Double the Dose :: Feminist Feminism Gender Equality Papers

Double the DoseYouz a hooooo HO Youz a hooooo HO I said dat youz a ho, screams the rapper Ludacris from my alarm measure radio at six oclock in the morning. I slam the short sleep thatton and curse myself for joining the army. I have physical bringing up today. I jump out of bed and hurry to follow dressed. Then, I run over to the training site and join the rest of my buster classmates. These individuals be becoming very special friends to me. We run together we do pushups and sit-ups together we force each other to go further than the decide allows us we yell at one another and we feel disturb together. The thing I love most about the army is that they arent rightfully supposed to classify us by any of our differences. As they say, we are one team fighting for a common goal. Yet, it was not so long ago that the military opposed of this type of mindset. Only tardily has there been an initiative to integrate both sexes in the army. However, the step to immix men and women in the military doesnt necessarily mean that bigot views and generalizations about the feminine gender are erased. In fact, as much as we would worry to believe that we are improving as a society with the add together of laws and restrictions that we have against sexism, in truth, the double standards against women still lurk in the minds of many-unspoken but still heard. After an hour of training, I walk back to my vestibule to take a shower and get dressed, but not in my regular school clothes-no way, todays Wednesday, the Battle Dress Uniform Day. I figure at myself all the time in the mirror when I get dressed, but whenever its Wednesday, I dont feel like the beautiful women I am supposed to be. For now, I am a man. No jewelry, hair pulled back, slapdash camouflage clothes, and the strange feeling in my heart telling me that Im be trained to kill. I spend the day walking around campus in my uniform trying to ignore the disgusted or confused looks I get from students. Is she a dike? I know many take aim themselves because, of course, no real woman would ever join the army. Sometimes I wonder myself if Im a woman trying to be a man.