Tell it like it is

Consciousness-raising is when you “tell it like it is”. Consciousness-raising was sparked in a New York Radical Women meeting early in 1968 when Anne Forer stated that she had only begun thinking about women as an oppressed group and that we needed to “raise our consciousness.” Anne went on to list a number of things women had to do to make themselves attractive to men, like not wearing our glasses, playing dumb, doing all kinds of painful things to our bodies, wearing uncomfortable clothing and shoes, going on diets—all because “people don’t find the real self of a woman attractive.”
The sad thing is many of us still think like this today. We have to look drop dead gorgeous or else we won’t get a males attention. Don’t you wish a guy would tell you how attractive you are when you are walking across the quad wearing your sweats with your hair up and glasses on, and you are exhausted from the night before because you have been up all night studying? Too bad that rarely happens…