Gina Rodriguez Fight for Equality

Gina Rodriguez is an actress who is known for her role as Jane from the television show Jane the Virgin. She is a big advocate for equality whether it is racial or gender. She has said many times that she wants to be a successful actress in all senses not just as a Latina. She recently worked with LUNA on pushing a campaign for equal pay. She says three things women need to do are "Understand Your Worth," "Change Your Perspective," and "Start a Conversation." Women need to know their are valuable, hard workers and they deserve to be paid the same as men. They cannot stay silent because then they will get no where. They need to make themselves heard if they wish to see a change. She also does a video ad where she speaks of how women need to speak up and fight. She is seen practicing boxing, which just helps push the idea of female empowerment. She looks strong, and it motivates me to want to fight too.
LUNA ad
Three things for equal pay

Shameless... Purity Ball

Soo I just started watching the show Shameless, and it is very open about sex. There are multiple sex scenes, however that is not the point. There is a family made up of a father, mother and daughter. The father is very religious and is always lecturing his daughter. He tells his daughter he would give her a car if she were to renew her virginity and attend a purity balls with him. He starts to say this is his job to protect her and her virginity. He is very controlling and does not trust her to make any decisions. At the purity ball, the girls are forced to explain their sexual encounters to their fathers and everyone else in the room. They all seem embarrassed and uncomfortable because who wants to talk about their sexual encounters in front of their father. Most of the stories involve touching genitalia, but penetrative sex. However, when it comes to Karen the daughter she goes into detail about all the times she has oral sex and penetrative sex. Her father becomes enraged and calls her a whore. He basically destroyed her because after this she dyes and cuts her hair. She starts to have more sex and be more reckless with who she has sex with. It was a roller coaster because this father could not accept that his child was a sexual being.
Purity Ball scene

If women were in charge

More videos, soo as I scrolled to facebook and saw a video about what would happen if women were in charge of the government. The video starts with a bunch of women surrounding a table saying they need to make laws which will ensure that men will make the right choices.  So its basically what the lawmakers do now since they do not trust us to make the right decisions when it comes to our bodies such as health care or abortions. They say that men can cum or produce sperm unless it is to produces life. They also go on to say there should be an extra tax to their products just like there is on females' products, the pink tax. There needs to be more testing on Viagra and physicians can pull it if they feel it goes against their religious belief. This is basically what happens with abortions and birth control. This video really puts in perspective what lawmakes do to women, but in a way that men can understand.
If women were in charge

F**k It

In honor of International Women's Day a t-shirt company called FCKH8 did a promotion in which a series of young girls curse and say "Fuck it." They start off saying "pretty" and then they go on a tirade saying they aren't some pretty fucking helpless damsel in distress. They go on to address pay inequality, sexual assault, and other issues. This organization helps by donating proceeds to help fight inequality. Even better in the end there is a boy in a dress pointing out when it is said it is bad to act like a girl then you are just saying it is bad to be a girl. This video caught my attention because it is soo strange to see little girls in dresses cursing. I honestly loved it because it had my attention, and it was a great cause. However, not a lot of people felt the same way as you can tell from the comments under the video. An example is "Those who actually think that having young children dropping the F bomb is a good way of getting a point across or to share facts, you are absolutely delusional. This is ridiculous. A foul mouth gets you nowhere and doesn't make you a strong confident female." So basically people were offended by cursing, but that's not the point. Cursing is seen as unladylike which is why these girls were doing it. It was too show a contrast. I have a potty mouth, and I curse a good amount of the time. The amount of times I have had people say to me that is not ladylike and it makes me ugly is unfathomable. It is just crazy because curses are just words that we have put a negative connotation on.
FUCK IT

Trump v Planned Parenthood

Well, it is official Trump found his loophole to defund Planned Parenthood. He just recently signed a bill allowing states to withhold federal funding from Planned Parenthood. Now this puts the power in the states' hands but we have learned from the book Pushed that this will affect many people in the central and southern regions of America. In these places there are only a few if not only one Planned Parenthood for the state; this already shows how resistant these states are to Planned Parenthood. Now the states can cut the funding, which will make it very difficult to keep these clinics open. However, they do not realize that not one penny from federal funding goes to abortion, which let's be real is their main concern. I just find it frustrating that now these women who want affordable healthcare or even abortion now have to go through a greater inconvenience. Instead of travelling across the state now they must travel to different states to find the closest Planned Parenthood. I am so done with men making decisions over women's bodies and healthcare. This does not effect them so they should not have a say. We need more women in government fighting for this because right now this is ridiculous. However, I guess it is good that he has not completely pulled the funding. There are still states that will allow the funding to go to Planned Parenthood, which is great.

Emma Watson

Emma Watson is a known advocate for feminism and female rights. She speaks at UN conferences in behalf of women, which is amazing. She has educated herself and become very mature. She spoke at a UN conference about feminism and how if you don't like the word then don't go by it. However, you should still support the principle of it. You should still want equality of the genders and most people do but they are scared to put on the label feminist. Feminist has recently been given a negative connotation which is similarly to women who hate men. This is not true, and people should educate themselves. Feminism is beneficial to everyone; girls should be allowed to play sports and boys should be allowed to express their emotions. I used to be one of those people that wouldn't label myself a feminist because I was afraid of the judgement that I would face. However I always believed in feminist ways; I believe women should be treated as equals to men. Women should be able to work, and men should be allowed to express themselves. So why was I not calling myself a feminist when I clearly was. I have owned the title feminist, and I am much more verbal about my beliefs. This has come with some complications because most people do not like verbal feminist. This past spring break when I was home I was speaking to my uncle and his came up to him and asked him for permission to go out. I interjected and said she didn't need to ask him for permission because she is a grown woman with her own money. My mother proceeded to say "Sorry ever since college. Dulce has become a feminist." I lost it and told them yes I am a feminist and I will express my opinion. It was just crazy because I always had these beliefs and no one had a problem with it until I started to express them. I understand that people are afraid to label themselves feminist, but they should still verbalize their beliefs in equality because how else do we change this misogynistic world.

Emma Watson UN conference

The price of being a woman

I saw this video on Facebook a while back. It is a poem called "Woman Card." It is a satire to advertisements in which it is selling the Woman Card aka just being a woman. It starts off saying that being a woman allows you to get away with things like being irrational, flirting your way into bars and out of speeding tickets. However, it comes with a price which 78 cents to the man's dollar, and 64 cents if you are a minority. It also has conditions such as feminine hygiene and other female products. It also points off if your card is color, then you will experience higher expenses and more oppression. It goes on to explain the injustices that women face and how it solely because they are women. This is a gag video, but it points out very prominent issues that women face in society. It also helps point out a serious issue in a way that won't offend people, which is good because many people get offended by feminism. Although it makes no sense because feminism is just wanting equality of the genders. However, many people don't understand which is why messages such as this must come in a light heard, joking manner.