Spring break wasn’t too long ago, and with the reluctant emergence of spring here in the Shenandoah Valley, I desperately want to go back. This year my eight housemates and myself stayed at a friend’s house in Hatteras Village, NC, a sleepy town south of the famous Kitty Hawk dunes. With the beach and what […]
Read More Surfing Through Sexism: Sexualization in AdvertisingThe other day while watching the always entertaining and addictive show, “Sex and the City,” I was inspired to write about men’s intimidation of successful women. During the episode, Carrie (the main character) was going through a rough patch with her significant other simply because her career was successful and his wasn’t. At the end […]
Read More Why do some men have insecurities of successful women?The other day on Twitter Citi posted “The Top 25 Best Countries To Be A Woman,” as described in the 2013 Global Gender Gap Report. I clicked through the slideshow and found that the United States landed at spot number 23. While I am at happy and grateful to be a living in a country that […]
Read More Global Gender Gap Report: What it Means For Women, The U.S. and PoliticsI know what you are thinking; you could not have possibly read that correctly because there is absolutely no way I just stated that feminism is about men. Even as I wrote the statement that tiny little feminist inside me shouted to the heavens asking how I could take this one thing away from women. […]
Read More Feminism Is About MenHello readers! Hearmeroar12 here, writing for ShoutOut for the first time! I’m really stoked to get started with this semester, not only because I think that the goal of this blog is really important, but also because I have a looooot of opinions regarding feminist issues. I want to share these opinions with both open […]
Read More …Now I Realize I’m a FeministHey everyone! It’s your pro-feminist friend ElFeministo, back for another year of feminist discourse! I’m back to further my feminist rhetoric and learn more about how to live a feminist life! So if you remember me from my previous posts, I was literally fresh to the philosophy of feminism and what it meant to be […]
Read More Shout-Out’s Back ALRIGHT!!So the other day I was singing a song that I sang when I was in elementary school. Its from Annie Get Your Gun the musical, called Anything you Can Do. In case you have never heard of this musical here is a little background on it. It’s about woman named Annie Oakley, based on the […]
Read More I can do anything better than you!Unfortunately, the word feminism has gotten a bad rap over the years causing the subsequent attachment to the word to be seen as something negative. Often when I tell someone that I am a feminist I have to dispel false ideas that they have about me just because of my association. The negative stereotype is […]
Read More Things I’m NotAs many of my readers already know, my blogs often start at the bar. I don’t think this is a coincidence – some of the most interesting conversations of my life happen while sitting in Finnigans at 3:30 on random Friday afternoons. Often after a beer or two, people will start to tell you how […]
Read More Spotting Sexism – The Enemy WithinHey readers! I hope you’re all having a wonderful start to your summer and are enjoying this beautiful weather! As those of you who follow our comments may have seen, I recently had a very lively and interesting debate with a reader about the very use of the word “feminism.” There are some people who […]
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