you show me yours I will show you mine

As I began to read Prue Shows Her Knickers all I could feel was sympathy for this girl who has to go through so much torment pretty much from the people around her, and I had no idea how it related to this section. Towards the middle when the dare came up it made so much more sense. I think everyone as a child goes through the whole giggling with your little guy or girl friends about their "special parts" and I am sure most of us did the whole you show me yours I will show you mine. Well this is exactly what Prue and Andy decided on, but I think theirs turned out sweeter than most. It was nice how they ended, not awkwardly, but showing they like each other, and both responded with a lot of respect for each other it seemed. They probably weren't as young as most of us were when we went through this but it is still a big deal to show off your "knickers" to someone else, so I am proud of how they acted with each other. Well thats my take on this.

I will be heard

I was reading My Fight for Birth Control in our book and the story really touched me. The thought that women were that desperate to not have another child that they would subject themselves to such unsafe abortion methods instead of ignoring their neighbors and using birth control. I was nearly crying in the end when the mother died, and I was slightly angry that the nurse didn't keep her word and go back to talk to the woman about birth control. I understand that it is the time when it was not acceptable but the nurse could have saved that woman's life. Birth control is something that I would recommend to most women, even if it isn't just for the prevention of pregnancy. I went on birth control years before I was sexual active because it helped with my over all body. Condoms are another thing, they may be a hassle, but they are simple and effective. I am glad that we live in a time where woman can choose to use these things, and most men agree with them (we hope) so that we can all be that much safer. So to end slightly similar to the article, I will be heard, and now I am being heard.

I think I got this

Ok, so I am finally working on my paper proposal since I am awake. I have decided to use the movie Ever After with Drew Barrymore. I think this movie really shows a different attitude towards women because it is set in the time were there was absolutely no women's rights, but yet some of the women got power and rights in other ways. I haven't looked to in depth for which readings I am going to use as support but a lot of the different main topics seem to connect well to my ideas. The monarchy system that England was using at the time goes well with the system of privilege and inequality in women's lives unit. How the "evil stepmother" uses her womenly charms to get the power she craves should tie into sex, power, and intimacy, but I am not sure yet I need to check that out more. The entire movie deals with family issues, the royal family, the diverse step family, trying to mix the families; so this obviously deals with the family systems, family lives section. Those are my main ideas so far, if I can get enough ideas for violence against the women than I may include that. But if any of you have seen this movie and want to contribute some ideas I would much appreciate it because I can't write to save my life :)

This whole paper deal

I have been looking over the paper criteria and thinking and thinking, I still can't think up a good topic. I have a few possible movies and books but I can't seem to find a connection. I am sure that in time something will suddenly hit me, but I was just wondering if anyone else was as off as I am? We only have a few days till our proposals are due, and I know I have been really busy, and I have mono apparently so I have been sleeping a lot. I am gonna be super random and talk about myself, I have been sick, really sick, I am home right now sleeping like 17 hours a day. I am still going to be able to go to classes I just have to be careful with my interactions with people until I feel completely better. But anyways back to the actual topic at hand, this paper is hopefully going to be a ton easier once my topic really hits me, I suck at writing formal paper type things so yup lets see what happens. I hope everyone has a good weekend.

I love my fat self

So obviously if you have ever seen me I am not a size 6, or anywhere near there, and I have accepted that I never will be, and really wouldn't want to be. The article "love your fat self" by Courtney E. Martin caught my eye right away when looking over the readings for this week, and I had to read it first just to see what she had to say. The fact that "fat" has become such a terrible thing, Mary Pipher even compared it to leprosy, now that is just getting to far. How did we go from Marilyn Monroe (Who today would have been right near plus sized) being one of the hottest women, to how things are now "I would rather die than be fat". Fat is the majority people so get over it and just love yourselves. I am going to make this personal, so beware. I have been obese my entire life, no matter what I do I have stayed the same. Coming to college finally got me to accept that, I am fat, and I love myself. My friends always tell me "oh you're not fat" you know how people try to be nice, but ya know what, I am, and I know it, I never once have said that fat is a bad thing. I hope someday we can go back to everybody is beautiful, and stop with this gross discrimination.

"I've been dreaming of a true loves kiss..."

So, I don't know about yall but I actually like this movie, of course it has the whole silly girl and love story, but the moral of true love still catches my heart every time. Every little girl, and boy I am sure at some point, wants to find their true love, and get that absolute happiness that just seems so perfect. As a child I of course always thought I would magically find my prince charming and everything would be ok. Growing up of course changed things as I found out a lot of guys are pretty much douches. But, these movies still give me hope, hope that one day I will find someone that will dance with me and sing into my ear so that I know he loves me. I know its all super cheesy, and yes a lot of the parts of the movie are really funny and we all have to laugh, but I still like it, and the entire idea of true love.

This picture wins

I felt that this picture needed to be shared after all of the pictures we went through today!