March 5 Meeting

To begin our meeting, we watched a video by Jackson Katz that helped explain how we should no longer label problems regarding the females as "Female Problems", but rather "Worldly Problems", because whatever violence or mistreatment is conducted on women comes back around on the men in this world as well. The ladies discussed how femininity is often used in a derogatory tone, and how men who are more feminine than others are also mistreated and tormented. We watched a PSA sent out by the white house as well that discussed ending this abuse, and Alizeh read out some alarming facts and percentages about women mistreatment around the world, and how domestic violence isn't even considered a crime in many countries. We ended our session with an activity where Alizeh would read statements and all the girls would choose whether we agreed or disagreed with it, and then expounded on our reasoning.
-Jesse