Girls in the Hood
GIRLS IN THE HOOD In Barbra Streisiand's speech at the 1992 Crystal Awards, she expresses discontent with the negative "way women are viewed in a male dominated society". She has a strong dislike for the fact that women and men are respected and admired for reasons that are so alike and defined degradingly different. I understand her anger and I think she is handeling it in the most effective manner possible. She is at the ceremony to present or receive an award. In theory, she should be giving a speech to the committee that has recognized her work, thanking them for validating her creative spirit, and thanking everyone for their support. She was supposed to be happy, shining, graceful, and content. But instead of being all of these things, she was angry and she expressed herself. "Language gives us an insight...", a very limited, negative, and opinionated definition of women. She used her power and status and power to promote her beliefs and I am positive that this speech did not go smoothly with the critics. Streisiand is aware that we live in a wor
This means we have been 'given' psuedo-equality. From my observation of the place women sat at cubicles, slaved for male bosses, and were beautiful-and that was their job. I am in school to be an attorney and at sixteen I worked my first internship. At the tender age of sixteen I walked into the glass wall. Chad was automatically taken into client meetings and assigned to case evaluations. McCall laughed for a minute and said, "Well Missy, you sure are aggressive and demanding but it will get you far. I was shocked and I went to the director of the firm and asked if I could be reassigned to research and case work because I had the art in preparing coffee mastered. Brenda when will I go into client meetings and start to do case research and she asked why would I want to do that. But the fact that there were and still are no women on the Senate judiciary Committee is still a picture of the sad, nonprogressive state of our country. I personally think it is more important to be respected than liked. ld that pisses on women's legs and tries to conveince us it is raining.
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