What causes or issues do you have strong opinions about? Oh! How women are so disrespected? I think so! I loathe the fact that many women are treated like a piece of candy. It is affecting women's self esteem everywhere in so many ways because once they get treated this way, it seems to be this horrible downwards spiral and they just escape from. I love watching old movies with Audrey Hepburn and Julie Andrews, because the men are such gentlemen. They treat women like precious jewels and I love that! I am grateful for the Women's Suffrage movement, and that we can have equal rights to men, but I do think we hurt ourselves in the fact that we didn't want to be treated like jewels. We wanted to be able to stand up for ourselves, prove our intelligence, have our voices be heard and such. However, I know some men who are completely turned off by women who are really independent or are women activists. I think women who are strong and confident are amazing, but when the roles of men and women start becoming reversed, therein lies the problem! The role of a man is so special and can be so wonderful if he knows what the responsibility entails. I think when women try to take on some of those qualities or privileges that man has, it changes something for women everywhere. Suddenly women and their attributes are taken for granted and treated like men instead of the opposite gender that we are. It sounds like I'm putting women down, but I'm not trying to! I just think men need to men and women need to be women. It is the natural order of things and if you throw something perfect off, it just keeps making bigger and bigger changes further away from the perfect thing it started as. I think a solution that could mend this colossal problem is that women need to be taught to have respect for themselves! These girls who get caught in this trap of disrespect and low self esteem don't think they deserve a good man but they do!! Unfortunately, some girls which do get treated like a princesses and often times abuse the privilege which sadly ruins it for all the other women. No body likes being made to look a fool, but everyone in this world is just so darn self interested! What happened to people putting others first before themselves?? I swear people are so selfish in this era and everything that is appealing to the human race puts the individual first! "Making sure you are happy and content before everyone around you is..." What is that?? Whoever started this myth is obviously out to ruin people. That has never worked in the whole history of humanity! When people put themselves before their fellow man, they become prideful and selfish, and everything snowballs into this awfully sad and selfish race of human beings that currently presides on this Earth. I have been taught, since I was very small that if you feel dejected, melancholy, or infuriated at something or someone, go and do something for someone else! Go help someone who needs it, do some service and give hope and happiness to those around you! Things will seem so much better, and your heart and attitude will change for the better. I have done this time and time again and it works every time. If everyone could start thinking this way, I think most problems in this crazy world would disappear. Sadly, I know it is hard to start spreading such things on such a large scale. The world is too prideful and selfish to even except this sort of ideology, I suppose. Most likely people think I'm evil or something absurd for writing this in the first place, but all I know is that when I serve others when I'm feeling down, and try to smile and be kind to everyone I see, that the world seems better and that dark cloud of disappointment clears away and reveals blue skies! Treating others the way you want to be treated is the oldest advice since the beginning of time and unfortunately, I think that crucial wisdom has been lost among the billions of people who inhabit this world. I don't know how to change it, but I will never stop trying to be an example of what I wish and desire the world to be like.
-Kayla
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