Summary: A Day Without Feminism

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“A Day Without Feminism “ by Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards. I am going to start off by saying “I am not afraid of my truth anymore and I will not omit pieces of me to make you comfortable.” In the 1970’s “ when domestic violence isn’t a term , much less a crime, women are legally encouraged to to remain in abusive marriages.” I hate to say this, but that is true to this day in so many ways. I am speaking from experience. It was my senior year of high school I was sixteen getting ready to turn seventeen. It was my year. I was not your typical girl wearing makeup or play sports. Don’t get me wrong I would get all dolled up if I had something special to do. I had a part time job at Olive garden because my parents motto was “if you …show more content…

do not play a sport you need to work!” My mom used to say to me “you know Alana back in my time I was not able to work so you are very lucky you're able to work. One day my girlfriend was begging me to come hang out with her boyfriend and her boyfriends friend. He was twenty-one years old, to this day I do not understand why he wanted to date me.

I refused to meet him for a couple of months and when I ended up at a party with him, he made me laugh and we started talking on the phone every night. One month later I got pregnant with my son. I was shocked, I was on birth control and never missed a day. All I could think about is my catholic mom is going to kill me. She is liberal in some ways and conservative in other ways. She grew up in Massachusetts in a catholic portuguese family. She does not believe in abortion, she was raised to believe that the moment you conceive that is a human life. She told me to save myself for marriage. I am glad that women’s rights have evolved and I had the option to get an legal abortion because it is my body and I have the right to choose. I went to have an abortion and then I heard his heartbeat; I was pretty far along. I walked out and walked out.I went home and broke the news to my father first and then When my father told her I was pregnant the first thing she said to me was “ I will give you the money for an abortion.” I could not believe it. She said to me “my views have changed in the matter of five minutes Alana, you have the right to choose. You are so young.” My mom went up to my high school talked to the prinicipal about my pregnancy and she informed my mother that few of the staff and facility do not feel comfortable with a pregnant girl walking around the school.My parents informed …show more content…

them this is no longer the 60’s and 70’s we are not going to hide this, we are not going to let you kick our daughter out. My parents went to the school board and told the school board that their daughter is a straight A student and will not be kicked out because she is pregnant. In the end, I stayed at the main stream high school, graduated with straight A’s and I was eight months pregnant. In the 1970’s I would have been sent to a different high school to learn how to cook, sew, take care of the baby. I would have had to marry my ex-husband at the age of 17. I am very happy for the choice that I have made. I would not change it for the world. The other night I was telling my story to a friend and she informed me that she met the man the started researching birth control instead of cancer because his lab partner died from a coat hanger abortion. This happened in 1969, his lab partner did not have the money to pay for a legal abortion. She was raped one night one her way home from class. I am so glad that women have fought over time for blue light system. I am so happy that my family did not force me to marry my ex-husband and that I was able to marry him in my late twenties. Unfortunately over time things got worse my ex-husband had a problem with drinking, drugs, and women.

He was not able to hold a job. In the 1970’s men were responsible for taking care of the financial accept of the home while women stayed home and took take care the kids, cleaning, cooking and laundry. Not that it is a bad thing that their stay at home dads these days because women are providing for the home. I feel that in my ex-husbands case he has a disease he needs to get help for in turn it made him a lazy man that stayed home. I was the financial provider. I went to work every day while he was at home. Over time My ex-husband became physically and mentally abusive. He was arrested thirty-five times. Every time he was arrested he was released because the cops would say, “ well ma'am you hit him back, if you press charges he can press charges and your kids would go into foster care.” I would take him back every time thinking he is going to change, this will never happen again. Unfortunately it got worse. I found myself last December in another domestic dispute with my ex-husband on December 23,2014 I finally left him. My family had no idea the nightmare I was living in behind closed doors. At, my last court date the DA came up to me and said to me “we are sorry we failed you and your family. We should have fought harder for

you.” I am not looking for anyone to feel sorry for me. I lived with a narcissistic, abusive, multiplicative man for fourteen years. I am currently attending a support group every tuesday night which the DA referred me to. I am here to share my story. In some ways I am very happy that I do live in this time because, in the 1970’s there were few support groups for abused women. Over time more and more support groups for women have formed. I am currently looking into making myself whole again so one day I can support women who are going through the same thing I went through.

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