Don't Complain Then...
I am doing a news report for my school's news program. This required me interviewing several individuals on National Women's History Month. I think that the month is important for contemporary times, because most individuals are not taught about females that have made a significant impact on history. We are not taught about Alice Paul, Ida B Wells, Elizabeth Blackwell, Lucretia Mott, Abigail Adams. So, I interviewed people to ask them what they know about women historical figures -
And then two bitchy blonde girls walk by, tennis rackets on their backs, one slightly chubby, the other one wearing her lean muscle poorly and said the thing that would irritate me most throughout the whole day. This was a day filled with people that didn't want to talk to me because I had a camera, too.
These girls told me that they wouldn't help me with my project because they didn't know any women's historical figures. I told them that's why I was doing the report, to show the deficit between what we are taught of women and men - and then they told me that they didn't need a national women's history month.
I am tired of hearing girls bitch and complain about not having role models, about how they have to learn about only men, and then when March comes around, when a class project to focus on a women comes around, they bitch and complain about how it isn't important.
It is important. It is very important, and until textbooks are intigrated with a variety of minorities than black history month and national women's history month still have a mission. We shouldn't have to set aside a month, but maybe it will make people passionate enough to want to ensure a more divisified historical education. So don't complain about something, and then simultaneously say that there isn't a need for it. Don't complain of a lack, without an attempt to do something to fill it.
By the way, today is International Women's Day.
And then two bitchy blonde girls walk by, tennis rackets on their backs, one slightly chubby, the other one wearing her lean muscle poorly and said the thing that would irritate me most throughout the whole day. This was a day filled with people that didn't want to talk to me because I had a camera, too.
These girls told me that they wouldn't help me with my project because they didn't know any women's historical figures. I told them that's why I was doing the report, to show the deficit between what we are taught of women and men - and then they told me that they didn't need a national women's history month.
I am tired of hearing girls bitch and complain about not having role models, about how they have to learn about only men, and then when March comes around, when a class project to focus on a women comes around, they bitch and complain about how it isn't important.
It is important. It is very important, and until textbooks are intigrated with a variety of minorities than black history month and national women's history month still have a mission. We shouldn't have to set aside a month, but maybe it will make people passionate enough to want to ensure a more divisified historical education. So don't complain about something, and then simultaneously say that there isn't a need for it. Don't complain of a lack, without an attempt to do something to fill it.
By the way, today is International Women's Day.