soo I guess I shoudl apologise first for my little hiatus. So Im sorry ! I just want to do a last update now that the class is over kinna a good bye thing . . . sentimental much?

so I guess I should maybe actually do something current we ended class talking baout employment, I think its silly that a women will be doing the same job as a man but wont get payed the same POO. As far as Im concerned you should get what you give if you give the same effort as a man you should get paid the same.

Secondly . . . stay at home moms. Do a hell of a job and deserve to get the recognition and commendation that they deserve! It has been said that beeing a stay at home parent is equal to a full tiem job and it is! These parents deserve respect and admiration and not critizism or judgment. Also if a girl decides that she wants to be a stay at home mom then I believe that her choice should be accepted. nuff said.

My final project is done over with and presented I did a short video on prostitution and you can find it online here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4BjP7ebgNY a small warning that in the 3 am rush to finish it I uploaded the wrong copy so there are a few spellign errors . . . content people content :)


So on to the grand finale . . . I guess I should maybe say if I actually learned something in the class and I did but it might not be what you had in mind. I learnt that my oppinions are my oppinions and I have the right and responsibility to stick by those opinions no matter what, I learnt that beign open minded is sometimes just another word for close minded and most importantly I meant that you are always going to encounter opposition but thats what makes life interesting.

Don’t think I’ll confess
Why would I confess that I
Don’t think I’ll deny
Why would I deny that I
Tegan and Sarah~Dont confess

Hate begets hate and thats pretty sad.

I think the most emotionally draining part of the laramie project was when somebody was discussing the juror selection for one of the trials.

This guys friends family acquaintances were able to stand in front of him and say that they would be able to sentence him to death.

Why must we use hate as a punishment for hate ? Why cant we just focus on learning maybe being proactive and working on whats causing these issues in society ?

What those 2 boys did was WRONG it was despicable sickening disgusting and scary. But will killing them bring Matt back ? No.

I really liked Mr.Sheppards courtroom speech those 2 will learn more by waking up every morning and knowing what they did they they would have learned by being sentenced to death.

Its hard for me to say who I feel sympathy for I feel horrible for the killers families, the Sheppard family and truthfully the whole community of Laramie. I feel sympathy for the killers in some ways because they have to live with that and that must feel awful and I feel horrible that they felt that that was ok. What a lonely world they must live in.

But mostly I feel sorry for the kids who are being brought into a world so full of hate. And for anyone in society who has felt any type of that hate. And for those who have demonstrated that hate. I guess I just feel bad for everyone.

Man once sang to me
Look at you saving the world on your own
And I wonder how things gonna be
Cos the time here it passes so slow
In a city of devils we live
A city of devils we live
Find somebody to learn
Boy you gotta love someone more than yourself
I can feel the fire of the city lights burn
It's hard to find angels in hell
Yellowcard~City of devils

I don't really want to write about the laramie project until we've seen the rest of the movie however I do really recommend that anyone who has not seen this film go out and watch it ASAP.


I also want to clear up what I think is a misconception, Christianity does not promote homophobia, I know it can appear to because yes the bible does say that homosexuality is wrong (truthfully Im completely undecided) HOWEVER it also states that two main "rules" for Christianity are love God and love your neighbor. It teaches love compassion and acceptance and I am sorry if anyone has given given another idea.

Me and a friend of mine are both Christians we both wear "Outlive homophobia" bracelets because we don't think it is fair for someone to think that God or Society hates them for something like that. I think the idea of hating someone for their sexuality is stupid and wrong and sickening . . . Hate itself is all of those things.

Just wanted to clear that up because sometimes I feel that because of a few peoples actions Christianity has been misrepresented. Kind of unrelated but definitely important.

I've heard what they say, but I'm not here for trouble.
James Blunt~Tears and rain

This isnt going to be the main topic of my blog for today but I do want to clarify what I said in class and also get some other things off my chest.

To start I am not "Pro life" NOR am I "Pro Choice" I refuse to join any official type of "movement" On the abortion topic because I feel that no matter where you stand you get shot at. Nor do I know what is right for me because I have never had to choose.

HOWEVER I do staunchly believe that when a person engages in sexual intercourse they need to be AWARE of the consequences and they need to be PREPARED for those consequences. For someone to say "Oh well I didnt have sex expecting to get pregnant" Is not an excuse . . . Most rapeists dont rape expectign to get caught does that mean that if they do get caught then they should not be held accountable for there actions? If a person has taken precautions used a condom/is on the pill etc etc and then happen to get pregnant well whatever they want to do is up to them at least they were proactive before hand and took some action.

Im also not against the legalization of abortion . . . At least now its safe and I do believe that a women has the right to be safe in whatever choice she makes.

She had her eye across the street
On someone shy and tall
We lived our dreams
And challenged fate
In tears she told me she was late
And sally let his pigeons out to fly...
On the dresser sits a frame
With a photograph
Two little girls in ponytails
Some twenty one years back
She left one night with just a nod
Was lost from some back alley job
Sallys Pigeons~Cyndi Lauper

The one thing that I will advocate fully is that Abortion is not a form of birth control, The pill the patch the needle are forms of birth control they keep fertilization from occuring. Abortion is killing a fetus and eventhough it is a part of the mother it is still its own being. Killing a fetus and preventing the fetus from being formed are two completly different things.

Can't you see, it's not me you're dying for.
Now she's feeling more alone, than she ever has before.
She's alone, and I'm alone, now I know it.
Brick~Ben Folds Five

Now for the more important allthough shorter part, Im really excited for my term project I decided on a video on childhood prostitution in canada. I know at first glimpse it dosnt seem to be an issue facign women in canada today but these children grwo up to be women. Also it perpetuates cycles of abuse etc etc Im excited. Working on it is sort of depressing but still interesting.

It sounded like somebody else that was talkin'
Askin' mama what do i do
She said just be nice to the gentlemen fancy
And they'll be nice to you
Fancy~Reba Mcentire

I don't think that the correct argument is "Is abortion ok" I think that the argument needs to be "Is abortion murder?" And when you get into this argument there are very convincing arguments for both sides.

One being that until the infant is born it is an extension of the mother and therefor it is her choice to do with it what she wants. However a new Alberta law has made it legal for children to sue parents for damages that were incurred while the child was in the womb, But only in the case of a car accident. This law was in response to the Canadian legislation that provinces could allow a child to sue its parents, but only in the case of a car accident.

So if a child can sue for damages that are incurred in the womb then does that not seem to operate under the same guise that an unborn child has rights separate from the mothers while in the womb?

The fact that there is no legal definition for a fetus further darkens the issue. It is fully understandable for a pro choice believer to use the fact that the fetus is simply a lump of tissue and therefor should not be considered as a human child. Many pro life activists rebuke this claim with biological "timetables" stating fetus development.

Another important issue when considering abortion is the relatively newer ability to screen for disabilities at certain stages of fetal development. People argue that this allows society to eliminate people with disabilities it is also argued that because the testing can not decipher between levels of severity that it is unfair to abort based on the results. However many people will argue that aborting can save a child years of suffering or will save unprepared parents from having a child that they can not effectively parent.

My views on abortion? I don't know for sure I'm a Christian and because of that I do believe that abortion is murder I find it hard to see the difference between aborting an infant in the womb and taking a newborn and denying it food or oxygen. However Ive also never been in a situation where Ive had to seriously consider abortion maybe if I was my beliefs would change. I guess its hard to tell. At this point though as far as abortion being a right, Well I don't see murder as being a right. I also believe that if a child who is born can sue its parents for damages caused in the womb then if that child were killed then it would have been able to charge for murder. Like I said though this belief could change. We never really have a full perspective on any issue until we have experienced it.

I believe that the abortion debate will never be easily solved I also believe that the Canadian government needs to put a comprehensive definition out for a fetus and to what extent a fetus should have constitutional rights.

I chose two songs for the lyrics today because I wanted songs that looked at the issue from both sides, I originally made this psot without lyrics but then I decided I wanted them in. I believe that through music we can see issues in a way that makes them less intimidating thats why you find lyrics in my blog.

And then she heads for the clinic
and she gets some static walkin' through the doors
They call her a killer, and they call her a sinner, and they call her a whore
God forbid you ever had to walk a mile in her shoes
'Cause then you really might know what it's like to have to choose
Everlast~What its like

Mommy I dont like this clinic
Hopefully you'll make the right decision
And dont go through with the Knife incision
But it's hard to make the right move
When you in high school
How you have to work all day and take night school
Hopping off da bus when the rain is pouring
What you want morning sickness or the sickness of mourning
Nick Canon~Can I live

I read the reserve articles . . . I really liked the one on plastic surgery and the one on supremacy crimes. But the one on becoming 100% straight irritated me because of all the sports analogy's as for the other two ?

Truthfully the annoyed be beyond all belief I got this vibe from both of them that they were telling me how the world is as opposed to what they believe the world is, I got this vibe like I should automatically agree with everything they said. Well I have a surprise for them NO ONE tells me what to think or how to think it.

Onto other news . . .
Vagina monologues are over *tear* You know at first I was really nervous about them because some of the subject matter can be very well blunt. But as it went further and especially the two production nights I realized that it was more then the monologues itself, What mattered was all of us coming together such a diverse group and all of OUR monologues OUR stories . . . Thats what mattered. Looking at how something like that can change a life, Bring people together, Inspire change and just wow . . . Simply put its amazing.

I dont really know what else to say . . . Im out.


This is all there is, i can see that now
But I have to be careful with it, now its been found, yeah
So fragile, but powerful, yeah this is the light
This is the light of my destiny, come stay with me, through every night
Imogen Heap~Candlelight

I want to start by saying that the movie "tough guise" really irritated me, Allthough the content was good and interesting I felt like the guy kept saying the same thing over and over and over again. I wish I had counted the number of times he went back to media . . . And what made it worse was he would talk about media then another influence and then go back to media so at first I was like huh what ? trying to follow what was going on and then it just started to go on repeat.

Now that thats out . . . I really did like the content of the movie I felt that alot of it was right on and I think Id like to talk to some of my guy friends about it to see what they think just so that I know. I liked the little bits of knowledge about how guns have become bigger as have male bodies yet female bodies are getting smaller. I was absoloutly APALLED at the howard stern comments though . . . It still amazes me that in todays society something like a school shooting could be used for humor and on top of that using rape as a part of it . . . It made me physically ill to hear those comments.

I was trying to think of places that guys were misrepresented or given weird ideas for what they should be that wearnt mentioned in the movie and I came up with the fact that we as females do it all the time probably without realizing it. Unconciously we tend to gravitate towards the males me find attractive (You can not tell personality from across the room) I know that they do it to but I think that both genders need to work on that. Another place where I think some work needs to be done is this conception that a guy who isnt interested in sex is a virgin or flawed, Im a christian and because of this I have met sooo many completly amazing and good lookig guys who are ot interested in hooking up or w/e and I think it makes them that much cooler. However not everyone seems to see it that way . . .

CASE STUDY
I know an amazing boy . . . absoloutly amazing were really close and we get along great hes 18 good lucking athletic well educated goal oriented overall good guy. He has never had a GF or kissed a girl at 18 when I mentioned this to one of my close friends her first reaction was "is he deformed?"


I think we can judge them in the opposite sense though I know a girl who recently started dating a guy. One of the the first questions she wanted answered before she started dating him was how many girls he had slept with. She said that if it had been a large number she would have jokingly called him a slut but would have gotten over it, Another thing she said was that her reasoning was she would liek to know how many girls she was in turn sleeping with. I think this makes alot of sense and I dont know many girls who would say its not justified. So why is it ok for us but not guys?

I think its really sad the the completly rotten guys have given all guys a bad reputation to the point where girls and guys can have the same manurisms but if a girl does it its fine but if the guy does it hes doing it maliciously. . . I dunno


Made of plastic and elastic
He is rugged and long-lasting
Who could ever ever ask for more
Coin Operated Boy-Dresden Dolls