LGBT Rights

Last day of Important Conversations from Not At All Stupid.
And it's going to be in pictures.

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Racial prejudice and Feminism

Never judge by its cover as they say. Only could we help it if we do happen to judge it to see if it's interesting or not? Same thing with humans, judging other humans. We always seem to judge each other on our race, what we wear, our skin color, etc. just to see if they're interesting at a first glance, whether we intended to or not. But for most of the time we let it slide off and not say it out loud, and try to get to know the other person. But if some of us says it out loud, well that's bad. It means that they're not going to let their judgement slide out the door, and will probably refuse to get to know the other person. Most likely causing some consequences in the future, just like the whole slavery thing, the Civil War, and the 1960(?)s, and the whole German, and Japanese people in the United States living as 'regular people' during WW2.

Feminism

I can't really think of anything to say other than it doesn't have to be a girl it can be a guy that has a bit more feminism as well. And that we both have masculine and feminism sides, it's just that girls feminism side shows up more, and vice versa for the guy. So now onto random pictures that may or may not fit with feminism. 

* Caution some of the pictures swears*

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Civil Rights

Civil Rights (plural noun) ~ basic rights that all citizens of society are supposed to have, e.g. the right to vote or to receive fair treatment from the law.
These rights as conceived in U.S. law are set forth in the 13th and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution and in some congressional acts.

Source: The dictionary on my computer

Civil Rights (plural noun) (often initial capital letters NPL) ~
1. Rights to personal liberty established by the 13th and 14th Amendments to the U.S. constitution and certain Congressional acts, especially as applied to an individual or a minority group.
2. The rights to full legal, social, and economic equality extended to blacks.
Source: dictionary.com 

Examples of civil rights:
- Women voting
- African Americans trying to get equality and trying not to look like they're trash all the time to the white people. 
- Homosexuals, transgender, bi and others trying to get same sex marriage approved. 

My opinion:

“Now we're in that sweet period where everyone agrees that our recent horrors should never be repeated. But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.”  ~ Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

It means that no matter what there won't be much equality in the world. We're always changing our minds, forgetting what has happened in the past, and is bound to repeat it again and again. We're always having people trying to get civil rights again and again for different reasons. A right for everyone to vote, a right for colored people to attend the same schools/work/store, and sit anywhere on a bus, and others. Trying to be like the other people, doing what the other people are doing. And now a right for everyone to get married even if they're transgender, bi, or homosexual. How will it end? Will it end peacefully giving them the right to get married everywhere? Or will it end in war such as the the civil war (which originally was trying to get the confederate/southern states to not separate from the rest of the United States, before abolishing slavery later along the way)? It won't really matter because in the end there will be the right to marry anyone you like with no consequences in the end. Because that's civil, and it's a right, not a banned law. 

And plus every single human being whether they like a person of the same sex, colored, dumb, genius, handicapped, etc. deserves to have the same rights anyways. And in a way so does animals even though they're not human. They're being tested, abused, and getting put to sleep, not really having a right in any of those things. But maybe in the future, us humans and animals might have a protest demanding that every single living being equal and civil rights. 

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Day two et three

Of Important Conversations. In which I forgot to post yesterday and apologize because I was being my lazy self. Now onto the post which is about self-confidence and censorship.

Day two: Self-confidence

Self-confidence

Easily breakable

Like hard clay

But a bit hard to put back together

Self-confidence

Having webs of cracks

Like a mirror

Kindness and genuine compliments

Can help mend it

Smiles helps

Tears don’t

‘Jokes’

Being mean

Society’s view on beauty

Words

All like a hammer

Pounding

Pounding

Pounding

Till it all shatters

Into varying pieces

And only then can

Smiles

 Compliments

Happiness,

Acts of kindness

And society actually realizing what true beauty really is

Can fix the pieces

Day three: Censorship

It all depends on the censorship. Censorship against swearing especially on television on my opinion can be good because it can help teach people that it's a bad thing to say. And plus it's better that the younger generation doesn't know about those words yet, because it's inappropriate and I wouldn't want them tasting nothing but soap for a couple of days/weeks. 

Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it.  ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 9, spoken by the character Atticus

But if it's a censorship on the internet for copyright reasons. Now that's plain dumb, especially if politics is trying to get you to buy more Hollywood movies. And that's what SOPA, IP [something], and ACTA (a scarier version of SOPA and it's mostly private and international) is. So say no to them and be glad that congress (hopefully) set it aside. Because if most of the internet is blocked off because of copyright stuff, then it's going to be a harder life then. Since the internet is becoming much more sociable and useful now days. Without it well... hello libraries you're probably going to get full again. 

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Bullying

Katie from Not At All Stupid is having an Important Conversation blog event for the next week or so. And today's blog topic is about bullying. If you want to join in or want to tell a person about it go here, to tell her. I'm sure she'll appreciate it very much.

Plus I'm going to join in for all or a couple of them, so be prepared.

                         Bullying, it’s how safe schools started. Because of one or a group of bullies and some unhelpful bystanders wouldn’t stop ‘teasing’ one or a group of kids. In fact, the ‘teasing’ got to a level where it’s so bad that the victim decided to one day defend him/herself by bringing a weapon to school one day. Most likely, the weapon was a gun, and most likely, that gun wasn’t a toy gun. And most likely, that gun wasn’t going to stay hidden very long. Then the terror came when the victim started to shoot everyone the bullies, the unhelpful bystanders, and some of the teachers. The school under lockdown, everyone under tables trying hard not to breath for fear that they might get shot. Police waiting outside trying to get the situation sorted out.

                All this happened because of bullying. All because of the bully ‘teasing’, that the victim had to endure day in and day out. It might eventually lead to that or to something worse and that is suicide. And don’t think I’m kidding when I said that victims of bullying bought a gun to school and shot people. It used to happen a long time ago all around the world as well, before safe schools happened, before most of the schools started to get a bit stricter. Now days that’s rare, now days the victim would probably commit suicide. Unwilling to tell anyone about it because for fear that the person he/she told won’t listen, or probably think it’s all a joke.

                And if you’re a victim of bullying and told the school about it, but the school won’t help. Just know that you’re not alone. Just know that there are other people who are experiencing the same thing you’re feeling. And just tell someone, please? Because I swear, it will help you feel better. Even though it may seem like a big mistake, but trust me it won’t be a mistake.  It will be a lifeline out of bullying. 

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