Emma Watson started the "HeForShe gender equality
campaign" which was the first campaign of its kind at the UN to try and
motivate as many men and boys as possible to be advocates for gender equality.
She then outlines how no country in the world can yet say they have achieved
gender equality. - "it is right that as a woman I am paid the same as my
male counterparts. I think it is right that I should be able to make decisions
about my own body. I think it is right that women be involved on my behalf in
the policies and decision-making of my country. I think it is right that
socially I am afforded the same respect as men. But sadly I can say that there
is no one country in the world where all women can expect to receive these rights."
It's a balanced debate as she then goes on to identify that men are being
imprisoned by gender stereotypes - "Men don’t have the benefits of
equality either - young men suffering from mental illness unable to ask for
help for fear it would make them look less “macho”—in fact in the UK suicide is
the biggest killer of men between 20-49 years of age; eclipsing road accidents,
cancer and coronary heart disease." Overall, I think Emma Watson's
campaign is valid as it looks at both sides and discusses the issues
surrounding gender stereotypes, such as pressures from society to look a
certain way.
This article is all about Ched Evans and his struggle to get
another football contract from another team due to his troubled past of raping
someone and leading to Jean Hatchet starting a campaign to stop Ched Evans to
never play football again for a big team as a result his lead to her receiving
a massive backlash from men telling her that she should be raped or killed for
her reasonable believes.
Ched Evans raping someone lead to him going to prison and
when coming out leading to him wanting to play football again which lead to the
campaign being started in the first place.
I believe that the campaign is kinda valid. I understand that
what he did is an unspeakable act which I understand some people wouldn't want
to see him play football ever again. However I believe in second chances
because of the fact that if you force him to not play football ever again due
to his past he is going to be forced doing jobs that he might not be qualified
or not be passionate about so in all I believe that Ched Evans should
get a second chance because we have given second chances for example Mark
Wahlberg attempted murder and we all go and see his films so I believe that
Ched Evans should get a second chance.
Twitter Silence is all about women not using Twitter for a
day as a way to demonstrate how powerful and independent they are in
comparison to the preconceived ideologies that have
been constructed by misogynistic males. They say by doing
this will lead to women being inspired by the actions of this campaign, the
campaign of silence.
"I just wanted to do a thing" that's why she
started the campaign
I
believe that this is a terrible idea to showcase the ideology of feminism. I
believe men are open to the idea but just don't want to talk about it by
disappearing off Twitter for a day achieves nothing, not every person tweets
everyday if someone didn't tweet for a day we don't start a worldwide panic, we
wouldn't even notice by start a hastag #TwitterSilence is ironic by starting
your campaign where the end game is to not be on Twitter which is ridiculous.
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