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What I noticed most about this article was that it was published in 1972 yet it appears (by Morgan's and Abratchi's comments) that I am not the only one who forgot this while I was reading it. It doesn't say a lot for the improvement of the welfare system in this country when a statement like "In this country if you're any one of those things--poor, black, fat, female, middle-aged, on welfare- you count less as a human being. If you're all those things you don't count at all except as a statistic." ( page 286) is still just as relevant in today's society. I cant even count how many times I personally have had to remind people that most of the people in this country on welfare are children, and that the fat, lazy, unemployed story they like to bring up so often is not the norm. I hope that 38 years from now someone doesn't read a testimonial of today's Johnnie Tillmon and think the same exact thing as I have.... -Ssellers | What I noticed most about this article was that it was published in 1972 yet it appears (by Morgan's and Abratchi's comments) that I am not the only one who forgot this while I was reading it. It doesn't say a lot for the improvement of the welfare system in this country when a statement like "In this country if you're any one of those things--poor, black, fat, female, middle-aged, on welfare- you count less as a human being. If you're all those things you don't count at all except as a statistic." ( page 286) is still just as relevant in today's society. I cant even count how many times I personally have had to remind people that most of the people in this country on welfare are children, and that the fat, lazy, unemployed story they like to bring up so often is not the norm. I hope that 38 years from now someone doesn't read a testimonial of today's Johnnie Tillmon and think the same exact thing as I have.... -Ssellers | ||
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| + | I too thought there were similarities between 1972 and today when reading this article. When Johnnie Tillmon points out that "the truth is a job doesn't necessarily mean an adequate income" (pg. 288) she could be talking about today, especially for women. We talked about the wage gap in class a bit yesterday, but it was fitting because yesterday was actually Equal Pay Day. With the current wage gap, women who worked for all of 2009 had to work until April 20, 2010 to earn the same amount that men made in 2009 alone. That illustrates how significant a problem pay differences are today, and they were worse for women like Tillmon trying to support their families. -Mary Ann | ||
==Sex and Sports, Mariah Burton Nelson, 1994== | ==Sex and Sports, Mariah Burton Nelson, 1994== | ||
