Dude, come on

                          
    
     Gretchen Carlson, former Miss America, and Fox news star come forward to talk about her experience with sexual harassment and how as a woman she was demeaned. Reading the article, Gretchen Carlson Next fight by Belinda Luscombe brought many issues to the table including sexual harassment in the workplace, over-sexualization of simple tasks and how degrading  men are to women.


    Carlson tells the story of how she was sexually harassed on one of the first days of work by a cameraman. The man had attached the mic to Gretchen before broadcasting a show and afterward approached her and had the audacity to ask if she liked him attaching that mic under her shirt. “I touched your breasts”, he gladly noted. A simple task like attaching a mic was taking so out of proportion to the point of that cameraman losing his job.


    On many episodes of Fox and Friends, in which she hosted, along with her sexist co-hosts who thought it appropriate to make uncomfortable comments on Carlson's appearance and wardrobe.

  “I am saddened by the prevalence of powerful men disrespecting and objectifying women- and getting away with it for years. I am particularly distressed when people in the public eye who influence our culture perpetuate sexism.”-Gretchen Carlson says regarding Trump


This statement is powerful because it not only focuses on the inappropriate humor of Donald Trump but sheds a much broader picture of today's media, gossip, and cause of/to many cases involving sexual harassment and rape


     Carlson is a powerful figure in today's society with a large platform to do whatever she wishes and by all means, she takes advantage of this wonderful privilege. May it be noted that because she is a woman, this platform is not taken as seriously as it should due to her impressive knowledge and status. For example; in interviews, she has done (with men) involving politics or topics like it, she is looked down on because of her appearance. Those she has interviewed question her intelligence to the level where it is quite degrading.


    In an interview I watched, Carlson states she was not allowed to wear pants. I believe this is because pants are regarded to be a manly garment and on a woman, ‘it would give them the equivalent power/status. Which the powerful woman image is not the ideal image Fox would like to show. 


    Carlson is a committed feminist and due to her appearance (dresses, makeup, feminine things) something this is hard to believe but because of how she pushes forward on the issue of sexual harassment it is very evident. 


“I’ve been for women empowerment my entire life”


To conclude, I will say again that Carlson is a powerful woman and what she has chosen to do about this distressful situation is remarkable. Coming forward is always the hardest part. She and other women do not deserve to be treated in an over sexual way without proper consent, which is not given.


    I would like to address another issue that somewhat has to do with the top of feminism, the transgender “issue”. As a woman, to identify as my given/chosen gender I wear clothes that suit me and make it known in some aspect that I am female. I also stand for female rights but this does not constrict the clothes I wear, nor the clothes of another feminist, who are not extremist. A transgender woman (man to woman), dresses to fit their pronoun(she, her, etc..) and vice verse for a transgender man. Concerning the bathroom situation, if a transgender woman comes into the men's room wearing a dress, makeup, and heels, I believe she will in a strongly opinionated straight man's words, “get the living shit kicked out of him”. In this day and age, we must recognize not everyone is “traditional” and even if one does not agree with others decisions, it should be respected. This is limited to those pretending a gender for pedophilic notions but this is not a necessary approach because in this situation it is evident. Besides that issue, this is to say that using the restroom behind a closed door regardless of gender shouldn't be so strange.  In conclusion, transgender people dress to fit the gender they identify as, not to offend.

Calm down, self-diagnosed conservative

 We now live in a hand-over-mouth/ears society, where anything you say can and will be taken offensive to. We are driven to the point of needing a physical safe place, one filled with puppies to calm our precious minds of all that is bad. Yeah, it has gone too far! Especially, to see that this sort of excitement takes place in a college setting not where you would expect controversial speech to be intolerable at times and limited far more than needed. A college is a learning place made to mature us and become more open minded to others opinions and worldly views. This is somewhat being terminated by "millennial pussies", who cannot stand to be triggered by anything and everything that they cannot fully wrap their heads around. The mention of Trump, gay, and/or sexual assault will have them running for the padded safe room provided to them by #concernedstudent1950. Taking away our right to say things that may offend these oversensitive adults takes away our freedom of speech and their own ability to go the f@ck up.

  In the article, "Can cries of 'free speech' be a weapon? students say yes"   by Jennifer Schuessler talks about how this generation may be turning against free speech because they just cannot handle the truth. Many are taking the "free speech or bust position", which is ironic because the goal is to limit our speech to fit their needs. I believe the generation that is being offended in this situation are significantly confused, also in Schuesslers article, a Gallup poll was showed an overwhelming amount in favor for freedom of speech which is not limited but also wanted to set restrictions on said 'unlimited' freedom of speech.

  Or are we the ones at fault? Maybe our middle-aged fellow persons need to be sheltered, it is a hard world out there and they do suffer the most (#thestruggle).
 Suppose a man is struggling right now in our local Starbucks because he heard that a homosexual black man was shot by the police, this is serious. I propose we build safe rooms filled with puppies on every street corner to support this minority.

   The world cannot be censored for our adults, although we try, it is too late to cover their ears to the world's filthy mouth. I mean words are just words until you self-diagnose yourself as a conservative.

  This is a ridiculous issue for something so large at hand, we won the freedom of speech and the right to express the 1st Amendment for what it is and to complain about it on the basis that it is offensive is not reason enough to revoke it. It is rather a reason to celebrate the amount of freedom we actually have. For example, I just said two cuss words and put homosexual, black, and shot into one sentence and have not been put behind bars, beaten to death, or even kicked out of school for such vulgar use of words because I am simply expressing my right to the 1st amendment.