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Vagina Schmagina. Women Are The Real Victims Of This ‘Culture War’ is a great article detailing some of the truly appalling laws against women that various states in the United States of America have proposed this year. It details some of the bills from Oklahoma, Nebraska, and even my current home state Virginia that would reduce a woman's right to claim her body as her own and make her own decisions.
When I was hired by Fidelity Investments as a software developer, they gave me three locations I could work: Texas, North Carolina, and New England. I chose New England without even stopping to draw breath, and my parents never understood why. North Carolina is much closer to Virginia, it has similar weather, good infrastructure, cheap housing, and I would be living in the Research Triangle, an area of North Carolina comprised of three good universities and a host of high tech companies.
What I couldn't make them understand was that the Research Triangle was just that. A triangle. A bubble. A push from corporations have made states like Washington change its laws on equal marriage, so why not North Carolina? Why not Virginia with its posh and liberal-minded northern Virginia (which calls itself Nova and thinks of itself as a completely different state)? Because the people in those areas live in a bubble, very similar to the bubble college students live in. We are surrounded by institutions and people that are full of new ideas and open minds, and we begin to think that the entire state is like this, that we will have this environment wherever we go. I think a lot of that is due to high school. Many of us who feel left out or alone in high school work through it with the hope that leaving will take us to a better place. But we need to understand that laws of the state affect us too, that we aren't untouchable within the bubble.
( read more about the liberal bubble )
When I was hired by Fidelity Investments as a software developer, they gave me three locations I could work: Texas, North Carolina, and New England. I chose New England without even stopping to draw breath, and my parents never understood why. North Carolina is much closer to Virginia, it has similar weather, good infrastructure, cheap housing, and I would be living in the Research Triangle, an area of North Carolina comprised of three good universities and a host of high tech companies.
What I couldn't make them understand was that the Research Triangle was just that. A triangle. A bubble. A push from corporations have made states like Washington change its laws on equal marriage, so why not North Carolina? Why not Virginia with its posh and liberal-minded northern Virginia (which calls itself Nova and thinks of itself as a completely different state)? Because the people in those areas live in a bubble, very similar to the bubble college students live in. We are surrounded by institutions and people that are full of new ideas and open minds, and we begin to think that the entire state is like this, that we will have this environment wherever we go. I think a lot of that is due to high school. Many of us who feel left out or alone in high school work through it with the hope that leaving will take us to a better place. But we need to understand that laws of the state affect us too, that we aren't untouchable within the bubble.
( read more about the liberal bubble )
