Tag: Feminism
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It’s You, Not Them: My ever-distracting thoughts about the single life in a world full of real problems
*sigh* If you’re reading this blog, thank you. I am sitting here writing this piece because I had to face the truth about my writing. I am not sharing my most vulnerable parts of myself, and my subconscious could no longer take it. Refusing to write about the thoughts and topics that consume my life…
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Being a Woman in a Man’s World: My Thoughts on Hillary with a Pinch of Pat Summitt
I must say this article is really less about Hillary, but about my views about how women should go about supporting each other. Let’s try to hold each other to the right standard and support them in the same way we support men. Let’s stop holding ourselves to a higher and more unrealistic standard, and…
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Can We Talk about Consent?
I want to write about consent, because there are not enough of us, who have never been sexually assaulted, talking about the issue…
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Oh Me, Oh My: My Journey To Get In Touch With My Inner Girl
I never imagined writing about anything around the subject…
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How Ignorant is Your Bliss (The Monday Fits)
“I say there is no darkness but ignorance.” William Shakespeare It’s been a while since I’ve been actually upset for a Monday Fit, but I am today and I have been fuming for quite a bit. I posted only a quote from Ms. Virginia Woolf last week, because I hadn’t quite formed my thoughts into…
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The Monday Fits: First World Faux Pas All Around
As the year closes, there a number of different topics that I find bubbling up in my mind. But what I find that happens all too often, are the issues that are most important, where the passion overflows are closer to “first-world problems” than pressing matters. You know the problems from living in a wealthy,…
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The Fight For Our American Dream
A·mer·i·can dream noun the ideal that every US citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative. The origins of the American Dream are unknown, but this underlying theme has lasted with America for over 200 years dating back to the colonial time period. It is engrained in the…
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FLAWED: Society’s Critique on Beyonce and Feminism
“Okay, I promise I’m not a feminist. Well, I mean I am a feminist based on the definition, but I don’t want to be called a feminist, because I’m not a man hating, over-sexed, abortion pushing, I need my birth control free kind of woman,” – For starters, feminism has never been about any of…