Today during class the middle school girls (grades 7 and 8) read and responded to posts on feminist blogs, check out the comments to this post to see what they're thinking and talking about.
Burn Your Bra
The burn your Bra article I read on the F-bomb horrified me. It was discussing how women on Facebook were told to post the color of their bra's, nothing else, and too tell all the girls they knew, none of the boy's, just girls, to post it as well. It was supposed to be for breast cancer awareness. This Facebook thing lead to things like t shirts stating "caught you looking at my ta-ta's" and "boobies are sexy and hilarious" Yet it was for breast cancer awareness? There are not shirts saying "women are dying" or "breast cancer kills". It has turned into a game, not something to help people with breast cancer. But some people are starting to band together, to say stuff in their status message like 40,000 women die of breast cancer a year.
So who cares about the color of your bra?
here's the website for it:
http://thefbomb.org/2010/01/burn-your-bra-color-status-updates/
I was looking over the fbomb blog and reading an article about Hillary Clinton with an interview with Marie C. Wilson. The article is about how far women have come in politics...I guess what I'm thinking is: yeah, speaker of the house is a pretty high position, but why do we have to work twice as hard as men? When are we going to get a woman right to the white house? It's just frustrating.
-Kelly, 8th Grade. :)
Reading the Mean Girls article on The F-bomb really opened my eyes. I've watched this movie about 15 times! I thought it was the perfect movie for teen girls to watch. But after reading this, i have come to a conclusion that it give girls negative attitude about high school, friendships, and it enforces the 'perfect girl' phenomenon. Here is the link: http://thefbomb.org/2010/01/the-mean-girls-reality/
I saw a blog on the F-Bomb that showed a paper from a class and it said "a woman without her man is nothing", and the teacher said to punctuate it correctly and all the males in the class wrote, "a woman,without her man, is nothing." All the women in the class wrote "a women: without her, man is nothing." And it said "punctuation is powerful." I really liked that because women should be just as good as men are, have the same rights, and not be treated as underdogs or lower than men.
I read several of the articles on the "F Bomb," but the one that struck me the most is entitled "What my husband thinks." It is written by a 23-year-old woman who's been married for almost a year. She works 30-60 hours a week, while her husband earns absolutely nothing. She gets home from work at seven, and is immediately barraged with orders to make dinner, to do the laundry, to change the cat litter. When she confronted him about it, he said, “I don’t know, now that I’m married I don’t ever want to do laundry again.” But the most chilling thing is that she ends the article with, "Am I crazy? Is my role not only wife but maid and cook too? Is this normal?" Of course not! How can she even wonder if it's right that she has to do this or not? For that matter, why does she allow him to force her into "domestic slavery," as a reply to the article says?
I watched some commercials about "Sexting." Sexting is text messages sent to another that are dirty and scandalous. Check it out:
http://thefbomb.org/2010/02/give-it-a-ponder/comment-page-1/#comment-3956
This is what I have to say about the commercials.
Sexting is one of the most self-disrespecting thing one could do to themselves. It’s great that the media is putting out this commercial in a light and funny way, that draws audiences in. Although this is a very important concern for all teens out there, I don’t understand why a beard makes these girls are boys more mature, and thoughtful. The gift for growing facial hair– testosterone. It’s a chemical both men and woman can produce, but woman can’t in that kind of quantity can’t (unless they’re in the curious, and many young kids are staring down back at her with curious goggly eyes).
So, this commercial is implying that men are the ones that will and can be mature?
Bullshit.
I was reading a post on FBOMB called "But Baby..." Posted by Veronica N on 02/10/2010. The post was about how her boyfriend, who is pro-gay rights, is also pro-life, not pro choice. He said to her “If there wasn’t a law against killing, I wouldn’t care. I just think it’s hypocrisy.” Most likely meaning that he thought abortion was murder, and the hipocrisy of a law against murder, but the legality of abortion. One of the comments, which I found more interesting than the post said that she should show her boyfriend JJ Thomson’s essay, particularly the scenarios about the violinist. The link was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Defense_of_Abortion. There's a part labeled The Violinist, where it explains a scenario kind of like pregnancy, but totally different because you aren't thinking about the baby. At the end of that part it says "Thomson says, abortion does not violate the fetus's right to life but merely deprives the fetus of something—the use of the pregnant woman's body—to which it has no right." That is the best argument for abortion I have ever heard.
When I read the Mean Girls Article I thought wow! I then thought about what the message was. The message was that girls with blond hair and blue eyes that are on the cheer leading team that are popular are automatically going to be mean and horrible people. I can think of people who exactly fit that profile but they are really great people. When I first watched this movie I thought that it was an amazing movie, I've watched it many times and I thought that it was a good movie for teens to watch. But after I read this article I changed my mind. it put's the idea of "the perfect popular teen" and that's not really good for some peoples self esteem
Hello Readers of this comment. I am writing this simply to let you all know of an article I read recently; "To Have a Boyfriend..." It was interesting and had some good points about relationships from a feminist point of view. I thought it was really great, and I can honestly say that it enlightened me about boyfriends and relationships, I hope it will do the same for you. The writer is very opinionated, but I agree with these opinions. Please check it out and see for yourself: http://thefbomb.org/2010/01/to-have-a-boyfriend…/
You won't be wasting your time!
I just wanted to show you my favorite little tid bit of it though "I personally can only speak to why girls have boyfriends, but the first thing they have to realize is that girls don’t have boyfriends because they’re so ridiculously insecure and desperate that they can’t exist without some guy agreeing to pay for their pizza every once in a while. "
Laura Van Pelt
I also read the same article as Claire, about women posting their bra colors to Facebook, which I'd read about previously on change.org. It immediately struck me that this is something that breast cancer survivors can't participate in, as many of them have lost one or both of their breasts. This seems much more like a scheme devised by men to give themselves a small glimpse into a woman's intimate life than a powerful tactic to spread information about a horrible disease. Breast cancer is also not an exclusively female disease. Although women get it much more, men can have breast cancer. As the article says, "How about some real awareness: according to the American Cancer Society, 40,000 women die from breast cancer annually. Carcinogen levels in our air and water are strongly correlated with causing cancer. All women have a one in eight lifetime risk for breast cancer. Put that in your status message."
I read about an article called "Wear the pants". It was a campaign abut how men were losing there voices. Back then men were in control of everything. Women rarely opened doors. Old ladies could get across the street. Women always wore dresses and skirts. But somewhere in the history of sexism women started take charge.Women would know open the door for themselves. Old ladies were left on the street with no help, and wifes began to take charge of there husbands. In this campaign they made a poster stating all of these things and at the end it said. It's time to wear pants. In this article it said that mens testosterone levels went down in the last 20 years. it was stating how men are struggling. Even though some men supported this campaign one still went out of their way to make a shirt that said this. "This is a manly shirt for a manly man doing manly things." This campaign is celebrating the empowerment in women over the last to centuries. I thought it was very interesting though. We would think that we are the gender that is being targeted. This article is stating that is not the case. I think that wearing the pants is giving us more of a masculine sign and that we women have gained the right to be empowering. http://thefbomb.org/2010/01/wear-the-pants/ this is the link to the article. I hope you will enjoy it.
I just read this article on the fbomb called "Dishwashing Feminism" that I found really interesting. This article was about this Korean women that was at this dinner church party, and after they ate everyone said "Ok, the women are supposed to go do the dishes now," and this women said no way! and stood her ground...sort of. She saw that there was only one girl washing ll of the dishes and felt bad so she helped her. But she found it really very shocking that especially in a church were everyone is "supposed to be equal" women were being stepped on.
The discussion on Mean Girls introduced a second prospective on the movie. The discussion explained how the antagonist is portrayed to be a vulnerable new girl who is introduced into this new dainty world that revolves around appearances and rumors. The protagonists are the group of girls that successfully conform the new girl into being the epitome of a genuine "Mean Girl". Overall I agreed and enjoyed with the main points to the article however I disagree with the fact that this movie is anything but a lesson to new preteens about the wrong doings of angsty bitches.
Leah and I just read a blog about Halloween Costumes. Me and her; being feminists noticed the conflict between girls needing to be " sexy or objectified" during the costume choice. We noticed when looking for costumes either online or in a store are usually labeled as sexy. They are commonly with not much clothing. Even at a young age children need to be girly or princessy or at least wearing pink. Even my (Julia's) little sister at the age of 5 was planning on being spongebob. Then, when her class was having a costume party she felt the need to be a pink princess with earrings and high heels just so that she could fit in. We had to make a special trip to the store the night before to keep her from embarrassment and lower self-esteem -at the age of 5. What is strange is that the only thing that changes between the halloween costumes of a young age to an adult is how much fabric they use. You would think that there would be more fabric with the adult costumes, however, it is the other way around. Costumes meant for older women have less fabric. Halloween should be a time for people to be imaginative and be anything or anyone they want to be not a time for them to be as sexy as possible. As you get older there is the pressure to make your costume sexy and more appealing.
Link to blog:
http://feministgal.blogspot.com/
I read an article about the movie "Mean Girls." It's one of those simple stereo type movies. A new girl comes to a school and makes friends with the strange and not as attractive kids (even though she is very pretty.) The strange kids made a plan to bring down the popular girls who are head cheer leader, skinny, blonde, dumb and have cutest guy in school as there boyfriend. They are taking the new girl and making her popular. The maine point of these types of movies is that they shows how we stereo type girls to be all separated into different cliques.
Abortion should absolutely be the choice of the woman (and father involved, if there is one). All of the reasons that a woman would want an abortion must be considered in choosing your "side". Not enough money, not enough time, dangerous life, etc...
Men deciding how to rule a woman's life is just unfair and brings religion into politics (which I do not believe should happen).
TV shows like "The Secret Life of the American Teenager" influence the teenagers that watch the show that abortion is bad. It makes teens believe that certain things are wrong, without giving them a choice of finding it on their own. You might say that they do have a choice, but if a girl watches something saying that abortion is bad so much, eventually they will believe it.
I found a blog on fbomb about Disney princesses and how they are sometimes viewed only for their sexual assets. The blogger describes that though this may be true in many ways, there is still the point of their hard work and intelligent brains.
Here's the link to an article I read about this issue: http://thefbomb.org/2010/02/but-baby/
read it, it's great!
http://thefbomb.org/2010/02/the-super-bowl-and-abortion/
That is the link in which I found an article about ads when the Superbowl is not on. People say the ads are hilarious and most of the time they are, it's just that there is an immense amount of sexism and porn. It was horrific and sad. The article says that people and families don't even watch the Superbowl because of the football they watch it because of the ads and they want to see how funny they are, they just don't realize that there is that much sexism. I think that is really weird to because, people who go to the actual Superbowl also get to see the commercials. That makes even more people to see the commercials. I was really disgusted when i found this out. I actually feel bad for the people who have to watch the articles, even though they don't realize it!
-Arianna, 7th Grade.
I read the article about the movie "Mean girls". It was well written and about how all high school flicks are the same. The new girl comes is smart and pretty. The ruler of the school thinks that she is going to mess up her hard work and take the guy she likes. In the end the new girl gets the guy and live happily ever after and the bad ruler girl get nothing at all. That show all movie's are. These movies really show that we think that all people have to be in different groups.
The article we read was about the movie Mean Girls. This movie is about high school girls, and their everyday lives. The movie portrays the average high school girl as a back stabbing bitch, when thats not the reality. It also portrays the girls as always having to fit into a clique and never having the chance to be an individual. This movie has influenced girls into trying to be something they are not, and hurting them in the long run.
The article I read about is about platonic relationships between heterosexual women and men, meaning how women and men can be just friends. I thought about middle school, actually, when hormones are raging and most people believe that a girl and a guy can't be JUST FRIENDS. The article talked about how it's important that a woman and man can meet each other without an immediate "sexual desire," and I think that that is a very important idea, that women and men aren't constantly falling at each other's feet every other second; that platonic relationships are valued too.
here's the link to the article: http://feministgal.blogspot.com/
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