Celebrate a New Week with Gender Equality

          Happy Monday, everyone! Pride month is drawing to a close, but it's been a pretty great one this year. I know that Mondays are kinda rough for some people, so I'm cheering you all up with a cool comic that perfectly embodies the true spirit of gender equality. 
          Here's the link to the original imgur page, but I'm also including the image below. It's kinda big, but it's worth the read.
          Remember, sexism isn't a "men's issue" or a "women's issue". Sexism affects everyone negatively, although I do have to admit that women have it kinda worse. (Femicide, anyone?) However, the stereotypes that claim that men always have to be interested in the same things, act the same way, and not express emotion are ridiculous and incredibly harmful. All in all, I agree with the message of this image- Sexism will not be overcome until both women and men can recognize it as a serious issue that hurts both groups, and work together.
          Have a great and world-improving week!
 

Update: I can't seem to get the image to be at a good size for reading that doesn't fall out of my post, so you can either zoom in your browser to view it here, or view the original on imgur. If anyone knows how to fix the issue, please shoot me a comment to let me know! Blogger needs to add some more features... 

Food for Thought: Abandoned Innocents

          On the night of April 14^th, 2014, almost 300 Nigerian schoolgirls from the village of Chibok were kidnapped by Boko Haram, an Islamist terrorist organization. I did not write an article about this event.

          Why am I writing about it now, two months “late”? Well, even though the entire media was in an uproar about it in April, I haven't heard a word about these girls for many weeks- not from news organizations, not from open-source websites, and not from human lips. Are the young scholars still missing? Yes. Are they still being kept as sex-slaves and many being indoctrinated into Islamism against their will? Yes. Does the public still care? Not really.

          After two months of imprisonment, surely these girls have given up hope. If I were among them, I would have. Despite a twitter campaign, empty promises from the government, and many people claiming that "I won't be able to rest until the victims are returned home", the world has forgotten about them already. I suppose that shows exactly how much Western society cares about people who are only an ocean away- and yet, an ocean is enough to separate the lamented from the forgotten, the rescued from the abandoned, and the saved from the damned. 

Image credit to ABC News

Sources: www.cnn.com, videos released by the Boko Haram terrorist group