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A Letter to Me—From My 13 Year-Old Daughter

Mommy,

Ok,I think that I should be able to get a cell phone(trac phone is fine but you can’t take pictures which sucks but ohh well,there fine)ok,just to let you know,that you don’t have to worry about me texting and getting 457686433 bills,because they have unlimited texting,and I was tolled that its only 5 bucks a month,and like 40 minutes is like 20 a month but still,I think that I am 13 I should have more priviledges,like,go walk around Jaffrey with Kyra and Tricia like on Saturday(they do it all the time) and I’m ALWAYS trapped in the house every freakin day.I know what your going to say,BUT I will keep my room as clean as possible if I get a cell phone.I know what your going to say,I have a phone,and a labtop,labtops and you can’t bring it with you and my phone is fo a like 4 year old,a disney princess phone!

and I’m not kidding,EVERY one of my friends have a cell phone,Kyra is getting one,Tricia,Alicia,Kali,Beth,Mariah,Amber,Josh,Tyler I could go on forever plus 1 reason why I hated doing after school clubs was that you would be like a half an hour late,and I always hated standing there watching the teachers go home. Oh did you know that a go phone is also great.and you really think thst I’m not responsible,I BABYSIT MY BROTHER OMG I’M NOT 3!!and you think that I wouldn’t use it properly and over use it.
thats SOME reasons why I should be aloud to have a cell phone!!

p.s thats why I never leave the house BUT I would with a cellphone.

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April 20, 2008   13 Comments

Are Men Really So Privileged?

Women 

 ”Anti-male discrimination has become far greater in scope, in degree, and in damage than any which may exist against women.” - Men’s rights advocate Richard F. Doyle

  Men enjoy higher earnings, control more wealth, exercise more power, do less house work and get more respect than women.  But is the male world not nearly as privileged as some people think?  If men are so privileged in our society then why do they turn to crime more often then women?  Did you know that the police are more reluctant to arrest a woman especially if she has children?  This fact explains why 78% of arrests for serious crime put the handcuffs on a man.  Men make up 93% of the prison population in the U.S.

  Did you know that men are twice as likely as women to suffer serious assault?  Three times more likely to fall victim to homicide? Four times more likely to commit suicide?   [Read more →]

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Significant “Firsts” for Women in U.S. Politics

Women 

Here is a list of Significant Firsts for Women in the USA-

  • 1869 Law allows women to vote in Wyoming territory; Utah follows suit in 1870.
  • 1872First woman to run for the presidency (Victoria Woodhull) represents the Equal Rights party.
  • 1917 First woman elected to the House of Representatives (Jeannette Rankin of Montana).
  • 1924First women elected state governors (Nellie Taylor Ross of Wyoming and Miriam Ferguson of Texas); both followed their husbands into office. First woman to have her name placed in nomination for vice-presidency at the convention of a major political party (Lena Jones Springs).
  • 1931First woman to serve in the Senate (Hattie Caraway of Arkansas); completed the term of her husband upon his death and won reelection in 1932.
  • 1932 First woman appointed to the presidential cabinet (Frances Perkins, secretary of labor in the cabinet of President Franklin D. Roosevelt).
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