We Hold These Truths to Be Self-Evident: That All Men, AND Women, are Created Equal."

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 As a woman, I have had to overcome certain obstacles that only those of my gender could understand.  I have been harassed in the streets, overlooked, belittled, and joked about, just for having a vagina... and its 2012!  I chose chapter 3 because, well, I get it!  I owe it to the women of Seneca Falls, NY, 1848!  They are the courageous women who got the ball rolling! 

  

     Of course, the problems those women had to overcome seem more obvious than those we face today.  Women didn't have the right to vote, heck they didn't have the rights to their own children if they chose divorce!  Somehow, our Constitution has made this small error time, and time again.  They forgot to include all people when they stated "We, the people."  Why did this extreme inequality exist?  Well according to Rodger Streitmatter, it was believed that "She was considered, by nature, to be incapable of serious thought or important decision making."  Isn't it terrible that such thoughts still breathe life today?  Women in the workforce are lucky to make 80% that of their equally qualified male counterparts!  Women still have to walk the streets in fear when they decide to walk alone, always cautioned of men who believe they have the RIGHT to harass them!  I chose this chapter because the Feminist movement needs to press on!  Men and women alike, blindly believe that the women of the Suffragist Movement have long accomplished what they sought out for, instead of seeing it for what it was, just the beginning!

     The first magazine directed toward women was Ladies Magazine.  Not unlike the publications "created for women" today, this magazine was owned and published by a man.  The very place women swarmed for information on how to be a "proper" woman, was sabotage, BRAINWASHING!  Within its very pages it would just come out and make smug statements like "The number of women who have solid judgement is very small." Maybe it seems obvious to us today that this is clearly a sexist statement, but is it that different from what the pages of our most popular women's magazines say now?  Instead of being overtly obvious in its intent, it hides behind the millions of images that all portray a women's worth in the amount of beauty she possesses!  It's disgusting!