Comments on: Homecoming Week Montgomery Blair High School Style

By: Staci

Staci — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:35:01 +0000

Thank your for your research.

By: kt

kt — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:51:46 +0000

i am so thrilled that you’re doing this! i’m 25 and i work with high school students doing dating abuse prevention work, and i would LOVE LOVE LOVE to see more of this happening. you rock!

By: Lizzie

Lizzie — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:36:34 +0000

I am 27 and went to an all girl highschool. It never occurred to lots of my contemporaries that women could not be leaders. So we got arrogant and assumed the whole world was like that. Then we got to college and had tutors who treated men like their equals and us like novelties. And then the workplace, and for many it got worse (not me thank God – my colleagues are all awesome and have an equalist, meritocratic mindset).

Therefore I think what Nellie B is doing is particularly praiseworthy, because it will give her contemporaries arguments and armor against discrimination BEFORE they most need it – you may need it in school but not as much as you will when instead of an SAT score that is unarguably earned, it’s a salary that MAY be priced based on your gender. By preempting the problem you prevent it ever becoming as severe. I salute you.

I must encourage you, however, to be sure that you bring boys into your group and discuss your goals with them. Show them the numbers; the infant deaths, the illiteracy, the rapes, the loneliness (male and female), the unsafe abortions, the poverty, the rampant disease, the drug use, the trafficking, the geniuses of both sexes trapped in the lives of simpletons, the wars, the terrorism – all things that grossly unequal, patriarchal societies cause. Show them that you cannot protest the dictator who oppresses you if you then go home and oppress your wife, because you have made his argument for him. Show them that the husbands/boyfriends of feminists and educated women have more and better sex (it’s true; look it up!), earn more money, live longer, have more educated and healthier children, and self-report that they are happier. Show them that owning 99% of a patriarchal world will leave them poorer than owning 50% of an equal one. They are your best allies; remember that.

By: Kerry

Kerry — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 05:47:23 +0000

I’m thrilled that Blair has a Women’s Advocacy Group! I graduated five years ago and I haven’t really kept up with things there (I live in CA now), so I’m glad to see students still care about these issues and that you girls are being proactive.

By: Sara

Sara — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:26:34 +0000

I went to Montgomery Blair (wow, was it really 6 years ago that I graduated?), and I’m thrilled to see that there’s now a Women’s Advocacy Group! I remember MBHS being progressive (you’d have to be in Silver Spring!), but those ideals were constantly running up against the ordinary bigotry and ignorance of teenagers. From a MBHS alum, rock on!

By: Shoshana

Shoshana — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:53:01 +0000

HEY DIANE
So I actually live in your area and go to BCC high school (do you know Sara Gregerman?). BCC had never had a feminist club until this year and actually I started it with a couple other friends. We have a few ideas on what we want to do such as volunteering at a women’s shelter, rallies/protests, and discussing women’s issue, we are also going to the Equality March on the mall October 11 (do you know about it?). I was just wondering if you had any tips? or things you like to do at your meetings. It would be such a help as we’re a little overwhelmed because we had such a fabulous response of interested people at our activities fair. please e-mail me if you could: shoshana.m.erlich@gmail.com
Thank you so much and i send my best wishes to the Women’s Advocacy Group from the Feminist Club of BCC.

By: Toongrrl(formerly known as Jess)

Toongrrl(formerly known as Jess) — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 18:53:51 +0000

I love the blue girl.
@Sheridan
I am still glad I’m out of high school, speaking of teen misogyny.

By: Sheridan

Sheridan — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 23:27:19 +0000

These are some great posters.
I applaud you for your efforts to bring gender equality to your high school! As a sophomore at public school, I see how bad the majority of teenage boys’ attitudes are towards women, and how much this effects the young ladies who surround them. This is a great idea.

By: Amy CT

Amy CT — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 20:29:36 +0000

As a Brit, I have no idea what home-coming is (although if anyone fancies explainging, I would be very grateful!), but I still think that this kind of thing should be endorsed by all schools.

I go to a very liberal school (my history teacher has “The Encyclopedia of Feminism” on her desk), and because so many of the girls are openly feminist (that makes it sound bad, right?), the guys get a kick out of riling us.

I think any High School would benefit from this sort of thing.

By: RebJ

RebJ — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 13:42:34 +0000

This is SO GREAT to hear right now, especially since my school is going through “homecoming week” right now–including all the sexist, ridiculous, border-line misogynistic traditions that it implies. I feel like feminism is totally dead in my school now, and it is so refreshing and uplifting to see these pictures. I applaud your efforts!