I was mowing the lawn today, which is alright, a chore that I'm kinof half and half about. While I was mowing I was thinking about making this thread. You see, when I mowe, I don't think about mowing, I think about anything else I can because it is such an arid task. Here in this thread, write what you were thinking about while doing an uninteresting task of yours, for example maybe mowing. Here is what I was thinking.
I was thinking about when I was in 8th grade, I had to do a written state essay about the fight for womens rights. Lets just say I'd rather would have been doing anything else (even mowing). So instead of writing facts and events in the essay, it was all about my oppinion. And I wrote exactly what I thought, which I think in my case was non-offensive. I am sure of that because it was handed to my parents whom were angry at the teachers for treating me wrongly for stateing my opinion. What I wrote abut was that Women should forget about what they weren't aloud to do in the past and now think about what they can do now, but I did not talk about my opinion on women's rights NOW such as equal treatment and payment in the workforce, and overall equal treatment. This thought about this incident made me move to another thought.
I thought to myself "If women are talking about equal treatment everywhere, does that mean that they would like men to stop opening doors for them, and almost bending over backwards for them?" I know bending over backwards is a more exteme word than I should have used, but out of my whole life I can only name a couple of times where women opened the door for me. It's always the little things that do me in, I like it when clerks try to strike up a conversation, or when they say have a nice day I like to say "You too" I do this because I know if I were them I would want them to do the same. Or when I walk into Best Buy and the guy at the opening say "Welcome, how are you today?" I like to smile and say "Thank you, mines fine hows yours?" I mean people could just say it and not even mean it, but that guy means it, and so are most of the clerks that I talk to, they may not at first, but once they know I do, they care. I guess its just the fact that I'm leaving someone with a smile on their face, I love that feeling.
Well, back on topic. The equal rights thing made me think, if a women hits you and wont stop, and is actually out to hurt you, are you aloud to hit her back? Don't misinterperate this becuase I'm not for hitting women ever. It's just, what if they were like on you, punching you, should you have the right to defend yourself. Do you have the right to defend yourself? Or what if you were in the work place, no wait, ANY PLACE, and a women said something to you that kind of struck you dumb, like something a contruction worker would say. Could you file harassment towards them? I guess I may never know, I hope I don't find myself in any situation like that.
I guess the whole basis, or what you could gain from my thinking is that there are alot boundaries between men and women as far as how we are equal or unequal. I think those boundaries are set by what people think is right and wrong, but as you could tell from this whole forum, people have different opinions. And I don't think that everyone is going to agree with one opinion ever.
*Please keep in mind that this whole thread is not about womens rights, although you can comment on what I thought about while mowing the lawn, still feel free to post what you think about in boring situations, or just situations that just make you think*
