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   Hello, and welcome to Silver Dollar Value's first blog post in March. Like many of you, we here at SDV welcome the new month, and hope for it to be even better than the last. I know I personally have nothing but optimism regarding the month ahead as I've used up all my pessimism in January and February.

  March is known for many things. March Madness is a time for fans to make wages, eat junk food, and paint their faces. March 15th is a time when a group of Judases can overthrow an unsuspecting, all encompassing ruler. March of the Penguins is a long boring movie about the migration of a flock (I guess you would call them a flock) of Penguins. But, I think without a doubt, March means one thing to the majority of people--Women's History Month.

***Disclaimer: This is an opinion based blog. The remainder of this post will include mostly opinions with some facts to back them up. If you are uncomfortable with opposing viewpoints, please exit the blog.


***Disclaimer 2: Seriously. Don't get offended. These are just some opinions I have concerning this specific topic. I cannot stress enough how much I do not want anyone to be annoyed.


  On February 28th, 2011, President Barrack Obama officially made the month of March National Women's History Month. After years of hard work and dedication, women have finally gotten exactly what they wanted--March. From here on out, women can sleep peacefully at night knowing that all the struggles to achieve equality in the workplace have been met. Women can be assured that all the picketing and boycotting in Washington for the right to vote, drink, smoke, work, and etc. had been heard. And women can finally rest easy knowing they too are valuable members of society capable of doing anything that their male counterparts can do because now they have 31 days out of a year that focuses souly on all great strides that their foremothers had achieved before them. In short, this National Women's History Month is the piece de' resistance of women's achievements…the icing on the cake for gender equality…the defeated waterloo. Right?!


No. Women's history month has about as much worth and prestige as, say, black history month.  There is nothing positive that comes from having a month long tribute to women's history when the central issues is still as big of a deal as it is. Here are just a few reasons why I believe we shouldn't rejoice about this recent happening:

1. It's a month of recognition. Not a time. Not a period. A month. A month has a beginning, middle, and end. It comes and goes, and before you know it, you have 11 more of them until you get back to that same one. This means that for ever 31 days of appreciating what historical women have accomplished, there are 334.25 days where you don't care. A month is not an abstract figure that can be as important or unimportant as you want it to be. It's a period of time, written in stone, that will forever be ticking, and if your schools curriculum or tv programming doesn't match up with it, then too bad. Before February 28th, 2011, America recognized March 8th as a day of remembering back to the days of cruelty and oppression to women. It was a day where schools could bull shit some power point presentation about Amelia Earhart, or Nickolodeon could do mini bio-pics on women actors between shows. Again, the same problem arises. What's the prefect situation? No month. No day. That way, no one felt obligated, therefore, no one felt like they knew anything they didn't. The fact is if someone has particular interest in Women's issues, they will do their own research, and find facts that might not be covered in school.                        What I think in a sentence: A month, like a day,  is not an adequate amount of time to give someone to learn about something as important as Women's History.
2. One word. BLACKHISTORYMONTH. I won't call anyone out, and by no means am I saying that everyone is as hateful and naturally cruel as I am, but I'm pretty sure a lot of people doubt the impact b.h.m. had on us growing up. I'll sum up to you everything I remember being taught during b.h.m. growing up in Memphis, Tn--Martin Luther King. Is this the same fate you want for women's history? A glorified, falsified, and glamorized  (mesmerized, hypnotized, an other words that rhyme)  condensed version of something that actually can't be summed up by learning about one man? NO. Keep our public schools out of areas like that as they have already shown that they can't do anything for a cause except for hurt it.                                                                                                            What I think in a sentence: Schools have enough to ruin without the added pressure of conjuring up some fallacy about something I actually care about like women's history.
3. False information is harmful information. In the case of women's rights, I feel as though it is worse to think you know everything  there is to know about the cause rather than admitting that you really don't know that much at all. Just as in points 1 and 2 (which incidentally could totally be the same point), a month of forced interest is no time to learn about what the women's struggle is all about. And, again in my opinion, I would rather someone be pure from the abridged version of it if that means that they don't think it's as simple as  "Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Stanton  led a crusade against men, won, and now women can vote." That irritates me more than someone who surrenders to the fact that they don't know much. I personally don't know everything, but I know enough to say that I don't, in fact,  know everything. And, to attack another issue, just because you're a woman doesn't mean you know more than me. I'm all for women having self worth and caring about themselves and their history, but a false sense of pride never comes off well. When some slutty, peace-sign sporting, ignorant girl comes up to me and "informs" me, she's doing nothing but hurting the entire cause. She's putting a face to a movement that the movement would probably not claim as its own, which leads me to think that the movement isn't a well oiled machine, which leads me to not be so vocal about the movement as I don't want to be compared to said slutty girl. Muslims:terrorist::women's rights activists:slutty girl.    What I think in a sentence: Knowing you don't know is very important, and without proper consideration, can turn a progressive movement into a tabloid headline.
4. Scandal. Tell me friends, why  did Obama decided to implement this H.W.R.M. right after Black history month? Is a to chronologically show where the importance is in America? Or is the 31 day month for women next to the 28 day month for black people supposed to encourage a comparison of the two causes, and reignite a rivalry between the two. Maybe the only reason he gave March to women is so that there will be riots. Obama might be fueling a secret liberal agenda to start the civil rights movement again, only this time, it's a civil rights race to the finish line. I say give April to Mexican-Americans, May to Native-Americans, and so on. Let's go all out with, what I'll start referring to as, Racelympics! Right?!                                                     What I think in a sentence: I'm so clever, even I don't know what I was trying to say in point 4. Sorry for wasting your time.

Because this is an opinion based blog that isn't meant to be taken seriously at all, I understand why I probably shouldn't have even brought up something that people actually care about. If it's any consolation to the three people reading this, I actually do really care about civil rights, and while I do understand it's really just a gesture made to ensure that schools at least pretend like they care about women's history, I personally think it's not a great idea. Because schools aren't comfortable enough to talk about issues like birth control or planned parenthood-type organizations (the two topics that without a doubt sum up the kind of inequality going on in America), we all will be cheated out of actually learning about the key figures that are STILL making a movement.

 I am no writer, and I probably shouldn't have tried expressing through word how I feel about this matter. 

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