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    Classic paper books - Time to retire?

    in The Debate Chat

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    I'm an avid reader. I read both paperbacks and electronic. Don't have a kindle, but my brother does, and he's an avid reader. He reads on paperback as well, but he travels a lot for work, so he fills his kindle up with lots and lots of book, and in that situation, it's better to use a kindle.

     

    I definitely don't think paperbacks should retire because:

     

    1. The smell!? Even with old books, it smells amazing.

    2. The sound of the crack when you open a new book.

    3. Two words. Picture books. I think it's really weird to read one on electronic. The Hungry Caterpillar. If You Give o Mouse A Cookie. Can you imagine reading it on electronic? I know it's possible, but it's weird.

    4. I love reading in bed, and accidentally dropping a book on my face doesn't hurt as much as dropping my ipad on my face. Unless you read a hardcover, but even then.

    5. If I lose my book, it won't cost me so much to replace one, but I think I'd freak out nonetheless, even if it's only $7.

    6. I like to annotate some of the books I read. Weird, I know. But it's so much easier to annotate on a paperback than on my ipad.

    7. When I really like the paperback book, I splurge and buy the nice hardcover book, because the story is just that awesome.

    8. Like a lot people say, books don't run out of batteries. I had a few blackouts one summer in my home. By then, my entire family was an Internet family. Meaning, most of the time we spent entertaining ourselves was on the Internet. You can imagine the panic that sat in when there was no electricity. With that said, I panicked for a bit, got over it, and plopped a book on my lap. Granted I needed a reading light, because it was night time, and said reading light has batteries, but it got me through the 2 hours just fine.

     

    Of course I read online as well. I'd say I probably read just as much on my laptop, ipad, and phone as I do with paperbacks. I get a lot of varieties and I get to read stories that are usually not published.

     

    I'm not saying hate on electronics for books, because I love it. But don't get rid of paperbacks. They're awesome.

    Yes All Women

    in The Debate Chat

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    Just saw this topic. Really glad to see all the conversation going on.

     

    I remember "being sorry" as well for not cleaning, or having food ready on the table, or basically being an all-around super woman. Because that's how I felt I had to be, perfect. I never said, "sorry" all the time, but then it hit me that I was being like that and I didn't know why. I told my boyfriend and he was puzzled as well, since he didn't expect me to be perfect or have food ready on the table. I realize I had put those expectations there, because how I was raised (or how my parents tried to raise me) and of all the movies and shows I watched.

     

    This is why I'm glad we have conversations like these because it helps break the systematic hold women and men are in, and makes us really think and be self-aware.

     

    I remember studying a play written by a woman in the 80s (some of the stuff were really weird), but we had a discussion on the word "feminism" and how the playwriter said she "wasn't a feminist". Somehow, by that time "feminism" had a bad rap, because many young women associated with anger, masculinity, hate, and single life. Apparently, there was a new wave of femnists that tried to not be so confrontational and tried to emphasize less on female and more on both genders.

     

    I don't think there's an absolute right answer, though there are wrongs, but I think the bigger problem is the "categorizing". I think that's why so many people are split with whether they are feminists or not. Or if they are a "better" type of feminists.

     

    Feminism, to it's core, is about believing that women have a choice, and they are allowed to choose. Either choose whoever they want to be, who they want to be with, or what life they want to lead. It's about letting women choose and respecting that decision.

     

    Saying,"I don't believe in feminism" or "I'm not a feminist because I'm a..." Whatever is short hanging yourself, because now you're categorizing yourself, and I don't know about you guys, but I live action movies, and hate romantic comedies, but love romantic novels. I live sweat pants, but also love high heels. I don't put make up daily, but love getting dolled up for a special occasion.

     

    No one person fits in only one category. We're all people of depth and dimension. We're contradicting by nature. We're not "you're either this or that". Putting myself into a category short changed me because I was really confused why I was like this, but then I was like that.

     

    Viola Davis said it perfectly when asked what advice she'd give to young girls, "to not live someone else's life, and not someone else's idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you." I believe the same goes for manhood.

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