#metoo #timesup: My Response

          For many years, women have been used and taken advantage of by many people young or old. Men are usually the ones to blame for these cases because in there heads they think and believe it is right to take advantage of a female. However many men don't dwell in that world where woman are used. It seems that these actions are starting assumptions in the media. Because so much of this is happening the media is focusing more on the bad news on the topic rather than what is right.

          The Women's March is held every year by mostly women to protest about women being put down and how woman shouldn't be used like objects. Most of the people that participate are feminists. Feminists try to make things right and equal for women all over the world. Many well know people in the world are feminists like Hillary Clinton and Emma Watson. In my opinion I feel this movement is helpful but it is being covered by all the negative news, especially the ones that contain cases of sexual assault, sexual harassment, rape, and many other negative things that relate to women being abused. On that day of the Women's March, from my point of view the media didn't really seem to focus on that movement that much. The movement is a sign of hope for those out there who support and aid the women of the world. However due to the Weinstein effect it seems like foul play is more important than a peaceful rally. The Weinstein effect is an effect where many famous male celebrities are being accused by women that they have sexually assaulted or sexually harassed them. This is named after Harvey Weinstein because all of these allegations have been coming up after many women, even celebrities have said Weinstein has sexually assaulted or sexually harassed them. After that many celebrities have been labelled to have sexually assaulted women in the past.

    The hashtags #metoo and #timesup has encouraged people especially women to come forward to talk about how they have been sexually assaulted or sexually harassed. Many of these responses contain celebrities that I have enjoyed watching. For example one of my favourite bands Hedley was accused of sexual allegations. This made me a little sad because the band has helped me through hard times especially with their song "On My Own". After 2 weeks Jacob Hoggard of Hedley confessed he did some bad things and the band has chosen to go on hiatus for a while. This saddened me more because I won't hear from one of my favourite bands for a while and they'll probably stop their pattern of a new album two years from when the previous one was released.

   Overall, I hope this trend that brings out negativity to women STOPS. Let's hope the world can become a better place where men don't harm women for their own pleasure. I won't get myself involved too much but every one needs to find their gentle and kinder side of themselves so they can live happy with no harm involved.

Women Fired For Giving The Finger: My Response

        When Donald Trump was named The New president of The United States of America, many people were disappointed or outraged. Many things happened in the first 100 days for Donald Trump with many new plans and many problems that would be resolved soon after. Over the past few months people finally accepted that Donald Trump was going to be the president for the next four years. From what I have seen, people are still out there rebelling against the Republican's and Donald Trump.

    The article states that the vehicles that goes around with President Donald Trump passed by a woman who was doing her daily bike ride.  She then realized the vehicles and she flipped the bird directly towards the vehicles. The woman was fired from her job for her actions and she even stated that she'll do it again. When I saw this article I thought to myself, "Well, many people would give the middle finger to someone that they dislike." In my opinion they shouldn't have fired the woman for her actions but put her on suspension from her job instead. For example if you give the middle finger to someone at school, there's a pretty low chance you will get expelled from school. You would most likely get suspended from school and a call to your parents. I could see that she was fired because she did it to government officials but comparing it to school again. If I gave the middle finger to any of the teachers, principals, or representatives in my school I would get into A LOT of trouble, BUT I would probably get another chance and stay at the same school if I only did it once. I also feel the people at her workplace were scared that Donald Trump would go after the company or the people in charge of her workplace and tweet about it.  From what I've seen, Trump won't really care about one person in one workplace in one state in one city. They were probably just scared from what the media says about him. Trump probably already knows many people hate him (including the Democrats) and this is just something on a low level compared to others (CNN and Kim Jong Un A.K.A Rocket Man.)

    Overall, this just shows how much people hate Donald Trump and how people get consequences for doing something they should've thought about doing before doing it. In my opinion people should just be patient until 2020 and try not to think about Trump too much. Even though the media is riding on his back everywhere and it's hard to resist, it shouldn't get into peoples head too much. Some day people are just going to get bored of news based on him and anything with his name in it.

      

Players Take A Knee: My Response

     For months now NFL players have been taking a knee for the national anthem. Many people have started to do it when Donald Trump was elected for President.  Many of the athletes in the NFL are African American and when Trump tweeted out about taking a knee, the athletes didn't want to obey someone who is labelled racist.
 
   The NFL Players just wanted to show their loyalty to their country. However one person who thinks there is only one way to honour a country forbids the NFL players to honour their country one way. From I have read an NFL player took a knee during the national anthem to promote/protest on police brutality and abuse on the black community. Many people have protested against this action of kneeling saying that it does not honour to the country and it does not show allegiance to the flag. Colin Kaepernick was one of the first athletes to be called out for kneeling during the national anthem  Since then, Kaepernick was signed off from the NFL and he then filed a lawsuit against the NFL. Since then athletes in the NFL and other sports have kneeled down during the national anthem. Even athletes in Canada are kneeling during their national anthem. When Trump tweeted his thoughts about kneeling during the National Anthem, the situation got more worse and the protests got bigger to show even bigger messages of freedom and other things.

     In my opinion you should have the freedom to be in any position during the national anthem, as long as it honours the country and salutes to the flag. I feel it was unreasonable for Trump to tell people the only way to honour the country through the national anthem is by standing. I've witnessed many people sitting and kneeling during national anthems because they feel it is right. In Canada the national anthem's lyrics are "O, Canada, we Stand on guard for thee." These lyrics can be a reason why we should stand during a national anthem. The American national anthem does not say anything about standing up or standing proud so people in the U.S.A should be able to be in any position they want. I also feel the people who are against the kneeling protest don't really get the message on why they are kneeling. They're kneeling for rights and freedom which should be in all countries with no excuse.  Overall I feel there is no proper way of honouring your country during the national anthem. People have their own ways and beliefs to live in the country they live in and they should all be respected without excluding anyone.