Caitlin Lowery

“Politics themselves have transformed into a farce, perpetuated by those contributing to our current culture of misinformation. It’s undeniably wonderful to be passionate about politics, but where do we as a society draw the line?”

Amnesty, abortion, and acid. The year 2015 looks a lot like 1972.

I was raised in a world where women are over sexualized by middle school.

I was raised without a religion. My father and stepmother never really talked about God, or Jesus, or the Old Testament. They didn’t talk about Jerusalem or even Vishnu. Throughout my childhood, they mostly just stayed quiet on the subject. Raised in Georgia, though, this doesn’t mean that I was exempt from the culture that surrounds the so-called “Bible Belt”.

We’re all familiar with the stereotypes. The career woman. The housewife. Most women tend to fall in between the two, yet we still use these tired, moderately outdated ideas.