Column: Women's apologies undermine feminism
By Emilie Dawson | March 24, 2015Women of USC, I implore you: Please stop apologizing.
Women of USC, I implore you: Please stop apologizing.
Through a series of events I recently lost my Galaxy and was given an iPhone as a replacement.
Videos are posted almost daily of police using excessive force in the defense of fearing for their safety during trivial traffic stops.
Focus on singular body parts exacerbates attempts to see women as wholeThe popular opinion of 2014 seems to be of one mind and two.
It’s true that America leads the world in exactly two categories: largest military and highest percentage of population in jail. The latter could owe to the U.S.’s dual sovereignty, which allows states to hold their own laws and requires citizens to also abide by federal laws.
If you ask someone if they consider themselves a feminist, you’ll probably hear no more often than yes. Even at a liberal university like ours, people shy away from the term because it conjures up images of bra-burning, man-hating lesbians from the ’70s. Connotations aside, the real definition of a feminist is someone who advocates social, political, legal and economic rights of women to equal those of men — not someone who hates men or wants to bring them down.
Being an out-of-state student, I didn’t grow up in the state’s public school system. My dad taught at Lady’s Island Middle School in Beaufort for a year, and I thought I understood a bit about the system, but the state is filled with much more rural schools than Beaufort, and those schools are wallowing in disrepair and underfunding.
Some days you feel glad to be an American. Our government may be spying on us or shutting down over party disagreements, but at least we aren’t forcing our women to marry men they don’t want to.
It’s slightly mind-blowing how many different ways there are to work out. There are the classics, like jogging, biking, swimming and tennis; the dance centric, like zumba, hip-hop, aerobics and barre; the new wave, like body pump, Cross Fit, P90X; and on and on.
Right now, sufferers of PTSD and the other diseases marijuana could help with are given pharmaceutical concoctions made from various chemicals. With the organic and health food movement ongoing, why shouldn’t the drugs we put in our bodies be all-natural, too?