January Monthly Connection

One of my biggest problems with society today are people who victimize themselves and complain yet refuse to do anything to make their situation better. An example are people like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton . They make livings by suppressing black people rather than lifting "their people". Anyways, racism is dying in the US, but people like Jackson and Sharpton are still living like it's Alabama in the 1960s. The bottom line is that neither of them would have a job if they didn't suppress African Americans (aka "their people"). While there are people like Sharpton and Jackson who complain that African Americans are not treated equally (which makes no sense because look at Obama but like I said they still think that it is Alabama in the 60s), there are people like Lorraine C. Miller who I have had the pleasure of meeting and conversing with several times. Rather than having some sort of chip on her shoulder (like Jackson and Sharpton) and complain that it is impossible to get anywhere in her life because of her race and gender, Ms. Miller doesn't even take these things into consideration and shows that she can do what any white male can do by being the Clerk of the House.

Many extreme feminists, (the ones who believe way more than the basic idea that women can do anything men can do) are much like Jackson and Sharpton. They suppress themselves rather than lift themselves complaining that they are treated so unfair. So rather than going out and working harder, they make excuses on why they can't. This relates to the novel The Awakening. If Kate Chopin suppresses her main character Edna. To me, this means that Chopin was your typical feminist, all talk and do nothing (well she did write the book, I'll give her that). The Awakening is not viewed as one woman over coming her obstacles, instead it is one woman losing to society. Whenever Edna was beaten down she should have came back stronger and worked harder.

This is what I think feminism should be about. Women should work harder and make no excuses for themselves. If things do not go a specific way, they should take the time to readjust their angle and try again. Women who do not do anything but complain about how unfair their lives are and how men have it made are not true feminists, the true feminists are the women out there earning the respect from men that they are entitled to.