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Cute Video For Your New Year’s Eve!
I have been in love with Joseph Gordon Levitt since his 10 Things I Hate About You days so finding this video of him and
Zooey Deschanel made my day. I hope that it will brighten yours!
Speak With Conviction
A friend posted this video on Facebook yesterday and I wanted to share it with you!
As funny as the poem is, the truth it reveals is scary–
my generation does preface statements with unnecessary things.
We phrase things as questions.
We add unnecessary words.
Why?
Because we’re scared.
We’re scared our opinions don’t matter or that no one will want to hear them.
We’re scared to look stupid in front of our peers or worse in front of our professors.
We’re scared that we really are “the stupidest generation yet” just like they report in the papers.
This poem tells it like it is.
In order to be taken seriously, we have to speak seriously.
In order to be accepted as intellectual beings, we have to drop our “ums” our “likes” and our “you knows”.
In order to prove to ourselves we are worthy we have to state our opinions without fear and
use declarative sentences.
International Women’s Day
I’ve heard more about International Women’s Day while in England
than I ever did in the US.
Sure it might be that over here, I’m taking a course many would consider feminist
(Beyond Plath: Modern American Women Poets)
which gives me more time to talk about the injustices against women,
but I think it’s more than that.
There’s something more politicized about femininity in the UK, or at least a greater understanding among
women of their bodies as a politicized space.
Perhaps that has to do with a greater amount of political involvement over here in general.
So in honor of International Women’s Day…
Today, I’ve tried to listen.
Listen to the more politically aware voices around me.
Listen to the young women in my classes who speak with a fervor
about feminism than I’ve never seen.
Listen to the debates on British television over “woman’s place”
What are you doing for IWD?
