Intro: Before I start off my speech today, let me tell you all one thing - you, all listening to this speech right now, are feminists. Whether or not you identify as a feminist doesn't matter - if you acknowledge that both women and men alike deserve equal rights and opportunities when it comes to political, economical and social situations, you ARE a feminist. Unless, you don’t believe in equality, in which case, you need to sort out priorities. The reality is, we face gender inequality every day and
of guys, and when we think of our kitchen, we think about our mom. But why can’t men be nurses, girls wear the colour blue and our fathers cook? These are all gender labels we place on ourselves, peers, and family members without a second thought. This frustrates me… why are we limiting options of jobs, colours, or hobbies to certain genders? Growing up, movies and TV shows always taught me that women are not meant to play sports, men can’t be stay-at-home dads, women don’t know how to play video
Jasmyn Keomala Albert Rintrona III Rhetoric October 9th, 2015 Queen B Takes a Stance on Gender Equality Have you ever realized how much influence one person has on the world? Have you ever realized how much influence a woman has on the world? What about Beyoncé? Beyoncé is known to be a modern day feminist. In fact, she even wrote a speech over Gender Equality. Beyoncé titled the speech “Gender Equality is a Myth!” While reading this (take into consideration that I am a fan of Beyoncé) I wanted to
On Saturday, September 20th, British actress Emma Watson gave an empowering speech on feminism at the UN Headquarters (Cole). The speech was a launch for “heforshe”, a program “which aims to get men and boys to pledge to join the feminist fight for gender equality” (Cole). In her speech, she shares the message of gender inequality and encourages males and females to fight to end gender inequality. Emma Watson sets fire to the audience on the feminism movement by reaching the emotions of the viewers
The Equality of the Genders: A Comparison of Works by Emma Watson and Mary Wollstonecraft For all of history, women have often been considered largely inferior to men. This makes the subject of women’s rights a difficult one to express adequately. Emma Watson and Mary Wollstonecraft address the topic of gender equality throughout their works and deign to answer a question women have been asking for centuries: why are women considered less capable than men and what can humanity do to change that
ideas about gender, which significantly influences how one believes males and females should act like. Mark Bowden comments on gender roles in his novel Black Hawk Down, which is about a platoon of soldiers having to bear the rough male gender stereotypes of the army culture in a time of war. Kelly Wallace, in her article “Is the ‘Be a Man’ Stereotype Hurting Boys?”, writes about the fate of a teen boy who cracks under the pressure of gender stereotypes. Lastly, in her speech “Gender Equality is Your
sh*t”. The fight for women’s rights has too often become synonymous with man-hating. But if feminism is just referring to equality between the genders, why is being a feminist considered to be a taboo in our society? Why do we say that feminism tips the scale of gender equality far past equilibrium when one of the UN Millennium Development Goals aims to promote gender equality and empower women? Why is feminism automatically associated with negative connotations of extremists? The influx of death
Topic: Gender Equality: The Political Aspect General Purpose: To inform Specific Purpose: My speech seeks to inform the audience of a certain facet of the gender equality issue: Political equality between the sexes. Political equality has been, for a while now, the focus of the international arena. The audience of my speech will be my classmates with various majors whose age’s range somewhere between 19 and 22. Moreover, it also seeks to address a community where political equality remains
on May 29, 1851 at a Women’s Convention in Akron, Ohio. The speech would be remembered for its candidness, authenticity, and empowering message. Truth, an emancipated slave, was illiterate and was not able to offer her speech in written form. She spoke openly about her experiences as not only a woman in the 19th century but as a black woman. Sojourner Truth empowered her audience with the belief that they could overcome race and gender inequality during a time the world would come to know as the
apart of the suffrage movement but she was also a prohibitionist, reformer, and a political agitator. Her goal was to strive for not only equality and acceptance but for recognition of women in the workforce. McClung was without a doubt a feminist but labeling her as apart of the first wave feminists is hard. Her ideas of reform are not only maternal nor equality but a mixture of both. Her views and ideas of voting so that the influence of women could be shown in Canadian politics were more conservative