Before women declared that it was their right to choose, before Virginia Woolf stated that women needed “A room of their own” in order to find intellectual fulfillment, and long before Votes for Women was chanted, there was The Declaration of Sentiments written in 1848. The first turning point for women’s rights in the United States; for it brought to the nation’s collective conscience the plight of womenkind. Applying the Sentiments’ words—and therefore the ideas of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott and Susan B. Anthony—presents itself today as something wholly original, an idea, written in the guise of the Declaration of Independence, in order to mock and resolve the plight of women. Yet it is still said today, women are not fully represented,
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Are we un-lectured and un-taught in the plights and strife of women and minorities who are still not entirely seen on television, in film, or in the halls of Congress? So it must always be made apparent that the rights of all are how we must see the world and not just the rights of those whose numbers are greater and whose voices are strongest. Obtaining the right to vote for the women of Seneca Falls was their greatest challenge; at the time, women’s suffrage was as taboo as abolition, but without as many prominent followers, yet today, we cannot imagine a sane world with those rules still in play. But can we see better, see into a future where a woman’s purity is not questioned solely on the personal choices she’s made, thus relegating her to the sphere of either a woman of loose morals, or, conversely, a woman who was too confident for her own good? And what about greater acceptance of transgender and gender non-conforming peoples? Look more at how women are represented in government, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, for example. While she remains one of the most qualified people to run for President of the United States, she is still haunted by Monica Lewinsky, her association with her husband and the possible influence he may have over her, and her
Are we un-lectured and un-taught in the plights and strife of women and minorities who are still not entirely seen on television, in film, or in the halls of Congress? So it must always be made apparent that the rights of all are how we must see the world and not just the rights of those whose numbers are greater and whose voices are strongest. Obtaining the right to vote for the women of Seneca Falls was their greatest challenge; at the time, women’s suffrage was as taboo as abolition, but without as many prominent followers, yet today, we cannot imagine a sane world with those rules still in play. But can we see better, see into a future where a woman’s purity is not questioned solely on the personal choices she’s made, thus relegating her to the sphere of either a woman of loose morals, or, conversely, a woman who was too confident for her own good? And what about greater acceptance of transgender and gender non-conforming peoples? Look more at how women are represented in government, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, for example. While she remains one of the most qualified people to run for President of the United States, she is still haunted by Monica Lewinsky, her association with her husband and the possible influence he may have over her, and her