It looks like an Ending but is just the Beginning!

So as you have seen, this is the last time many of us bloggers will be writing for Shout Out.  I honestly thought that this project would not have gone as fast as it did.  I feel like I have so many more things to say and talk about but I will probably just have to do it in a different medium.  I know I will probably always be writing about my point of view on feminism and discuss with my friends and family my thoughts on feminism.  From everything I learned from this blog, I was also able to bring my knowledge of feminism to my school work this year.

Recently, for one of my writing classes in my group final we had to focus on the rhetoric of comedy shows through the decades.  I was assigned the 50′s and 60′s.  The shows I chose to focus on during that decade were “Bewitched” and “I Love Lucy”.  The reason I chose both of those shows was because I wanted to focus on women who were probably the most influential at the time because audiences fell in love with these shows and the actresses.  I did most of my focus on “I Love Lucy” because I use to watch reruns of this show with my Mom and because of the impact she had on women during that time period.  I learned that the reason her character, Lucy, was always getting into weird and crazy situations, which usually ended badly, was because she was trying to portray the struggles of women at the time who were trying to enter the workforce.  Of course this was a little over exaggerated but she was trying to make a point in a subtle way that would still keep the audiences engaged in the TV show.  I also found out that she had one of the only women screenwriters at the time that helped her create this character.  I also saw the way men during that time reacted to women who were trying to enter the workforce.  Characters like Ricky, her husband, on the show would be against her trying to get a job.  Once he said “I just want a wife”, meaning he just wanted her to be a housewife and not a career woman.

Since I was already knowledgeable about feminist terminology and ideals it was easy for me to write that paper.  And it was thanks to all of my writing for this blog.  Not only did writing for Shout Out help me in school, but it helped me in my life.  I now feel comfortable and confident to talk to people about my thoughts on feminism.  Before this blog, I will admit I was intimidated by people who talked about feminism all the time because they seemed to know more about it than me or were updated on the current issues occurring in feminist topics.

Now that I am introduced to this world of feminism blogging, I still plan on reading others’ blogs to keep me updated on what’s new or changing in the feminist world.  As my title has said it looks like an Ending but it is actually just the Beginning for my journey with feminism.