Women in Non-Violence

Being a women people would obviously assume that I am biased when it comes to talking about the gender differences, and the ability of all genders. Well I would say this is very true, i appriciate that there are men out there, in our very class evene, that can do one hundred things better than I ever could but there are also one hundred things that I can do better than them, it depends on the person just as much as it does that persons gender. So when people say that women are to weak to lead social change movements and that they are not as likely to achieve success or support as a man is, I freak out. This is a ludacris statement and there are many movements that prove this. For example in the beginnning of the semester we discussed the Women's Right's movement and talked about how successful they were. These women invented new strategies there were never before thought of by men in order to gain the right to vote. What reminded me that I wanted to write a blog on this however was one of the groups that present in class on the first presentation day.
The Women's Liberian movement was a 14 year porcess that just eneded less than ten years ago and demonstrated the strength and mobilization power of women. They came together to tell their nation that the fighting needed to be stopped and if the men weren't going to do anything about it, they would. This only goes to further prove that women are just as power as men in leading and starting a non-violence movement. Which leads me to say, countering some of the opinions of the rest of class, that Rosa Parks could have elped lead or lead the civil rights movement. I am sure it would have taken a completely new face but I feel like as an assertative women she had great possibilities.