Blog 3...

I really enjoyed this movie and found it to be quite inspirational. It made me feel really thankful for the continued fighting women in generations before me. This movie really portrays all the struggles Alice Paul and the members of the National Women's Party endured to obtain the right to vote. 

I think it really surprised me the lengths these women went to. Alice Paul starving herself to make a point was not only a bit disturbing but surprisingly inspiring. I mean it doesn't inspire me to starve myself for something that I want in life but it does show me that if I believe in something strongly enough, to fight for it. 

A theme of the movie the the movie really stands out is women are able to do anything that they set their minds to. Although this doesn't come without great struggle. The women in the movement had to overcome many struggles. One that really stands out in my mind was the scene where the parade was organized. When the men reacted, it caused great chaos and it shows how against the movement they really were. I can't even begin to comprehend what it must of felt like to have so many men fighting against something you believed so strongly in. Why couldn't they see that we deserved the right to vote to, that we were as ignorant as they thought? Not only did Alice Paul have to deal with men aggression but she had to deal with other women fighting against her too. NAWSA didn't agree with her tactics and it caused her to break off and create the National Women's Party. Overcoming these struggles meant uniting under one cause and that was what they precisely did. 

Like I said...this movie was very enjoyable and although I had already previously seen it, it is always a favorite. 

In reference to the readings....

One of the most interesting areas in the reading revolved around the idea of "sisterhood", Hooks shows that this decreasing effort of sisterhood has actually downplayed our strength as a whole. The more we continue to cause drama between our own sex, the more problems we create when we actually need to unite together to further our own hopes and goals. I know for a fact that I fall into this category. There are many times when i've encountered fights within my own gender...I mean who hasn't. Girls in general live for the drama. But why do we do this to ourselves?Why do we let jealousy get in the way? Why don't we look into the fact that we are all different and all great in our own ways? Maybe if we could all answer these for ourselves and start to build each other up instead of tearing others down...we could join together and fight for something that actually matters...until then I think were kind of stuck