Women's Rights ≠ Human Rights?

When I first read the UNIFEM  article, my emotions were like a crazy roller coaster with all of the ups and downs; a relatively uncomfortable feeling.
First, it is SO important to highlight how far society has come in actually addressing the issues that so many women face throughout the entire world.  In many ways, it reminded me of Betty Friedan's Feminist Mystique; everyone is thinking it, yet no one is willing to openly acknowledge how screwed up the system is, and thus people are conditioned to think women are not meant to have any mistreatment addressed nor fixed.
So when the UN actually took action against this travesty, it sort of made me heart flutter!  As UNIFEM said, by making personal struggles public, it allows for a sense of accountability that is rarely found on a global scale.
So with that being said, in a  way it distinguishes some aspects of 'gendered' violence. By exploiting the differences between how society deals with women's problems, versus men's problems.  Shouldn't they be handled equally? Alas, one of life's many mysteries.

Love,
Eliza

The Impact of Sex & Gender/ Sex vs Gender on Today's Society

Gendered objects.  Are objects truly gendered? There are boat loads of children's toys classified solely by the color and nature of the object, but shouldn't the gendered aspect be subjective? It is interesting to see how instead of breaking down the predisposition of 'genderizing', society subconsciously reinforces them.  So, why do we continuously buy into the structural violence?
For instance, while writing this blog, I told my boyfriend that I feel like Carrie Bradshaw.  "Who [insert explative] is that?"With a matter of fact tone, I said "sex and the city...how could you not know that?!"
He then responded by saying, "maybe because I'm not a woman."
And with that, I realized literally everyone does it, which is slightly horrifying to think the cycle could potentially never end, and we will live with socially constructed gender ideologies until the end of time... a bit melodramatic, but none the less, a scary thought.
It seems like society has simply grown to accept the ideology that gender can simply be split into two categories, when in reality, it is so much more than that.