Tupac Was Right

My post here will be short because of the data gathered that I have displayed in this interactive time line from www.timetoast.com.

I have been thinking a lot about women's history lately. It is not uncommon in 2000-something or other to see women  dressing how they want, saying what they want, and having freedom other their bodies and choices. I was shocked to find out that this is new to our generation (Gen X) and those after us!

While this time line combines feminism and women's suffrage, it is only a very generalized collection of events that happened. I encourage you to go and look at more extensive histories. Especially those of Susan B. Anthony, who for example; was allowed to register and vote, then arrested the next day and held for the equivalent of over $75,000!

Or check out Alice Paul who was arrested for "obstructing the side walk" when she and others picketed for women's suffrage outside of the White House. She was refused a trial with a jury of her peers and force fed when she refused to eat in jail.

A very detailed post about Women's Suffrage

These are only a few of the women who gave up everything so that we could be where we are today.

Another important movement? Birth Control. While it has been around for decades now, Gen X and those after are the first to be able to get birth control without jumping through a million hoops and stigmas. While birth control is meant to prevent pregnancy it also has tons of other great affects! It is only recent that women have been able to choose when they would have children and who that would be by.

I am not saying by any means that women are better or deserve more (as is the notion associated with feminism or promotion of the female) but I certainly admire the millions of women who have laid down their life, pride, security, and freedom so that their children and maybe themselves may be equal citizens of this country!

I felt that a good visual explanation of women's rights through the last century would be demonstrated through the change in cheerleading uniforms and swimsuits. I wanted to include cheerleading uniforms because they represent what the general society is okay with seeing in a school. As a side note; the first picture in the cheerleading time line is only men, that is because it was the men who sat on the side lines that did the cheering!

I wanted to include this little bit from Tupac "Keep Ya Head Up"

And since we all came from a woman
Got our name from a woman and our game from a woman
I wonder why we take from our women
Why we rape our women, do we hate our women?
I think it's time to kill for our women
Time to heal our women, be real to our women
And if we don't we'll have a race of babies
That will hate the ladies, that make the babies
And since a man can't make one
He has no right to tell a woman when and where to create one
So will the real men get up
I know you're fed up ladies, but keep your head up

I want to pose a question for you as well; where does all the hatred towards another sex come from? Is it taught? Do we have deep within ourselves? What do you think? I will be doing some more exploring on that issue myself as well.