My Reflection on Woman's Studies 1100:

This course as a whole was very informative. This course provides the information you need to empower yourself and others, a course about female struggles in history and why we are the way we are. Personally I have always been afraid of big groups of men, there is something about the group complexion where if one person gets something going the rest will follow that has always made me tremble. Recently I have been telling my friends that I am a Feminist and just finishing the article “Why I’m a Feminist” written by Lauren Anderson backs me up with my decision, and I find it quite comforting. There is something so soothing about this course, the material is scary, complex, and statistically and emotionally based and yet I find a comfort within it all. The classroom complexity of women and few men is space to breathe, I love the men in the class and I automatically respect them and find trust in the simple fact that they chose, on their own, to sit down and be informed. Feminism is such a scattered topic because people are not united in the definition, but my definition is that you are a Feminist if you stand against domestic abuse, discrimination, animal abuse, and oppression in any and every scenario. Woman’s Studies as a course should be rather mandatory, if men could see that women are not just sitting in a classroom crying and arguing over the hatred, maybe they would open their eyes to the damage that is done to the female gender on a daily basis. My own consciousness is more aware, eyes open and heart open, to everything that goes on around me. I no longer hate other women just because of their looks or something they might have said. I now feel I have lingered into an overall understanding of why the female gender feels the need to guard themselves every second of everyday. The biggest part of my reflection are the statistics, hardcore, organized information that highlights are the pain and sorrow that flutters around the lives of women. Sometimes it takes physical evidence to even start suspicion, but physical evidence shouldn’t be needed in courtrooms. Women are abused just because they are women and this is so disgusting and rather “slave-like.” The female gender and all of it’s different cultures and generations should not be subject to abuse simply because we don’t have a penis. What if everybody thought that way? What if everybody took this course and opened their eyes? I wonder if people would act differently at parties, I wonder if men would respect their girlfriends more. I wonder if society would look in the mirror and realize how disgusting the law is when it doesn’t prevent violence against women. I just wonder if everything could change simply because of statistics and realizing what they mean, each individual stat, I think it could. I honestly think more people would change if they were informed of everything that occurs against women every day. That maybe if we could convince men of what the women’s perspective looks like nowadays, they wouldn’t want to open their eyes and follow through. I wonder if men could handle it, but with all that muscle and build, I don’t think they would stand a chance. Men need to open their eyes and women need to do everything in their power to get men to inform men. If gender is supposed to stand together, then men who understand need to inform others. Feminism is not as complex of a subject as people believe it to be and Feminists are regular people striving for a better world. Stand together, stand strong, stand forever.