The skits performed by the students typically play upon stereotypes that are horrible and not accurate. Students on my campus do not see the consequences of sexist actions or remarks and how such things can socialize how their peers view gender. Even when women are portrayed as promiscuous and stupid, my female peers were defending these themes as a joke. In a place of education, they were fine with being called stupid because it was simply a joke. I cannot blame them for writing it off. Feminism is still viewed negatively among our peers and their parents. Going against sexism and claiming to be a feminist would effectively kill a girl’s reputation on our …show more content…
However, I do not think our opposition was pointless. I believe that there were a few students and teachers that gained a new perspective of the rally and will henceforth think differently about what it represents. While we were still forced to participate in the rally, we did silently protest by refusing to wear pink or blue and chose instead to wear purple. This allowed us to talk with our peers about the issues with the rally when they asked why we were not wearing pink or blue. This year, we will continue our dissent and perhaps we will be more successful in a what we hope to be a more progressive