One of my really good friends wrote this a few days ago and sent it to me, we had been talking earlier that day about the amount of pressure on women to be society's view of "beautiful" whatever that really is and then had gone home and was watching an episode of "whose line is it anyways?" So, one of the jokes that they had made was "Did you see the jugs on the woman in row four?" and I guess it kind of irritated her. This was her response:
Pretty and SmartDid you see the jugs on the woman in row 4?
Did you look at the legs on the woman over there?
Did you notice the *** on the woman in front of us?
Did you glance at the stomach on the woman on the treadmill?
Isn't she hot?Society's oppression.
The judgment.
Domineering individuals.
All keeping woman down,
Keeping them someone they're not.
Keeping them some kind of pretty.Why do we never hear things that count?
Did you listen to that woman's ideas?
Did you hear that woman's beliefs?
Did you eavesdrop on that woman's opinion?
Isn't she intelligent?Silent postulation.
Thoughts never heard.
Misplaced respect.
Feminists aren't all extreme
And deserve some respect.
Is the Woman's Suffrage
So easily forgotten?
I like it and asked her to repost it, to me this sums up why I am a feminist. I hope you all enjoy.
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Lol, ok.
I like it. I definitely can see where your friend is coming from. Women are seen as objects far too often. I've been considered "pretty" and "ugly", and I hate being both. I hate being "that one chick with the nice ass" or "that one ugly chick over there". I despise not being taken seriously no matter what I'm doing. I won a concerto competition years ago when I played the violin. Me and the guy who won second place performed our concertos at a concert. After the performance, whenever I heard people talking about me, it was always something like "oh she looks so pretty in that dress!". The guy was, of course, only complimented on his talent.
No matter what I do or how I look, I'm reduced to my appearance and my body parts. It's infuriating.
yeah and that was what we were talking about that day too. We both attend a university that is predominently male, not any fault of the college, just not very many girls apply there as it focuses solely on science. We get a lot of flack from both sides of that spectrum because of it and any time we do manage to accomlish something amazing in one of our classes ect. its always reduced to what we looked like that day. She actually gets a lot of critisism because she doesn't "look like a girl" I've only seen her in a dress once and that was for prom, we've been friends since our freshman year of high school. She also has dred locks and so its never about what she's done but about how unwomanly her hair is, or her clothes are. And as much as you try and not let it get to you, sometimes it just does.