It's YOUR Turn, Ladies!

Hurray for sexual revolutions!

If you read An Immodest Proposal by Heather Corinna on Scarleteen, you'll know exactly what I'm talking about. I love this article. It's a declaration, a proposal, a poem--all at once.
And I'm very serious about the poetic part. It's very, very beautiful.

It's time to change our ideas about sexual initiation.



SRSLY.

Enlist, Serve, Learn.

No I'm not talking about the Canadian Army. I'm talking about the All-Girl Army.
This is amazing. Finally a chance for young women from 10-23 of all shapes, sizes colours, and types to express themselves with some sort of authority. I find it important that young people are given a voice, especially when they're the age group that gets labeled the most.

I especially enjoyed reading a post by Irmelin called Se(x)education. It tells about how sex-ed was taught to her, and how Scarleteen (a BIG favourite of mine) showed her how it should have been. Her story is quite moving, if I may be a little bit cliché.

Here's some news; I've sent in an application to be in the AGA. It's really exciting for me! Hopefully I'll get chosen. I LOVE this project.

And interestingly enough, it's influencing me to write more.
Great, eh?

Well, God Said I Could!

Today was interesting.
Yet another in-class debate at Catechesis classes.

Basically it was about sex, gender roles, stereotypes, and generalizations. I do actually enjoy the conversations that we get into without even realizing it, but one thing bothered me.

We're Catholic and we're supposed to wait until we're married, right? So then there's no need for contraceptives!

Ugh. What my teacher, Maureen, didn't know was that despite what she said before about "at least four of the students in the room getting someone pregnant or becoming pregnant before high school" and what she had said before, there is a need for contraceptives. She basically proved herself wrong within a span of half an hour. You see, these hypothetical unwanted pregnancies wouldn't exist if people just thought about it.

Well, you know, we're having sex. But we're not married. I guess if we don't use contraception, we'll just be sinning less than we "already are"!

That's how the catholic church is training the teens to think. And that's where they're wrong. Maybe they just need something to blame. But thank god that my teacher, Mrs. Donoghue-Stanford, knows how NOT to force her ideals on such an impressionable group of people. Mrs. Donoghue says:

You MUST make an informed decision...take the information that you get from everyone: parents, teachers, friends, and other people that you look up to. The rest is between you and God.

Maybe other people may not agree with this, but I personally find this as some form of salvation after four years of no sex-ed at a time when everyone needs it most.