I truly don't understand why women still feel this way. We have worked so hard to gain the same respect as men everywhere we go, especially in the workplace, and women like this chisel away at all we have accomplished so far. While I am not against stay at home moms, I feel that women should not be focused on graduating high school so they can hurry up and get married. It's empowering for us to go to college and have a career and despite what people may think, it is possible for us to have a career AND a husband. Why do people still feel that these are mutually exclusive? Men can go to school and have a family, so there's no good reason out there that women can't do the same. It's also bizarre to me that shopping and painting one's nails are the biggest concerns in a 19 year old's life. Why are we not taking the SAT and applying for college? Why can't we take the SAT, apply for (and go to!) college AND still want to go shopping and paint our nails? I know I have done, and am doing, all of these things...and I'm no one special. Women need to stop keeping other women down and stop demeaning the prospect of college AND a family...it can be and IS done!
Monday, September 13, 2010
Why are women still keeping us down?
I truly don't understand why women still feel this way. We have worked so hard to gain the same respect as men everywhere we go, especially in the workplace, and women like this chisel away at all we have accomplished so far. While I am not against stay at home moms, I feel that women should not be focused on graduating high school so they can hurry up and get married. It's empowering for us to go to college and have a career and despite what people may think, it is possible for us to have a career AND a husband. Why do people still feel that these are mutually exclusive? Men can go to school and have a family, so there's no good reason out there that women can't do the same. It's also bizarre to me that shopping and painting one's nails are the biggest concerns in a 19 year old's life. Why are we not taking the SAT and applying for college? Why can't we take the SAT, apply for (and go to!) college AND still want to go shopping and paint our nails? I know I have done, and am doing, all of these things...and I'm no one special. Women need to stop keeping other women down and stop demeaning the prospect of college AND a family...it can be and IS done!
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Good for you for starting this blog!
ReplyDeleteWhere was that essay published? It seems so over-the-top that it is hard to take the author seriously.
I don't know if I can take any educational advice from a person who thinks that "Maybe like a daycare out of your home." is a complete sentence. I can't wait to read more of your blog posts!
ReplyDeleteAshley and Cheyenne, I'm so proud of you two for starting this blog! You come from a long line of independent women and you are carrying the flag still. You are both so accomplished at a young age and now this - I'm sure there will be bigger things to come.
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Thank you all so very much for your support! I love you all and hope that you will continue to support both me and Cheyenne. Victoria, I'm not sure where the article is from. My boyfriend sent it to me and said it came up on one of his RSS feeds, but I do know that it was written or whatnot about 2 years ago and that there is a series of these articles.
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