Watching Half the Sky has been so eye-opening. Not because I wasn't aware of the problems that it addressed, but because the things that are being done to help fix all these problems are never highlighted. In our culture we have this fixation on the bad things. We want to know all the bad things that are going on. As long as they aren't happening to us, we love to know about misery. And we want to know what we can do to help right the wrongs.
But when you start showing people what's already being done to help, they start to feel bad about themselves that they aren't doing more. There are these amazing women all around the world doing such amazing things that I can't believe. And that I had no idea most of these women were doing these things really bothers me. It's so incredible that they are tackling these huge problems with little to no help, and no recognition and I feel so moved and inspired by them.
I consider myself to be a fairly active feminist; I do what I can with what I have and I seek out information about what else I can do. But even with the celebrity involvement in Half the Sky I might not have heard of it. My mother actually sent me in its direction when it was first on PBS, but I unfortunately missed it because of class conflicts.
Women do so much, and really do hold up half the sky. They need a louder voice to shout all the great things they do.
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