Girl Rising

We didn't do much in class on Friday except talked about the movie we watched on on Thursday. The movie was called Girl Rising. It was about girls in different countries that were beaten, forced to do hard labor, traded by their parents to new masters, raped and said they could not go to school. The girls were tired of being treated unfairly so they decided to rise up against their masters until they got what they wanted, to go to school. In class we talked about how unfair it is that girls are treated differently from boys. We are all capable of doing the exact same things. We discussed that men must have felt that they were better and more powerful than women and that they did not want to do the hard labor so they forced the women to do it for them. It is unfair but luckily things aren't the same, and in some places, aren't as bad as they were back then.