The Things That Make Me Sound Feminist

The other day as I was sitting in class and I decided to take a little peek at what my Facebook news feed was looking like (Just ignore the fact that it was during class... i'm still a very good student). As i was scrolling through the usual memes and inspirational quotes of the day one shared video caught my attention. 

In this video a woman was dancing with a man (presumably to dancehall music. I presume since I had to watch without sound so I wouldn't get caught) and things were going the normal route of bump and grind when the guy literally flung her to the ground, hung her from a tree and pretty much nearly injured her in efforts of 'hitting it hard'. Now most people would see nothing wrong with this (BTW these are the people I refer to as Numb minded farts) since it's just the normal thing you'd see in any dancehall video or club. I however was quite intrigued by the fact that people were laughing at this. It feels like some where along the line there was a switch in evolution we've reached our limit of intellectual status as humans now its time for us to get down back on our knuckles and knees and return to our trees. Since when is seeing a woman get flung around like a rag doll while being humped a funny thing? Okay Except in the case of it being watched by a bunch of neanderthals who are so brain beat by the system that there is goo in their heads where a brain should be. Am I missing something here?

Now this is just one instance of me noticing the objectification and downright mistreatment of women. You may disagree with me by saying, "Oh that's just culture. It's just a dance Kezra." Oh I know it's accepted across the Caribbean but why is it accepted in the first place. Call me old fashioned but I was raised thinking that women didn't deserve to be treated in that way...even if they were "just dancing". If anyone pays close enough attention we find that the common school of thought is that women are merely sexual objects placed on this earth to provide pleasure. We see it on television, hear it in our music on the buses and now we even see it on campaign trails (That was my Trump Card). Funny thing is, we have become so desensitized to it that we now even accept it. Now tell me, if our society accepts this kind of behaviour and thinking, why are we so shocked and outraged when rape or domestic violence or trafficking in persons or molestation is in our newspaper? Weird ain' it? How can I teach my child Rape with your clothes on is okay but rape with your clothes off... Oh no no nooo! Thats bad! 

Men are usually the monsters of stories like this but now even women have begun to act like and believe that they are meant to be sex objects. Most women now accept this treatment because they think that's how they're supposed to be treated. God help the simple minded brute that attempts to use me as his sex object. Yet this all societies fault which means this is all our fault since we set the trends. Therefore we can change them. Men, teach your women how to be ladies. Treat them like the queens they are. Women don't think you get off... teach your children the right way of thinking and quit treating each other like the next person doesn't deserve to be treated fairly. 

**Disclaimer: I am not a feminist...I just know how a female should be treated.

-Third World Black Girl

Third World Student Experiences

Every single person has at least once in their life questioned why we even go to school in the first place. C'mon, just admit it. The thing I don't understand is why most adults try to make us like school. We go to school, learn algebra (which we probably never even have to use again for the rest of our lives), bust our butts to get good grades, get a job and then work until we die. Yea, I'm so excited. You can feel it through your computer screen.




Now I'm sure that there are some of you out there that are probably saying, "But I like school! School is fun!" Yea... that's all great and everything but let me break down my schooling experiences for you. These are the main reasons why Guyanese children don't like school (from nursery to University).

1. There's always some kid with incontinence: Every single day there was at least one kid that didn't make it to the bathroom or just didn't even bother to get up. It was also more than likely that it was the kid that sat next to you. This why i still can't write the number eight properly. Instead of focusing on my curves all I could think about was the smell of milk and faeces next to me.
2. No lockers: Now this was pretty much why we envied (and probably still envy) 'First World" students. Disney movies did this to us. I've always wanted to be able to have a locker of my own. To leave my school books in it. To meet my friends there every morning before class. But then again in Guyana children used to steal your pens and pencils in 'front yuh face' so it's probably best that we don't implement those. 
3. Heavy Book Bags: In my day, we had to fetch every singe text book we would have needed for the day to school. Every single one. Every single day. For eleven years. This is why I look like the hunch back of Notre Dame! The Ministry of Education's new motto should be, "Proudly misshaping our nations children for generations." I think it'll catch on. 
4. Other students: Now this might solely apply to me since I generally never liked any other school children (with the exception of the chosen few that I did talk to). But, you have to deal with the overly smart ones, the 'popular pretty' ones, the 'i'm super philosophical' ones and then my favorite, the 'Arts stream never even made sense' students. To those people out there...





5. Tuition fees: Don't get me wrong...I totally get that Universities need to make money in order to keep functioning efficiently and yada yada yada. However, these people be ridiculous sometimes. Recent occurrences at the local university can attest to that. *Can I get an amen?* Some of us are fortunate enough to be able to pay cash but others end up owing the Government for loans. So you gave me a degree but I can't get a job to pay you back. Gee...thanks...

Pretty much everyone has their own school experiences and I can assure you that even the brightest scholars will tell you that friends were the only reason they walked through those doors everyday (additionally the threat of imminent death by the hands of their parents). Whether good or bad, all those experiences made school worthwhile.

-Third World Black Girl