It
is bad enough that women are portrayed as objects. It is even worse to tell women
what to do with their own bodies. Nobody should be told what to do or how to do
it. You cannot go against someone's own will.
Silence
can and is a terrible thing. As a woman stands on her own, she will rely on her
silence. But if more women come together that silence becomes a voice all
together. There are plenty of silences that women have hide through the years
because they were afraid, to be looked at, afraid to be judged. Audre Lorde
said “The fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an attempt to
break that silence and bridge some of those differences between us, for it is
not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. And there are so many
silences to be broken.”
“Too many politicians and cultural moralists
are trying to define the shape and boundaries of the female body when women
should be defining these things for us. We should have that freedom should be
sacrosanct.” as stated by Roxane Gay. Politics have been an issue for many
people in plenty of different levels. Telling a women what and how to treat
their bodies, is beyond ridiculous. This barrier that the government creates on
women to prevent them from abortion is not only created by them. The religious
belief of a women or perhaps a teenager not ready to become a young father, or
even so a father not ready to become a grandfather might make the decisions for
a pregnant women on preventing them from abortion. Women values are seen
negative once they have an abortion, because they have taken a life away. Peggy
McIntosh states “After I realized the extent to which men work from a base of
unacknowledged privilege. I under stood that much of their oppressiveness was
unconscious.” The barrier will be carried out unto men making the final
decision for a body that is not theirs. If the body making the choice of
abortion was of men, then they would have to put more thought into it because
they would have to make a decision on a body that is its own.
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| Men in politics making decisions for a woman. |
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| Women bodies are always in debate in politics and religion |
There
are a million ways in which women are viewed in a negative way, not only by men
but by other women as well. Media can portray a woman as it desires for the
pleasured of an audience. Manipulation can and has been damaging to women
throughout history. In order for a product to sell, women are the subject of
sex for many advertising campaigns. In some cases in which that is taken and
large corporations are creating their own campaigns in support of women and the
views on them.
At
the end of the day, we are all one, one race, one gender, one world, we are
just human and we are all equal. In this world, where society determines who
and what we are should change that. I guess the things that society has taught
us are wrong. As a society we should help one another and look after each
other. Some Men are afraid of women being equal or superior to them. Men are
afraid that gender roles would be reverse. The truth is they have already
starting reversing, and it has been a long time coming. A good example would be
Hillary Clinton, the day when a woman obtains the biggest role in government in
this country that will just be the beginning.
McIntosh, Peggy. "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Backpack." White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences Through Work in Women's Studies (1988).
Gay,
Roxane. "The Alienable Rights of Women." Bad Feminist: Essays.
London: Corsair, 2014. 267-79. Print.
Lorde, Audre. Sister Outsider. New York: Crossing, 1985. Print.
Harris-Perry, Melissa V.
Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America. Yale, 2011.
Print.
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