Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Grade 12 IB B2 and 11 IB B1: Due before Monday, October 3rd

Browse the following blog:
http://www.menspeakup.org/

Write a reaction to one of the posts. Comment on at least one other classmates' post.

13 comments:

  1. In the article "Women Need More Seats" the author who is a girl and also the Co-Founder of JESS3 is talking about the injustice that women have to suffer. The statistics she uses surprised me a lot because I didn't know that so little women could do and have what almost every men can do and almost half has. one thing about this article which I like a lot is the fact that the author wrote also what other important girls think about women's rights and also that she wrote many statistics about women voting and working equally as men do. I also like that even if she is a very powerful women because of the company she Co-Founded she still wants women to have the same rights as men even though she has. I think that i a women reads this article she will become more motivated to fight to gain the same rights.

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  2. It is absolutely true that usually when we hear about sexual violence we immediately think about a woman been raped by a man. That’s justified by the fact that most of the times, when we hear about a news on sexual abuse by medias such as newspapers, radios or t.v., it is about a man committing such an degraded act toward the other sex. Also, it is very less common to encounter a homosexual person. But, as the article says: “while never forgetting that men's sexual violence disproportionally targets women, men are all too often victims as well”; and we shall never forget this. My first the reaction to the story of the episode this loved t.v. show was a bit disturbed, even though when I hear news like this I ask myself: why didn’t the players say anything? Those strong sportive man were afraid? I really can’t understand why be quite when your own body is being victim of an abuse.

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  3. In this article the author, who's a woman wants to motivate women to increase their role in society. She wants women to catch up the gap between male and female. She gives us many statistics which shows us the huge difference we have between the two genders. She criticizes women because she says that now that they have the same level of education of men they should have the same role, and gives us many common explanations like that women care to much about family. She then gives us some examples of women that had success. In fact the author's aim is to work to inspire through interviews with women who have negotiated hard, founded their own companies, taken time to be a mom, been elected, lead a congregation, earned a prominent seat at the table and everything in between. This article should inspire women to do their best to obtain important positions, and to diminish the gap between genders.

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  4. In the blog entry "Women Need More Seats" the author wants to discuss and hear what the readers says about the injustice that women had to have. While reading just the title we can hypothesize that the author is a woman, in fact she is a woman, more precisely the Co-Founder of JESS3. She gives of the statistics of what women can do women, not of 50-100 years ago, and they are pretty unbelievable. I can't understand why women are treated differently, maybe they aren't as strong as men, but many women are even more intelligent than men. She also published what other women think about this unfairness. A thing that in my modest opinion is missing is the proofs of things that women did better or, at least, as men, to demonstrate the power of women.

    Roberto D.

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  5. In the article "Differences Between Men and Women are Perceived" by Matthew Johnson is described the main disease of our nowadays society. I believe that there should not be any difference between the two genders, while we continuously hear about women who stand aggressions, or others who have to put up with violence attitudes even in the work place.
    Our west culture is trapped in those “ancient” traditional roles that characterize and emphasizes the dichotomy between women and men. Probably in an approximate future societies will develop and we will see a woman as president of the United States of America, hoping that this binary society will soon change.

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  6. Federico NotarnicolaOctober 2, 2011 at 9:10 PM

    In the blog article "1 is 2 many", the Vice president Biden, in the video he tells that women and young girls are being raped. In schools they suffer violence from men. This message is obviously directed to men that tells us to step up and finish this and defend the women.
    To Vittoria: I agree that the west culture is "trapped" and that in the future we will see a women leading countries.

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  7. In the blog “Gloomy update on sexual assault in the military” by Jacob Hutt , is the report , The Department of Defense Inspector General's office is supposed to oversee all sexual assault investigations within the military, but none of the nearly 2,600 cases were passed through that office this year, the GAO said. The DOD was told to develop a policy for handling and investigating sexual assault cases in 2006, but has done none of this in the five years since.

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  8. In the article "Bathroom buddies: An opportunity for men to counter sexism" Chloe writes about the episode that a male friend of hers encountered.Her friend was in the male's restroom, during a wedding, while he herd two other men talking in a vulgar and maschilistic way about women. Chloe says that it was a good opportunity for her friend to scold these two men and to fight a presumed act of maschilism. When I red this article it made me laugh fot it shows what most men think about women. Most men have always reacted in this way towards women and I think it will always be like this because some men have a restricted view of women. The passive reaction of Chloe's friend shows that this problem will persist in eternity since no one, especially no men, will ever bother to face the problem of sexism.

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  9. The article "Bathroom buddies: An opportunity for men to counter sexism" is an example of sexism. I think that Chloe was right because her friend should have said something to the maschilistic men. Man and woman should react to the problem of sexism because it is an important problem in our world. I think it will difficult to stop sexism if everybody are passive to this situation.

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  10. I read the post named “Differences between Men and Women are Perceived” by Matthew Johnson who is a feminist as a member of “Feminism Without Borders” at the University of Maryland. He states that women should not only treated equally like the men but also the traditional view of “ associat[ing] all things “female” with victimhood and all things “male” with violence and oppression” should be changed. Personally, I agree with him because although most of people approve that woman has the same ability as the men but fundamentally they still think man should be the one has the power and strength to protect woman whereas woman could not live without man. Therefore, the traditional view should be changed firstly in people’s minds.





    By Aini (on time, sent via email)

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  11. According to the article "Differences Between Men and Women are Perceived". Posted by the website ManSpeakUp written by Matthew Johnson a femminist. We retrieve very accurate imformations that inform us on the topic of how injustly woman are treated. We hear it all the times when woman get raped , and the article shows us the straight up facts. The article encourages the man world to change an stop using violence and abuse toward the other sex. Matthew believes that gender should not be viewed as a sign of superiority in anyway, but should be viewd as equality for all man end womens.He also states how we must improve, its time for a change we have reached a century where all this as to stop and we must support it. People must come out of their ignorence and come to the facts of what is now the new century and we must try to imptrove it. I strongly support his message because its time to make this a big metter and try to change the world.

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  12. According to the article "Differences Between Men and Women are Perceived". Posted by the website ManSpeakUp written by Matthew Johnson a femminist. We retrieve very accurate imformations that inform us on the topic of how injustly woman are treated. We hear it all the times when woman get raped , and the article shows us the straight up facts. The article encourages the man world to change an stop using violence and abuse toward the other sex. Matthew believes that gender should not be viewed as a sign of superiority in anyway, but should be viewd as equality for all man end womens.He also states how we must improve, its time for a change we have reached a century where all this as to stop and we must support it. People must come out of their ignorence and come to the facts of what is now the new century and we must try to imptrove it. I strongly support his message because its time to make this a big metter and try to change the world.

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  13. "It is probably more dangerous to be a woman than a soldier in an armed conflict." The article Women, War and Peace begins with this purpose. The woman are constantly living in danger and in terror, from what is said in this article. In this article it is said that after most of the wars the targets became women and they suffered unprecedent casualities. All of this is going to be rappresented in a Tv series, with many very famous actors.

    If I can say something about this article i would say that this is totally "womenish" , which means that this has been written certainly by one of the women which has used alot of exagerations. In many history books nothing of this has ever been said.

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