12th Blog Part 1: "From Yours to Mine"

12th Blog Assignment

Part I

http://alexlucasroyals13.blogspot.com/

My response to Alex Royal’s blog, “Assignment 2”:

I like your take on this assignment. I'm glad to hear your ideas about and awareness of feminism has been enlightened and changed. The problem is that people think the fight is over, that we did it, we won the right of equality. The truth is that the women's movement has won many battles for their cause but the war is far from over. The problem now is that the battles are less organized, the enemy is harder to pin point. The feminist waves of the past were driven by one huge issue that the people fighting for gender equality could all come together and fight for. Now, it's not so simple. The solution is making people aware of the problems equality is facing today and giving them ways to help in the cause. 

http://anthonyhenderson23.blogspot.com/

My response to Anthony Henderson’s blog, “Should Love be Painful??”:

This is an excellent post and I enjoy reading it. I too have never been a victim of physical violence/abuse but one of my dear friends did. She stayed with him even though he beat her, lying to her friends and family, until he almost killed her the night of our senior prom. No one even knew was abusing her until that night. The only reason she survived is because she accidentally pressed on her cellphone while he was beating her and it called her parents who could hear their daughter begging for her life and the voice of her then boyfriend yelling at her and beating her. They called the cops and sped to his house which was right next to mine. They got there and saved her within minutes of the call. If the cellphone hadn't miraculously called her parents she probably would have died that night. Everyone was supportive of her after that but we were all confused as to why she would stay with someone like him until literally the law had to separate them. She was a beautiful girl, made good grades, etc. etc. It's just that even when girls in those situations deserve more they have such low self-esteem or they have been beaten into submission that they think they can't do better or deserve what's being done to them. It's so sad. Family members and friends can help by paying close attention to the signs and not hesitating to ask.