I'm Sorry I'm So Needy

Today we in class we read a thesis paper from a 2004 AP student. The topic was gender studies, women specifically. His disaster of an introductory paragraph ended with one of the worst thesis statements I have ever read, I'm not actually sure he knew what a thesis statement was because it was so poorly developed. His credibility was completely destroyed when he spelled "always" as "all ways" and "some" as "sum." Really? You're in AP English? But the point of this is not to bash his writing (although more of that will come). The point of this is to destroy his point that women are too needy. However it is not just the little things in life we are needy about, but freedom, independence, and rights. What more could we want? I would so love to meet this guy. His argument is completely asinine and we didn't even get to the good part yet! "Our neediness makes us selfish." And don't even think about giving us power because we will not be able to handle it, we will have to hand the responsibility over to a man. Forget having a female president, the country would most likely fall into a downward spiral (but I'm sure some of my classmates have different opinions on this). I hope you are catching my sarcasm here because I am getting so frustrated just typing! No man was EVER needy (except when he will do/say anything for sex, I have met plenty of needy high school guys). Except for slaves. Damn these needy people always troubling men with their ambitions of equality. Evidentially women were already living the American Dream. All they had to do was be good mothers and GREAT wives. AND we got to go spend our husband's money all day (that is nice though, haha, except we are quite capable of making our own money to spend). What about going out into the world to seek whatever personal success means to us? And don't even get me started on what the OAHS teacher said about the decline of the morale of the country being contributed to women entering the work force. One I am pretty sure women were in the work force WAY before things got bad. And two ARE YOU SERIOUS!? I am one hundred percent positive that there have been so many amazing women contributions to this country. So the issue at hand here is do men really think like this today? The paper was from 2004, 8 years ago and the teacher quote from 2007, 5 years ago. That is so recent it kind of scares me. Please tell me that so many of my male peers and elders whom I respect don't think like this because if they did I would have some very choice words to say and then I would my associate with them anymore. And I will prove them wrong. Any one who thinks like that, as have so many women before me. It almost seems impossible that men could still think like this! Like why are we even having these conversations? Get real guys. I almost think that it's beginning to get worse. I can't tell you how many women jokes I hear a day. And Alex Wharton is the king of them (yes I am calling him out because it infuriates me)! And I think there are definitely a ton of men today who don't think a woman could be president. Some people ask me when they hear that I am going to USNA if I'm going to be the first woman president. I sure as hell hope not! One it's just not an ambition of mine and two by the time I reach the age requirement we better have some kick ass female as commander in chief! I really enjoyed how many of the female characters in this unit have proved these idiot makes wrong. Especially Laila! In the beginning many of them (Edna and Nora) kind of exemplify the "typical" woman, but then they represent more of a reality (although sometimes to an extreme). I am going to stop before this rant gets worse! But seriously people, grow up!