Today is a really important day for me.
Today, August 26, is Women's Equality Day. Although the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which granted women the right to vote, was ratified on August 18 95 years ago, today commemorates all of the hard work women suffragettes put forward to allow women to vote.
It's just the way the world works. Girls have never been treated the same.
What is feminism? Feminism, in all actuality, is more than believing that women should have the same rights as men. A feminist is one who believes in equality in general. Go ahead, search it up on Google. That will always be what it means to me.
All throughout my school years I have seen this situation:
Teacher: Okay, students. Dodgeball. Boys vs. girls.
Boy: Yes! No way will the girls beat us!
Girl: Teacher, that isn't fair! The boys will obviously win!
And you know what was the worst? The teacher didn't say anything.
Nope. Nada. Squat. The teacher didn't care that this girl thought she had a lesser chance of winning a dodgeball game because of her gender.
And even if I say, "Come on, Girl. That isn't true. We have a good chance of winning too," she'll laugh and say, "Um, whatever."
You know what? One time I heard all of this, and it motivated me. It motivated me to try harder in the game, and we won.
You might have heard of this little thing called child marriage. Some families marry off their daughters as young as eight or nine, to men in their twenties or thirties. Yes, you heard me. It's just ridiculous because young boys get to stay in school, while girls work for their families, get married to men twenty or thirty years their senior, and are deprived of access to education and healthcare. Girls Not Brides tries to combat this problem. If you haven't heard, "Thea" is a twelve-year-old Norwegian girl getting married to a man in his thirties. She's only a character, however; read her blog here. You'll need to have Google Translate translate it from Norwegian to English.
Then there's this "like a girl" phenomenon. Run like a girl, scream like a girl. If anyone tells me that, I'll go, "I am a girl. Have any problems with that?"
Girls should be treated like boys. African-Americans, Asians, Hispanics, and Pacific Islanders should be treated like Caucasians. LGBTQs should be treated like non-LGBTQs. Equality is something we're still working on in this world, and I hope from the bottom of my heart that we can achieve it.
Today, August 26, is Women's Equality Day. Although the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which granted women the right to vote, was ratified on August 18 95 years ago, today commemorates all of the hard work women suffragettes put forward to allow women to vote.
It's just the way the world works. Girls have never been treated the same.
What is feminism? Feminism, in all actuality, is more than believing that women should have the same rights as men. A feminist is one who believes in equality in general. Go ahead, search it up on Google. That will always be what it means to me.
All throughout my school years I have seen this situation:
Teacher: Okay, students. Dodgeball. Boys vs. girls.
Boy: Yes! No way will the girls beat us!
Girl: Teacher, that isn't fair! The boys will obviously win!
And you know what was the worst? The teacher didn't say anything.
Nope. Nada. Squat. The teacher didn't care that this girl thought she had a lesser chance of winning a dodgeball game because of her gender.
And even if I say, "Come on, Girl. That isn't true. We have a good chance of winning too," she'll laugh and say, "Um, whatever."
You know what? One time I heard all of this, and it motivated me. It motivated me to try harder in the game, and we won.
You might have heard of this little thing called child marriage. Some families marry off their daughters as young as eight or nine, to men in their twenties or thirties. Yes, you heard me. It's just ridiculous because young boys get to stay in school, while girls work for their families, get married to men twenty or thirty years their senior, and are deprived of access to education and healthcare. Girls Not Brides tries to combat this problem. If you haven't heard, "Thea" is a twelve-year-old Norwegian girl getting married to a man in his thirties. She's only a character, however; read her blog here. You'll need to have Google Translate translate it from Norwegian to English.
Then there's this "like a girl" phenomenon. Run like a girl, scream like a girl. If anyone tells me that, I'll go, "I am a girl. Have any problems with that?"
Girls should be treated like boys. African-Americans, Asians, Hispanics, and Pacific Islanders should be treated like Caucasians. LGBTQs should be treated like non-LGBTQs. Equality is something we're still working on in this world, and I hope from the bottom of my heart that we can achieve it.
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