Current Event

http://time.com/3892965/everydaysexism-school-dress-codes-rape-culture/

This current event is a movement to ban school dress codes that make women feel uncomfortable and embarrassed when wearing "scandalous" clothing that are supposedly distracting to boys. Girls get pulled out of class to be slut shamed while boys can do whatever they want. Taking away someones education because of how they dress? I don't think so.  Uhh maybe men can learn to respect women. Girls don't feel the need to stare at boys who wear those shirts that have little to no fabric on the sides which are pretty scandalous if you ask me, so I think boys could manage to focus in class even if a girl's bra strap is showing. People should be able to wear whatever the want. This includes my girl Scout who enjoys wearing pants, not dresses like other girls.

"Aunt Alexandra was fanatical on the subject of my attire. I could not possibly hope to be a lady if I wore breeches; when I said I could do nothing in a dress, she said I wasn't supposed to be doing things that required pants." (Lee,92)
 Scout is a young girl being taught that she can only hope to be a real lady if she wears dresses not pants. The victims of the school dress codes are being taught that the way they are dressing is inappropriate because it distracts men. What about what women wear is anyone's business but their own? Telling  women to wear certain types of clothes to make them look more feminine or modest is teaching men that it's okay to push us girls around.

The Trial

In the book "To Kill A Mockingbird" there was a trial that took place. The trial was about how Mayella Ewell acused Tom Robinson of raping her. Through the chapter 19 Mayella had a hard time staying on topic. An example is on page 183 paragraph 3 Atticus said "yes don't you know anyone near your age, or older, or younger? Boys and girls? Just ordinary friends?" Mayella hostility, which had subsided to grudging neutrality,flared again, "You makin' fun o'me agin, Mr.Finch?" 

What I feel was wrong throughout the trial was Mayella was putting her personal feelings in the case and feeling insulted. What should have happened was Mayellla should have stated what happened and answered the questions accordingly. My opinion towards Mayella is she is probably my lest favorite character

A current event is similar to the trial would be how all Muslims are terrorists, many people are racist towards them because of what happened to Paris and twin towers . Just like during the trial they were being racist because of Tom's race.

Patriarchy in the elections

     Patriarchy has always existed and always will exist. Its wrong but its something that will always be here because it started long ago, its every ones own thoughts that make it still be around. Like racism yes we got rid of the slavery and Jim crow laws but racism isn't over because its what people think, we cant change that and its the same thing with patriarchy.
     It is 2015 right now when i am writing this and the new soon to be presidents are waiting for the votes. They are all men except one- Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton is a woman who is running for president; we have never had a woman president. There are men who are running for president and some are terrible like Donald Trump, but Donald Trump is winning the election right now. He insulted hispanic people and he insulted woman, during his election he said "she must be on her period," he insulted woman for having periods. He isn't a role model at all he is a terrible person, but look he is still winning the elections, why you ask ? Donald Trump is a man and Hillary Clinton is a woman. We have never had a woman president because men don't think we can do, men think they're better than us , stronger than us, they think we cant do it. Here is a link that shows lots of reasons why Hillary Clinton isn't picked as president other than the reasons i gave.
14 Percent of Democrats Will Not Support Hillary Clinton. Only Bernie Sanders Prevents Low Voter Turnout | H. A. Goodman

   In TKAM woman cant do everything men can do like when Scout says "but i cant do anything in a dress." Aunt Alexandra said "well your not supposed to be doing things that require pants." This is like saying that woman shouldn't be doing the things that men do, but doing certain things doesn't describe who you are we just have this stupid idea in our head about whats wrong and whats right. Aunt Alexandra wanted Scout to wear a dress but is wearing overalls bad ? No its not there is nothing wrong with a girl wearing overalls, a girl should be able to wear what she wants and do what she wants (as long as its legal) because we are just as good as men!

Crazy redneck people doing crazy things

“He in there, Mr. Finch?” a man said. “He is,” we heard Atticus answer, “and he’s asleep. Don’t wake him up.” In obedience to my father, there followed what I later realized was a sickeningly comic aspect of an unfunny situation: the men talked in near-whispers. “You know what we want,” another man said. “Get aside from the door, Mr. Finch.”

This quote happens when a bunch of drunk rednecks surround the county jail, to try and murder Tom Robinson before he got to trial, and is related to how Robert Dear recently shot three people and injured nine in a shooting targeting planned parenthood. These situations are similar because both involve men shooting to attempting to shoot someone based on race, or in the recent case, using planned parenthood.
Dear is sexist and a part of the patriarchy because he is attempting to destroy the reproductive rights of women, as shown by him attacking an abortion clinic.





http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/12/02/reports-suspect-targeted-planned-parenthood-before/76658856/

http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/30/us/colorado-planned-parenthood-shooting/

Wage Gap in North Carolina

http://www.thinkncfirst.org/research/what-is-north-carolinas-wage-gap-costing-women This article shows the data that supports men getting paid more than women in North Carolina. The average amount of money men make per year is $7299 more than the average amount of money that women make per year. Women obviously need that money more than the men because women are the people who have to put up with the men which is possibly the hardest job in the world. To me this relates to the men in to kill a mockingbird having better jobs than the women. Atticus was a lawyer and was able to support his family by himself and afford a maid while the other women rarely worked and if they did it was not much at all because they had husbands to support them. This is wrong because with the women depending so much on the men it was very hard to get out of that situation and start working to provide for themselves. Women only in the past 30ish years are learning how to provide for themselves but it should have been done so long ago.

The Trial

In the trial Mayella, who is the daughter of Bob Ewell claimed that Tom Robinson, a black man assaulted and raped her. She was so afraid of her father that she lied. She also was guilty and like a child she needed to blame someone and get rid of the evidence. She broke the "rule" of segregation because she kissed a black man, being a white woman. Tom was put on trial as the scapegoat for a crime he wasn't even close to committing. He showed compassion and kindness to a white woman and he "god forbid" felt "sorry for her" which wasn't okay for him apparently but even when everyone knew of Bob's drinking problem and the strong notion he beats his own children as well as sexually assaulted one they still put tom Robinson away. Why? because no one wants to ever think for a minuet that tom was a kind hearted man all because he was black. And Mayella, has to take the abuse which disgusts me. You are not strong when you force power from someone. We see woman a weaker humans and blame them for what happens. In the book I feel as though the topic of rape was introduced to show how powerless it makes someone feel, and how it shouldn't be taken lightly.

“I say guilt, gentlemen, because it was guilt that motivated her. She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honoured code of our society, a code so severe that whoever breaks it is hounded from our midst as unfit to live with. She is the victim of cruel poverty and ignorance, but I cannot pity her: she is white. She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it. She persisted, and her subsequent reaction is something that all of us have known at one time or another. She did something every child has done—she tried to put the evidence of her offense away from her. But in this case she was no child hiding stolen contraband: she struck out at her victim—of necessity she must put him away from her—he must be removed from her presence, from this world. She must destroy the evidence of her offence.

“What was the evidence of her offence? Tom Robinson, a human being. She must put Tom Robinson away from her. Tom Robinson was her daily reminder of what she did. What did she do? She tempted a Negro.

“She was white, and she tempted a Negro. She did something that in our society is unspeakable: she kissed a black man. Not an old Uncle, but a strong young Negro man. No code mattered to her before she broke it, but it came crashing down on her afterwards." (Lee, 203-204)

Tom should have never been convicted and Mayella's father needs to be taken away.

TKAM Trial

Blog 4: Report on the trial

The trial of “To Kill A Mockingbird”

Well... What can you say? the southern town declared Tom Robinson guilty of abusing and raping Mayella Ewell when the crime was most likely done by Bob Ewell. Mayella was in the wrong for trying to seduce or draw in Tom Robinson because she caused a lot of trouble. The trial ended with Tom Robinson being sent to jail. One day in the exercise yard at the jail Tom was spotted running to the fence when the supervisors shot him senseless. 17 times that was a little bit too extreme, if Tom was trying to escape at least they could have shot him in the leg to get him to stop running, but not too kill him, he was innocent and had a family. This all was started by the mental anger of Bob Ewell... The death of Tom Robinson is on the guilty conscious of Bob Ewell, but will Bob Ewell receive the same treatment of death? “There's a black boy dead for no reason, and the man responsible for it's dead. Let the dead bury the dead this time”

Like this event in TKAM. Tom Robinson was treated unfairly for being black and supposedly raping a woman, another black man was charged similarly too. Till was a 14 year old boy who was visiting his relatives in Mississippi. He was charged with flirting with a white woman... and later that day he was at his uncle's house when men came and gourged his eye out, beat him and shot him till he died for something he didn’t do like Tom Robinson. Both boys were charged unfairly and justice was not served only death was.

https://atlantablackstar.com/2015/01/09/worst-cases-white-people-wrongfully-accusing-black-people-committing-crimes/