Twelfth Entry.

As I was talking to another one of my guy friends about what the guy in my Tenth Post had said to me, I mentioned that I was taking this class.  He asked me a little bit about it then started to tell me his opinions on my past journal entries.  He said that while he does think that it's wrong for women to not be treated as equals, he feels as though it's wrong for a girl to wear whatever she wants because the men usually get chastised for looking.  He said, "There was a time when subtlety existed, and the further I'm getting along in life, the further it doesn't exist.  There's a difference between freedom and order, and we as a society are straying from the path".  He went on to say that he has certain opinions on the matter, and that that was one of them.  He also mentioned that he's "just as guilty as everyone else, sometimes", which to me means he knows the typical ways in which men perceive women, and even though he tries, he falls wayside to the all too common things that he believes men should think about women.

Eleventh Entry.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBsEF7Qx09o

The Pussycat Dolls - "I Don't Need A Man"

With all the song that are out there now that just depict a woman needing a man or not being able to go on without her guy, I feel like this is different.  The Pussycat Dolls are a pretty well known group of strippers turned singers, and they aren't even that bad.  This music video of theirs show's a bunch of half naked, sexy women which automatically catches people attention, which is what they were aiming for.  But once you actually listen to the song, you realize they're singing about being independent, and not needing "a ring around their finger to make them feel complete".  I wish more people were like that, and actually cared about themselves enough to realize that they can be amazing on their own, and they don't need to rely on anyone else to help them be.

Tenth Post.

I was talking to one of my guy friends recently, and something he had said kind of set me on edge.  He is one of your typical piggish men, and to be honest, I don't know why I'm friends with him.  We were talking about how certain people come off to him, and he told me how he looked at me.  He said that if he didn't know me, and spent an entire day with me having never met me before, that I would come off as a slutty girl who gives it up right and left. ..Now if you were to ask anyone else I know, they would say the complete opposite.  He just knows the right things to say to get me mad, and once I'm mad, he knows he won by getting to me.  I'm actually a virgin, and I'm not ashamed to tell people.  He knows this and told me, "I'll bet you ten dollars you f*** before you're married".  Just the fact that he categorizes me like that with such vulgar terminology really makes me angry.  I just don't understand the guys who think it's their job in life to demean girls and women, regardless of what they know or don't know about the person.

Ninth Post.

The text in the red circle reads, "we are angry at a society that tells us Girl = Dumb. Girl = Bad. Girl = Weak". To me I feel like the fist represents what we should be doing to help ourselves. We need to stand up for ourselves, and not let ourselves be silenced by men who feel like they tower over us. We should prove to people who question us that we smart, capable, and strong.

Eighth Post.

Back to the website I made the first post about.  Once in a while, I come across some pictures that I don't disagree with.  I like this picture because it's on a public website that a lot of people I know go to, so there must be people I don't know who also go to it.  Even though the purpose of the picture might be that cross dressers or transgenders are degrading to men, I'm hoping the last line pulls more people's attention than just mine.