I'll Scream my Head Off

Damn, I just got done reading my friend Josh's blog about Brazil and the gender gap there. It's ridiculous. I just can't imagine myself living and dealing with men who would talk down to me and treat me as someone lower than them just because I'm of the female persuaion.

Now, I know I've done things that have made people think that I'm a "slut" or whatever, but that stuff has yet to come back and bite me in the butt. While never having lived during the sexual revoloution, I know my mom had to deal with the inequalties of being a woman during most of her lifetime. It's just the thought of people looking down upon me because I'm a woman is just so un-bearable, it makes me want to scream.

I know Josh is uncomfortable sitting there and watching it happen, but I'm uncomfortable with the thought that men in general down there don't treat women with respect. It amazes me really that stuff like this happens in this day and age, but this and many other areas of Latin America, more importantly the world, have yet to actually have a gender or sexual revoloution hit them.

In the middle of all this blogging, I realized that I probably would get a lot of dissenence down there just because I would stand up for myself aganist people who would try to put me down. Actually, I would probably scream at the first guy who tells me that I'm wrong even though I'm right.

I told my mom about this and how I feel that I would react to it if something like this happened to me. While I know I say I would probably do this or that, I actually think I wouldn't realize what would be happening to me until after it happened. I don't like to think that I wouldn't react until afterwards, but I know I would definatly not react the way I hope I would.

These are just some thoughts about what has been going through my head