The other day a man said to me and I quote....
"You either want equal rights, or you want chivalry-you can't have your cake and eat it too, so pick one"
I replied "We're women...we can get whatever we want, we can have our cake and eat it too...we just have to do one of 3 things
1) Cry 2)Lie and 3) Sex" Read More »
The other day I was looking at pro-life/pro-choice pictures via Google Image for my FOCA Blog post. While searching, I came across a picture of people with a sign that said "Keep Abortion Safe, Legal and Fun". Read More »
I am currently taking a political science course, Politics through Film and Fiction. I just finished the fiction novel by Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale. It was written in the mid-80's. The book is a strongly feminist dystopia. Atwood's dystopian society is based firmly in a religious patriarchy. Read More »
Many people believe that there is a gap between men and women. This gap applies to all aspects of their lives, including the professional world. Researchers and testimonies constantly show that men are paid more for the same job and that women are constantly held down. Many people just talk about this problem with no solution. Read More »
Abortion - the medical procedure of inducing expulsion of a human fetus to terminate a pregnancy. That is the definition I found when I looked it up in the dictionary. Read More »
I was at dinner with an old acquaintance a few weeks ago. We ran out of things to talk about, as our lives, joined for hardly a few months, parted ways without regret or attachment. We ended up talking about the election, the candidates, the issues. During my miso soup he just came out and asked me, "are you pro-life or pro-choice?" Read More »
Sitting in my government class today I heard something that really disturbed me. I over heard the conversation of a girl saying that she felt that women should be below men and that she would never like to have a woman president. This really disturbed me. Read More »
A group called Colorado for Equal Rights obtained an estimated 103,000 signatures, much more than the 76,000 required, to put a measure on the Colorado November ballot that would legally define a fetilized egg as a person. The measure is now called Amendment 48 and would read as follows: Read More »
