"Hey beautiful, smile!" "You'd look prettier if you smiled! "Hey try smiling!" There are many ways that disciplinary practices of femininity are imposed on women on a day to day basis. Society often attempts to control or generalize the movement, posture, and body language of women. One attempt in particular has been experienced by many women, the classic moment when an … [Read more...] about The Demand to Smile: A Look into Strangers Telling Women to Smile
What is Your Call on Catcalling?
By now even if people haven't seen the catcalling video of the woman walking around New York, people have at least heard of it. A woman filmed herself for several hours walking around New York enduring a wide range of comments from men on her appearance. The woman was followed, yelled at, hollered at and it was clear that she was uncomfortable with all of this. The video was … [Read more...] about What is Your Call on Catcalling?
What’s in a name? That which we call feminism by any other name…
fem·i·nism noun 1.the advocacy of women's rights on the grounds of political, social, and economic equality to men. I have openly supported feminism since I was in elementary school fighting for the right for girls to use the monkey bars on the playground when the boys tried to keep them for themselves. As I grew up and became more grounded in my beliefs of … [Read more...] about What’s in a name? That which we call feminism by any other name…
Decoding the Dress Code
It is a topic that I have not thought about since high school because as a college female I don't have a dress code for class. It wasn't until I started seeing various campaigns about dress code that stated messages such as how our society could have a man walk on the moon yet we are still not letting girls wear shorts to school because boys might get "distracted". In your … [Read more...] about Decoding the Dress Code
You Don’t Have to Win the Nobel Peace Prize to be Noble
Malala Yousafzai is the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize which she won for her brilliant humanitarian efforts and her voice in the fight for equal education for girls. Malala's message began with the call to promote education for girls in her home country Pakistan. She claims that her vision for the right for girls to be educated began at age eleven and despite the … [Read more...] about You Don’t Have to Win the Nobel Peace Prize to be Noble