The trolls are out again!

Honestly, I get so much 'feels' from internet trolls. They really feed this blog.

Here we go: Actress Jessica Chastain has a few thoughts on how the world creates harmful boundaries for young women (via Channel 4 News). "Society trains women to be quiet and grateful, and we need to push away from that brainwashing. In our society, women are raised to think they can't be politicians, CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, filmmakers. We are born as little girls thinking we can do whatever we want and society teaches us and shows us otherwise by eliminating examples of women in the media." "It was shocking to me that after the first debate... people were critiquing Hillary Clinton saying she was overprepared for the debate. Men have never been called over prepared. I would like the leader of the nation to be over prepared for the job... I think it really dives into how confronting it is for some people to see a woman who is over prepared- let's just say prepared because there is no such thing as over prepared- who is prepared, ambitious, conscientious, and what it says about those people criticizing those women."

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Jazzy Feisty : People said she was overprepared but it can be taken in many different ways. As a negative thing, as people are doing here (always the victim!) or as a positive thing. A politician who studies too hard comes off as too rehearsed, too stiff, not authentic... She had left the campaign trail to prepare. Those two things proved to be her biggest downfalls, abandoning the campaign trail and being too stiff. 

Also- what part of society teaches women to aim for less? If you are told when you are little "you can be anything you want to be", at what point does society take over and tell you to aim for less? In both high school and college, my valedictorians were women. My most successful friends are women. Idk what society this (rich, entitled) woman grew up in but it sure doesn't seem like society ever told her to aim low. She's wearing clothing and jewelry that most of her fans could NEVER afford.

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Sylvia Ann She didn't grow up rich.

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Jazzy Feisty: Sylvia Ann what does that have to do with anything? She is rich now, so thus society didn't exactly train her to aim low.

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Ambre Burt I believe Sylvia Ann meant she was not entitled so to call her such belittles her achievements, regardless of how wealthy she may now be

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Jazzy Feisty: Ambre Burt She is entitled in that she uses her wealth and social status as a platform to talk about something that she herself proves to be not true. If society truly teaches women to aim low, then she must be an anomoly. So must Oprah, so must Sandra Day O'connor, so must Martha Stewart (she built an empire), so must Ivanka Trump, so must Tyra Banks, so must Janet Yellen, so must Mary Barra, so must Sheryl Sandberg, so must Susan Wojcicki, so must Meg Whitman, so must Ginni Rometty, so must Indra Nooyi. If you don't know those names, google them. I'd rather hear them talk about how society shapes women and holds them back than an entitled movie star.

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Meredith Mack Your logical fallacy is glaring. Your female high school valedictorian example doesn't mean that there still isn't the underlying social norm is that men are the leaders. 

I too grew up watching strong women in my family and community who were leaders. But they were that way in spite of the norm not because of it

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Cheryl Grundy I can assure you, the women you named above had to fight very hard to break through the glass ceiling and for their success. They are the pioneers.
http://fortune.com/2015/01/14/why-so-few-women-ceos/

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Erlene Grise-Owens Jazzy: you are just reinforcing the points. 😔

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Kathryn Mary Horne Yes, you're told you can be anything when you're little... but do tell me... do you find toy cars in the boy aisle or the girl aisle of the toy store? Do you find pretend tools in the boy aisle or the girl aisle? 

Hell, even toy globes are sold in pink and blue. 

The point of the matter is this: we are taught at a very young age that there is a role that each gender has to play, and there are certain jobs that boys should be doing and jobs that girls should be doing. So the "you can be anything you want" thing you're told as a child eventually gets watered down over time, and you come to realize that you can do anything... within societal expectation. 

Women in science fields have their work stolen all the time. This has been a common trend throughout history. Women have contributed a number of marvelous inventions to human progression, and yet ask anyone and they will assume those things were invented by men. 

I am not saying it is men's fault, but it is the fault of us as a society who puts those gender expectations on our children, even unknowingly, and allow them to believe that they must grow into a certain gender mold we have set out for them. 

So yes, women do typically aim for less... because of the things we learn and observe as children.

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Pamela Morrow Foley Jazzy "Movie stars" have 1st amendment rights, just like you do. Get over it.

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Rachael Rogers When will people realize that scientifically, genetically, hormonally, and physically females are DIFFERENT from males??!! We MAKE our own choices, and our brains typically make different choices than males' do. We naturally are not usually as combative and forward as men. We aren't trained to be quiet, we choose to be quiet. Less women fill those upper echelon positions, because those women wanted other things.

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Lacy Zapata Not all girls are told they can be anything. Believing that is also a position of privilege. There might be a genetic disposition to nurture but it is impossible to separate from societal expectations. I have never been naturally quiet, but I have been conditioned to acclimate to a new place in work or society before I express myself.

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Jazzy Feisty Meredith Mack female high school & college. Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. Nothing in society ever says that women SHOULD aim for less, it just outlines that women historically HAVE. But those are not the norms of this day and age. Fallacy in my logic? That is false. You just don't agree with my opinion ;)

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Jazzy Feisty Cheryl Grundy They clearly weren't afraid of a fight and didn't blame society or norms. They just got it done. No victim mentality there.

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Jazzy Feisty Erlene Grise-Owens Please clarify. No idea what you are talking abouut

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Jazzy Feisty Pamela Morrow Foley Thank you captain obvious. I am exercising mine as she is exercising hers. Doesn't make her or I right. I happen to agree to disagree with her. But thank you for trolling and not adding anything to the conversation😂 #fail

Sylvia Ann Thank you Ambre Burt. 

I think her opinion is valid because she has made significant strides in Hollywood, which is notoriously sexist. She is a quality actress in an industry where actresses are judged almost entirely on their sexual/aesthetic appeal and their ages despite their years of study and hard work in the school of acting. There are plenty of accounts of actresses young and old who have shared stories of being told by agents and directors to get a boob job, get a nose job, show more skin, and to come to auditions in their underwear. 

I'm sure many of us were fortunate enough to be encouraged to be whatever we wanted to be by our families; I know I was. That doesn't mean that sexism isn't a problem, though. As Jessica Chastain states, we are SHOWN otherwise by society. Maybe all those successful women were told they could do anything by their fathers and mothers, but be assured that once they entered the male-dominated field, they were belittled, reduced to sexual appeal, told to smile, told they were being hysterical, told they should show more cleavage, told they were bitches, told all that utter bullshit that is just a synonym for YOU CAN'T, for AIM LOW because you're a woman, and woman are seen, not heard. 

So though Jessica Chastain is indeed a successful person now, that doesn't mean she hasn't been told to aim low. That means she told all those assholes to go fuck themselves and aimed high regardless.

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Jazzy FeistySylvia Ann so exactly what makes Jessica Chastain successful in your eyes? Because I know nothing about her, can not even name a movie she is in. But since you are such a fangirl, enlighten me? And what does she do besides be an actress?

Also- please tell me about how society taught you to aim for less, because I find that to be a fallacy. It's not the case. If it is, then society also tells black people to aim for less and stay in the ghettos. Then society also tells politicians to aim for less and keep being lying cheating scum bags. Then society tells Millennials and Gen Z-ers to be fat blobs sitting in front of screens 24/7. Society trains people and tells people to do a lot of things.... society is full of victims.

Jazzy Feisty I should add that it is 100% my opinion that SOCIETAL PRESSURES are embraced by individuals so they can blame society for their shortcomings. This "successful actress" agrees but gives no other option. If she's such a role model, where is her motivation? Where is her encouragement? Where is her substance?
UPDATE! Check out this sweet response!
Rachael Rogers Once you are an adult, you can no longer blame other people for your life. Take responsibility. Once you realize that something, someone, or yourself has been holding you back, it is YOUR fault if you continue to allow yourself to be stuck there.

If you admit that you are "acclimated" to making certain choices, you are choosing to be a victim of others and your self-pity rather than actively flipping the table.
💖💙💚💛💜💓💗💙💚💜💞👍👊💪🙌That's all for now. I just wanted to point out how the liberal snowflakes get their panties all in a bunch and ALWAYS want to be the victim. ALWAYS.