[Paula]

I read your statements about women and how they should make desions for themselves and stop ‘wimping out.’ You also said that you are not a feminist, but really that’s the whole motive behind feminism. Feminism seems to have been given this stigmatism of being a negative. I am a feminist. I don’t hate men and want to do away with them, I don’t blame men for all the world’s problems and I’m not a lesbian. Equality and the freedom to dictate one’s own life is what feminism is about. It’s OK to say you’re a feminist; if someone looks down on that, it’s their own ignorance for not knowing what it truly is.

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Name : Paula, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Catholic, Age : 18, City : Louisville, State : KY, Country : United States, Occupation : student, Education level : High School Diploma, 

[Paula]

Everytime I see Miss America, Miss Teen America, or Miss Universe pagents all I can think is why women would subject themselves to becoming a walking, talking, smiling, object of sole worth based on physical apperance. It makes me laugh, because they’ll ask women political and social questions in attempt to show the intellegence of the contestant. But no matter how intellegent a woman can answer, she has no chance of winning the pagent if when she walks out wearing a tiny bathing suit shows any sign of not having a perfect and completely unattainable figure. I almost choked when I heard someone refer to something as demeaning to women as a ‘celebration of womanhood’. Right… putting yourself on display so that men can treat you like a piece of meat makes me feel good about being a woman. But to the pagent you’re talking about, I saw that too along with some friends of mine. All in all we thought it was pretty hilarious. You should have heard us everytime one of the contestants answered a question trying to be suave and charming, we would laugh and say ‘Bulls**t! No man says that!’. It was a disgusting display, it somehow seemed like an overgrown version of a dating gameshow. You’re right to get a little insulted by that, those things are completely unrealistic but would have us believe otherwise. Anything that objectifies a person, male or female, is wrong.

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Name : Paula, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Catholic, Age : 18, City : Louisville, State : KY, Country : United States, Occupation : student, Education level : High School Diploma, 

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