Blog 5

Beautiful Day By U2
Hands by Jewel
Get Up Stand Up by Bob Marley
Just A Girl by No Doubt
All Star by Smash Mouth
Bitch By Meredith Brooks
Grey Street by Dave Matthews
Anything by Dave Matthews
Goodbye Earl by Dixie Chicks

This list of songs represents gender for me for many reasons. I believe that everyone does some soul searching in their life and that is what inspired these songs. Being a girl or just trying to establish Independence in a world where success is measured by the amount of money a person makes rather than by the amount of people they have helped or have been helped by. Gender is very tricky and requires each person to define it in a way that will help them along the path of self discovery.
I don't think my taste in music had change a whole lot over the years. The 90's was the era that I most influenced by music. I still love and listen to most of the music I listened to in the 90's.

Response to the readings
My mom cleaned offices at night and babysat and cleaned homes during the day. Holding two jobs was difficult for her and she hardly ever adjusted her prices when the cost of living went up for fear of losing her clients. From the time that I was young I knew that there was a big difference between classes. When I would go to some of the fancy homes or offices to help my mom, my mom would always tell me I needed to marry a man that worked in one of those office building so he could buy me one of those houses. She believed that being a wife of a rich man would end all worries. I didn't marry a rich man, but I also don't depend on my husband. I don't want to have to work two jobs to support my daughter if I ever do get a divorce. I learned that lesson from my mom.

As far as the women's movement goes, I fear that the responsibility for accomplishing all feminist goals is going to fall into the hands of lesbians. There are plenty of straight women who advocate women's rights. But by the time they get married, have children and start to juggle their careers, they get to busy for feminism. There may be some straight women who participate in the feminist movement, but the majority of this burden will fall on our sister lesbians.