organized. Even so, you still need a leader and this naturally occurred over time because they couldn't accomplish anything the other way. Women shouldn't work against themselves.
- What a mess! Women because enemies over who was leader or not. They wanted to all be equal, but that's not in human nature. There were both pros and cons to this set up, but mostly cons.
- We have achieved a lot! We can't give up now.

Fear of Feminism

- Not only did college students lose aid, but tuitions costs are sky rocketing!
- This essay was hard to understand and follow.
- The government doesn't own our bodies.
- This rings true to me. I often don't tell guys I'm dating that I'm a feminist because I know it will probably freak them out. It's part of me that I feel I have to hide to be "normal" among other things.

A Day With Feminism

- If the women's soccer team is more popular than the men's, than isn't thie UNEQUAL? And I thought feminism was supposed to be for EQUALITY. hmm....
- I like the think about last names because it is EQUAL. It favors neither the father nor the mother. I think it would make things more complicated though. What do you call the child until he/she is old enough to choose their last name? How old will they be when they can make that kind of major decision for themselves? I think family lineage is important too. This would make family history almost impossible to keep track of. This is a good theory, but not very practical when you think about it.
- This essay is cool to think about, but it's still biased towards women being dominant, which I don't think is a bad thing, but is not what feminism is supposed to be about right? For example, kids should have posters of female AND male athletes, not just female, as is stated here.
- I like that peace keeping is emphasized as much as defense in military school!
- If all this was paid by the government, our taxes would ski rocket! (which is NOT good)
- This ideal world sounds really cool.

A Day Without Feminism

- This isn't entirely accurate. I had a male teacher in both third AND fourth grades. I thought they were both great.
- In 1970, women could at least vote.
- I didn't know a girl gets kicked out of Honor Society if she gets pregnant. Is that true for boys too?
- This sounds more like the 1950s than the 1970s.
- I think this title is inaccurate. Even though the injustices women went through are ridiculous, they still had more rights than say, 100 years before that right? That should at least be acknowledges because many women worked hard to even reach that point. To not acknowledge those advancements at least, I think, is very disrespectful.
- Some of this information seems exaggerated. There are no citations for where all these facts came from! Where is this authoer getting them from? In scientific writing, when you state a fact, you must cite where you got that information. Why would this be any different?
- If instead, women passed on their last names to their children, my last name would be "Little" (at least as far back as I can think in my family).
- "unproductive as having kids" I feel this is very negative. It's implying that women who choose to have kids and stay at home are not productive in any way. This is so not true. It's their choice to do that and makes a huge positive impact on the lives of the children. Women who choose to do this are very productive- maybe just not in terms of what this particular author thinks.

Claiming an Education

So I'm not sure if I'm doing this right. Basically I've been writing my thoughts and such into a notebook as I've been reading the assignments and now I'm just going to copy them into here for you to read!

So here are my comments about "Claiming an Education"
- Very Inspiring!
- I can relate to so much of it!
- Is this essay saying all-women colleges are better? Aren't women more likely to speak up if men aren't in the classroom?
- All girls my age should read this essay. It rings so true and is a real eye opener.