I have rights as a woman. I can write a speech and deliver it to my peers. I have the right to assemble and let others know my feelings about topics that are near and dear to me. These rights that I have were fought for by people who came before me who could not do these things freely. Who do I thank for my freedoms to express myself rhetorically? Do I thank those women who stood on the steps giving their speeches while being shouted at and threatened? Do I thank those women who were injured, spat on, and humiliated in the past for freedoms I enjoy today? Thinking about it I even question how often I even ponder who or why or when to thank anyone for what I take for granted today as my rights as a woman. Recently I mailed my ballot for the elections that ended last week. It did not cross my mind once however that without the fight from women in the late 1800’s I might not have been able to fill in those ovals and vote myself. In the third feminist movement today we are seeing an almost reversal of the movement in the 1970’s. Women aren’t as forward with their extreme independent feminist ways as they were 30 years ago. Is this just because women do not have respect for what women have done in the past, or have our societal norms and values changed? How will this recent feminist movement change the way women are respected and represented as a part of our society? It will be interesting as a woman to see how my own viewpoints change of my gender and how the ideas of society come to change as well.