I don't know where I stand thought wise when it comes to todays movie, On one hand I do sympathize with the step mother, Even though at first she didn't necessarily deal with the abuse that well at the end she really did do the best that she could do and I respect that however I can understand the pain that that child was going through I mean can you imagine being in that situation where your own father is raping you and you tell your step mother expecting her to help and as far as you can see she is doing nothing. That has got to hurt. So I guess you could say that I feel sympathy for both the step mother and the child, That leaves the father. Maybe Im harsh or a bitch . . . But I cant begin to fathom what would give somebody the idea that they are entitled or that it is acceptable to rape there own daughter. I just cant understand. As far as the community its self goes well we see every day people who see outrageous stuff happening but don't do anything to help for fear that it iwll effect them, Kitty Genovese was brutally raped and murdered 30+ people heard her screams and no one called the police until she was already dead. Where do we as humans determine that we are responsible for the well being of our fellow humans ?
This is becoming more sociology then womens studies so I shall bid thee adieu


Yesterday Love was such an easy game to play
Now I need a place to hide away
Oh I believe in yesterday
Yesterday~The Beatles

ughhhhhh

So me and Devin went to rob roys tonight to meet up with the doyle girls, I have class tommorow so I didnt drink also Im at this point where I dont see the use in drinking, I also chose to wear jeans and a HOODIE !!!! Well little good that did me!!

Walking across the bar to find kater some creepoid grabs my hand and gives me some skeezy wink! I elbowed him . . . .

Point proven ?? Dress is not an issue . . . .



They're saying
Don't ask why just wear what we say
You'll look like a model if you only obey
to get the attention just do what we say
Clothes~barlow girl


but what if I dont want the attention??

I think its sad how we define a persons value . . . Alot of people think of this in terms of the picton trial, I think about it in terms of K (initials used to protect privacy) When I was in grade 10 K joined our class she had just moved from the city and we bonded over mutual friends etc. She was an AMAZING person feisty,caring,smart and just alla round awsome. K was also troubled the reason she moved from the city was because of problems with drugs etc, This never meant anything to me, To me she was just K.

K left our class abrubtly, Later we found out it was because she ran away I didnt stp thinking about her but I juat assumed she was fine. That summer I had just gotten back from camp and fell asleep on the couch. The next morning my mom woke me up and asked if I knew a girl named K I was groggy and said yes without placing the name. However I woke up and asked why. Att his point my mom explained to me that they had identified her as the dead girl who was found dead in a park. I was shocked to shocked to comprehend here was this amazing girl dead at 15 her body found discarded like a peice of garbage.

K was not a bad person in any means at 15 you havnt had a chance to be bad she had barely started living her life by the time it was taken away from her. Sure she made mistakes she did run away she did do drugs and there were rumors of her prostituting herself. But why should that matter???? I dont care what she did I would have done anythign to help her . . . But it dosnt change anything. She was a person a friend daughter neice grand daughter just like me just like you. So why should her death mean any less?

Ks death was not treated unfairly, because of her age there was media coverage etc so this probally isnt they best example. I just dont think its right to judge someone or feel that they as people are less valuble because they are just as valuble as anyone else.



My little sister is a Zombie in a body with no soul
A role she has learned to play in a world today
where nothing else matters
But it matters, we gotta start feeding our souls
Hey little sister I heard you went to Mr. So and So
Knock, knock, knockin' on his door again last night
Said you needed more
Little Sister~Jewel

The past few classes the Montreal Massacre has been brought up in discussion, In those discussions it also gets brought up whether or not the issue of gender violence has improved. My first instinct was to respond with a yes it has but after more thought I was startled to realize that it hasn't at all. not only are we as a society still dealing with issues such a spousal abuse and acquaintance or date rape but even issues of mass violence against women have not been eliminated from society.

Take for example an event in the United States this October that made headlines all over the globe 32 year old Charles Carl Roberts walked into a one room Amish school house and shot and killed 5 girls execution style after asking the male students to leave the class room. This was a chilling reminder of the events that occurred at L'Ecole Polytechnique less then 20 years earlier.

What in our society makes crimes against females so much more common then crimes against males? Especially violent crimes such as these? I know that men are sexually assaulted and are victims of these types of crimes, Just today I read that the parents of a recently found kidnapped boy believes he was abused. But whens the last time you heard of females being asked to leave a room while the males were shot ? I'm yet to hear of this occurring.

The other thing that got me in class today was a video on date rape . . . This has been a topic that always gets to me. But what gets to me the most is when guys come up with he excuse of "oh well she said no but didn't mean it" or "well look how she was dressed she was asking for it" Should females be expected to wear burkas just to avoid the misconception that they want to get laid? I'm sorry I like to look decent when I leave my room, I like to show people that I respect myself and take time into making myself look decent I don't think I should be penalized for that.

I'm going to end this before I become very angry and start to sound hateful and immature.


"Get off of my bed
Yeah, thats what I said
Did i not tell you that I'm not like that
Girl the one who throws it all away
Did you think that I was gonna give it up to
You this time"

Avril Lavigne~Dont tell me

So a quick introduction for anyone who happened to randomly stumble across this blog, Im a 19 year old student at MUN taking pre social work and as a pre req course I need to take Womens Studies 2000 part of this course is keeping a reflective journal on the topics discussed. So this will be my reflective journal, I wanted to keep a blog for a few reasons so I'm going to quickly discuss those and then get into the actual journal part (probably in a separate post just to keep things organized)

The first reason I wanted to keep a blog as opposed to a hard copy journal was because I realized recently that there are a lot of myths and misconceptions surrounding womens studies programs as a whole and I wanted to clear some of that up.

Secondly I wanted to give a voice to some of the issues discussed, And this is a unique platform to do that. Why have a voice if your not going to use it?

Third I thought blogging would be a bit more efficient and the idea just seemed cool.

If you have any questions comments etc feel free to leave a comment on the blog (all comments are moderated by me before being published)