Samantha N. Perkins

Intro to Women's Studies 2014 ; 20 Years OId ; PaceU`16 ; Aspiring Speech Therapist

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#ProChoice

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McCullen v. Coakley

The Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments in McCullen v. Coakley - a challenge to a Massachusetts law that creates a 35-foot fixed protest-free zone outside of reproductive health care centers.

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Planned Parenthood Federation of America is the nation's leading sexual and reproductive health care provider and advocate

Some people cannot afford birth control, condoms, or sometimes an abortion. There is nothing to be embarrassed about. YOU ARE NOT ALONE. Take advantage of your rights and visit planned parent hood. You should always use protection and also get tested for any STDs. Educate yourself, your friends, and your family!

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This is interesting to see the different sides of being for or against abortion. I feel that we, as a women, should have a choice as to what we choose to do with our body.

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#ProChoice #WomensRights

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The Female Body

This image shows a normal woman with no clothes on. She is holding up a Barbie doll which is what a lot of women are compared too. The image is trying to show that a woman’s body and a Barbie doll body don’t compare to one another. It is extremely hard, almost impossible, to look like Barbie because of her measurements. Barbie’s measurements are traced around the woman’s upper body to show the comparison.

  This image should discourage women from trying to reach unrealistic measurements. Barbie is a doll and that is all she will ever be. There is no such thing as a human Barbie because if there was, she would probably be anorexic. I think the craziest part of the whole Barbie measurements is the waist. In order to ever have a waist like that you could never eat any food at all. Even if you didn’t eat food, your body wouldn’t have that nice curve to it like Barbie’s does because you would look sick.

  In “The More You Subtract, the More You Add” by Jean Kilbourne it says “ Even very little girls are offered makeup and toys like Special Night Barbie, which shows them how to dress up for a night out. Girls of all ages get the message that they must be flawlessly beautiful and, above all these days, they must be thin” (Kilbourne, 232). This quote is true because almost every little girl is given a Barbie doll when she was a little girl. The girls end up dressing the Barbie and applying makeup to her face in order to make her beautiful. This is how young girls get ideas of beauty implemented in their head. Also, there was never a curvy or fat Barbie. Every single Barbie doll is stick thin, which gives girls the idea that only being thin is acceptable and beautiful.

  In the poem “Homage to My Hips” by Lucille Clifton she writes “These hips are big hips, They need space to move around in, They don’t fit into little petty places.” This relates to the human girl’s body because her hips need room in order to move around compared to Barbie’s. Her hips cannot fit into Barbie’s tiny hips. This shows that girls of a normal and healthy weight need room to move their body freely and can’t be restricted to a small, unrealistic area.

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I think this is great. I just read an article of a man trying to create a new line of dolls that have the actual measurements of an “average” 19 year old teen girl. He is calling these new dolls called “Lammily Dolls”. I think it is amazing because young girls shouldn’t feel that they need to look a certain, unrealistic way and should learn to love the body’s they have.

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#InternationalWoman`sDay #DayLate 

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Jackie Kennedy gives her condolences to Coretta Scott King at the funeral of her husband, Martin Luther King, 1968.

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