Pro-life vs. Pro-choice

Wow what an interesting documentary. 12th and Delaware was definitely unlike any other film that I have ever seen. I really liked how it really wasn't bias towards either side of the argument. It showed a really fascinating case where right there on the same street you could see people who really felt strongly towards one side or the other. From the very beginning we couldn't tell if we were trying to be brought to one side or the other. I think I can pretty surely say that a majority of our class is of course pro-choice so I couldn't help but of course agree with what the people from the abortion clinic were saying. It was really easy to see the people from the Pregnancy Care center as crazy and just clearly out of their mind. The beginning made it seem like the people from the Abortion Clinic were these mysterious rich doctors that didn't care about rallying back. So needless to say I think we were all excited the moment they showed the shot from inside the closing garage door. We really got to see a personal in with both people from both sides of the street. Each felt so strongly affected by the decisions of these women to either get abortions or not. I for sure had shivers through a good portion of the film when the anti-abortion people were promising the women who were considering abortion money and other financial help. The tactics that the anti-abortion people were using were unbelievable and really just made me want to cry for the lies that the women were being told. So much of what they were preaching had no credibility. However as easy as it may be for me to think the women are being ignorant for being so easily convinced to have the baby instead of going through with the abortions would be wrong. Clearly when a woman is in such a state of extreme confusing and stress almost anything could possibly persuade her to choose not to get an abortion when she is having multiple people yelling at her that she is doing wrong or that she will instantly regret what she is about to. The hardest part for me was watching these people tell so many lies to the women. When the one man protester said that women don't have a choice about there decisions about there own bodies, I wanted to get up and find him and honestly hurt him. It just made me cringe.

The link between Feminism and Lesbian...

...there is none. (sorry guys but this is gonna be just another one of my rants) So we were talking about this in class the other day and it is definitely something I feel like I've had experience with. So to start things off  I call myself a Feminist and I also call myself heterosexual. However there have been multiple times where I have been called a lesbian or bisexual just for the way I express my ideas. I don't understand where the link is. It comes from people being ignorant and just dumb. I don't think I'm sexist and in no way do I think women are better then men. I believe I'm a feminist because I believe in equality in every way, equal rights for everyone no matter who you are. Women have through out history had to fight for there rights and fight for equal opportunities.

Sex is how you're born. Male or female..(plus everything that comes inbetween), but gender is something that we learn. We learn our gender from everything in our lives. So why do have to accept gender roles as something that can't be changed. As humans and as a generalization, we like to keep things simple. We like to follow what has been done before us. So for us to go against the norm, we are looked down upon. But why? Maybe I want to grow up and be billionaire and be the CEO of successful company. Maybe I don't want kids and maybe I want to have multiple boyfriends for the rest of my life. But no if I were to do one or any of those things I may be looked down upon or if not that then people would be confused. But that's because I am a woman. Some unwritten imaginary law out there is telling people that its not okay for me to do anything that only a man would do. So back to my point though, how does this tie into being lesbian? I guess I just don't get it. I know I went off a little there but my point is that there just really isn't any connection. Just because I fight for equality among men and women and don't want to grow up to be a house wife doesn't mean I want to date a women. So where does the confusion come from? I want all women to be confident with them selves and to never see them selves as secondary to men. But I don't want to marry a women? So why do people think that?

I looked up lesbian feminism and found that it is an actual term...

" "Lesbian feminism" is a related movement that came together in the early 1970s out of dissatisfaction with second wave feminism and the gay liberation movement."

Maybe that was just possibly me being ignorant but the 70's was over 40 years ago and I think its time for a new wave of feminism. Feminism should have no negative connotations that follow it. Assumptions need to be washed away and more people need to open there eyes to what feminism is all about.