{"id":1178,"date":"2008-04-11T17:23:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-11T21:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=1178"},"modified":"2008-04-11T17:23:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-11T21:23:00","slug":"feminist-awakening-at-age-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/04\/11\/feminist-awakening-at-age-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Feminist Awakening at Age 14"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The WGLs as a group do not support the same candidate, but I just had to share this post<\/a> from 14-year old feminist Samantha French, over at my blog today, Girl with Pen<\/a>. It begins:<\/p>\n


As we all know, the buzz around America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s college campuses is Barack Obama and how he represents change for America. According to the media, he has overwhelming appeal to the country\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so-called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153youth.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d And it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s true. The phrase \u00e2\u20ac\u0153yes we can\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is being inhaled faster than pot brownies and Jell-O shots at a frat party. However, what the media seems to be consistently ignoring is the opinions of the country\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s real, good old-fashioned, disenfranchised youth: high school students. Who are almost unanimously pro-Hilary.<\/p>\n

OK, so I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m dreaming.<\/p>\n

As a female freshman in Bard High School Early College<\/a>, one of New York\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s more liberal high schools where nearly two-thirds of the student body are females, there is not huge support for Hillary, which makes me sad. Many people at Bard, both male and female, support Obama because they are \u00e2\u20ac\u0153tired of the Clintons\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (a notion which they have obviously been fed by their parents. Think about it: the last time a Clinton was in office they were eight at the very most).<\/p>\n

At first, I agreed with them. My dad\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a die-hard Obama supporter and so are a lot of my friends. But the turning point came for me when I saw how upset and truly devoted Hillary was to the race after her defeat at the Iowa caucus. The moment that the cameras revealed her sad eyes, I realized that I was seeing in her something rarely seen in any presidential candidate: a human being. While my father continued to be very pro-Obama (re-recording Twisted Sister\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I Wanna Rock,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d titled, I Want Barak<\/a>,)\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand put pressure on me to agree with him\u00e2\u20ac\u201dI felt a connection with Hillary after that night.
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Sam is a student at Writopia Lab,<\/a> a writing enrichment program located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. You can read the rest here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The WGLs as a group do not support the same candidate, but I just had to share this post from 14-year old feminist Samantha French, over at my blog today, Girl with Pen. It begins: As we all know, the buzz around America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s college campuses is Barack Obama and how he represents change for America. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}