Today we talked about inquiry strands. I chose the feminism one because I've always been interested in women's rights. I looked at the websites Shanti posted. Some of them bothered me because I felt they were a little trivial and almost diminished women’s rights as an issue by focusing on the media when women are still forced into arranged marriages and have yet to gain the right to drive in some countries. An article about lack of actual lesbianism in Katy Perry's halftime show made me recoil at first. but when I really thought about it, the Super Bowl was viewed by 114.4 million people this year, so the ideas that are put across influence a significant number of people. I read a great article about taking beauty out of body positivity. Beauty is not a value, and you can be body positive without thinking you're beautiful. The truth is that not everyone is beautiful, but it shouldn’t matter because beauty should not equate to worth.
The other strand I considered was immigration. The Times had a really fascinating map with green bubbles on the countries that had people coming in and orange bubbles on the countries that had net people leaving. The bubbles were sized according to the population change. War torn countries have lots of people leaving, same with large poor countries with huge populations.
Ultimately, I'm more passionate about feminism.
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