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 disparager Ludacris from my alarm clock radio at six oclock in the morning. I slam the snooze thatton and curse myself for totaling the army. I apply physical training today. I jump out of bed and promote to get dressed. Then, I tie over to the training site and join the rest of my fellow classmates. These individuals are 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 limit allows us we yell at one some other and we feel pain together. The thing I love most astir(predicate) the army is that they arent really supposed to classify us by any of our differences. As they say, we are one team fighting for a putting surface goal. Yet, it was not so long ago that the military opposed of this oddball of mindset. Only recently has there been an initiative to integrate both sexes in the army. However, the step to combin e men and women in the military doesnt necessarily tight that bigot views and generalizations about the female gender are erased. In fact, as more as we would like to believe that we are improving as a society with the amount of laws and restrictions that we have against sexism, in truth, the double standards against women still bum around in the minds of many-unspoken but still heard. After an hour of training, I paseo back to my dorm to take a shower and get dressed, but not in my regular school clothes-no way, todays Wednesday, the Battle Dress equal Day. I look at myself all the time in the reflect when I get dressed, but whenever its Wednesday, I dont feel like the elegant women I am supposed to be. For now, I am a man. No jewelry, hair pulled back, baggy camouflage clothes, and the strange feeling in my pith telling me that Im being trained to kill. I spend the day walkway around campus in my uniform trying to ignore the disgusted or confused looks I get from student s. Is she a dike? I get along many ask 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.