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Female students at this time were considered to just be a\u00a0distraction\u00a0<\/em>to males. Instead of judging the integration of women on how they bring a level of perspective and fresh thought to the school, it’s more important to judge how distracted men are by women.<\/p>\n Because instead of women having any value on their own we always must sexualize them and knock them down a step by inferring that they are here as a companion for men.<\/p>\n This makes me sick.<\/p>\n The thing is, this type of thinking isn’t a thing of the past.<\/p>\n There still is a wage gap between men and women, women still face constant sexual harassment in the workplace and beyond and women are still shamed and blamed for being victims of rape.<\/p>\n Feminism itself is a trigger word! Smh.<\/p>\n If you type feminism into google the definition given is, and I quote, “the advocacy of women’s rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes.”<\/p>\n WOW PRETTY RADICAL STUFF!!<\/p>\n No it’s the most basic of human rights. The idea that women should have the same rights and opportunities as men should be a given, but its not and even today way too men are afraid to call themselves feminists.<\/p>\n How is it that calling yourself a feminist is such a revolutionary idea??<\/p>\n We all need to be feminists because America is a place where we are supposed to have equal rights for all.<\/p>\n Calling yourself a feminist doesn’t make you an enemy to men, but instead, a supporter of women, who by the way don’t need<\/strong> our support.<\/p>\n We have to put an end to hurtful stigma such as saying guys\u00a0“throw like a girl” or assuming women have their period whenever they are not overly pleasant. Throwing like a girl should be a compliment and women shouldn’t be pleasant with men all the time because I know we don’t deserve it.<\/p>\n As G.D. Anderson said: “Feminism isn’t about making women stronger. Women are already strong. It’s about changing the way the world perceives their strength.”<\/p>\n We must stop shaming, discriminating and sexualizing women because women are just as important to this world as men, if not more so.<\/p>\n So maybe next time someone asks you to describe yourself, use the term feminist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One more thing I learned in my archive adventure in the Santa Clara Library is that Santa Clara used to be a single gendered school. It used to be only men. Now this is fairly common for universities to start … Continue reading