Feminism

Facing
History

What Is Feminism?
Feminism (dictionary)
the advocacy of women's rights on the grounds of political,
social, and economic equality to men.
Feminism (human definition)
The belief of women having equal rights in all facets of social
life.

How Is Feminism Seen

1. The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It
is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that
encourages women to leave their husbands,kill their children,
practice witchcraft,destroy capitalism,and become lesbians.
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Basically, some believe that feminists are crazy lesbian
women who practice violent acts and attempt to ruin the
government.

Objective
Our objective is to educate the Blackstone community on
what being a feminist means and what they support.
Facing History feels like being feminist is something thats
scorned because of the stereotypes society has placed along with
its name. But in reality, being a feminist is being able to think of
a world where men and women are equal. However, Just like
racial inequality, some people refuse to believe that gender
inequality is non-existent.

Statistics
Over 2 million women are raped in the United States in their
life time
In the USA the average woman earns 84 cents for every
dollar the average man makes
More women are killed by their boyfriend/husband than
troops in Afghanistan
7.4% of countries have had female heads of states over the
last 50 years
http://www.feminist.com/antiviolence/facts.
html

Statistics (cont.)
Men outnumber women at a rate of 73% vs. 27% in all
sectors of employment for science and engineering as of 2009
In Saudi Arabia, women are allowed to own cars but not drive
them.
In China and India, a male child is more valuable than a
female child.

http://www.feminist.com/antiviolence/facts.htm

Statistics (cont.)

More women are killed by their husbands/boyfriend then people fighting in

wars

Feminism Survey: Men on the Street

A group of people who
wanted to find out what
the city of New York
thinks about feminist.
What they figured out
sounds a little
disrespectful towards
feminist.

Reason for Video

Facing History chose to show this video because it
portrays almost every stereotypes that exists towards
feminists. The men interviewed in this video say that
feminists are basically evil women trying to take over the
world. As a school, we find that thoughts like these should
be altered. Because just like every stereotype type, there
are more lies than truth.

If womens roles in Ads were played

with men.
This video shows
female roles being
played by men. The fact
that seeing men this
way is strange but
seeing women this way
isnt, shows that we are
truly behind from racial
equality.

Video Explanation
We as the facing history class chose the Ads video
because we thought that this video would be a great visual
representation on how people now see women compared
to men.

Run like a girl

This video shows
that being called a
girl shouldnt be
disempowering, but
girls should be proud
of themselves.

Video Explanation
Like a girl was made to show that some
females themselves believe in the stereotypes
made about them.

Why Im a feminist
This video
questions the
stereotypes forced
upon Feminists.

Video Explanation
We chose the "why I'm a feminist" because she
states statistics on stereotypes and why she's
a feminist. She sends a clear message and
doesn't sugar coat anything.

BACS Version of Like A Girl

Video Explanation
We made this video to portray the different
views of BACS students. We wanted to show
the different opinions in our community. As a
facing history class we wanted to show how
even around us these stereotypes exist.

Thank you for your time...

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