Miss Representation

I may get annoyed at times but nothing makes me as furious as male privilege and the unfair treatment of women. I hate the double standards that exist and the stigma that comes with declaring oneself a "feminist". After watching Miss Representation, my feelings toward the over sexualization of women have not changed. Women constantly see photos and advertisements that tell them they have to be skinnier and prettier. Women are told that they are objects and simply exist for men's pleasure. Girls have to constantly worry about being branded a prude or a slut, depending on what they wear and what they do.

When I grow up, I know I definitely want to do something in business. Typically, there are not very many women in the business world. I attended an information session for the business school at a college I was visiting over the summer and of the dozen or so students present, there was not one other girl. Maybe it was just an off day, but it seemed too big of a difference to not be significant. Rather than feeling discouraged, I was only motivated even more to pursue a career in business. The boys had lots of questions for the speaker (who was a woman :) ), but I'm not sure if they were asking to show off or if they honestly did not know the answer because the answers to every question that was asked were available on the school's website with little effort needed. As a woman in the business world, I plan to be a excellent resource to my colleagues and do my research before I attend a meeting. I will not let my gender hold me back. Instead, I will use my gender to my advantage and be thirty times as good as anyone I am competing against.

I would not say attending the Mount has made me a feminist because I feel I have been one since before I can remember (even if I did not know what it was called). I would say that the Mount has helped me to grow in my passion for equal rights for women and has allowed an environment in which I can communicate with others who share my ideals.

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This is kinda related but not really: the other day I was scrolling through tumblr and I came across a post that that had the well-known phrase "A key that opens many locks is a master key but a lock that is opened by many keys is a bad lock" the person who posted this commented with a different phrase that I really liked: "a sharpener that sharpens many pencils is a good sharpener but a pencil that is sharpened by many sharpeners is a bad pencil." Another person commented that neither analogies should be accepted, if someone chooses to be promiscuous it is his or her business and his or her decision should not matter, let alone matter more if the person is male or female.