Blog 3

Surprisingly I enjoyed the film. I feel like all people should have the same rights and nobody is better than anyone else just because of their race or gender. Even though I am not a female I understand what it is to be discriminated on based on things that are uncontrollable. Me being a black man I have had times where I have been stereotyped or judged based on my skin color which is not right. I did not realize the struggle and the risk all of these women endured and encountered on a daily basis. I was oblivious to a lot of the women's suffrage movement because this is the first time in my life where I really took the time to get to know about the women's movement. I feel like this class will do a lot of good of opening my eyes to the whole world and many different views which will only shape me to be a better person in the future and allow myself to grow.

This movie also helped me learn to accept all people and to not judge a person because of their gender. What disturbed me the most is when the women would be marching and having parades to promote women's suffrage and the men would throw bottles and spit on them like the women were less than human. It disgusted me to see the chauvinistic views of the men back then and I feel even worse for black women. They had to fight for equal rights being a woman and then being black. They had to fight adverse conditions back then. I do not see how the women in the movie were getting thrown in jail just because they were marching and I thought that would go against the freedom of speech amendment. Not allowing the women to march and say their views is treating them like they are not human and that is not right.

The readings in Feminism is for everybody basically just discussed the beginnings of feminist movement. I agree that women are not property and that they should come together to fight their injustices. I am happy that things are starting to become more equal, but just like racism, sexism and gender differences are still not perfect and we have a lot of work to do not only in America, but the whole world.