Update For Blog Set #8

I think that when we discussed this in class with other peoples views, it opened my mind just a bit which I like. Having great discussion on the stories also helped me see things a lot better. I remind myself that my opinion isn't the ONLY opinion. Even though some people thought a certain way that I didn't think of, it was interesting to see their side and their version and also how they came about with their opinion. But for the most part we all agreed on the base and foundation of the story. "Day Million" was one where it was, to me, revolutionary in the sense that a story like that was written in the time that it was written in. We all agreed in the class discussion that this type of writing was beyond its time. We also agreed that it sort of, in a way predicted the future. As we started to discuss "When It Changed" we all overwhelmingly agreed that this story was also written ahead of its time. Joanna Russ writes a story with a basic message: female empowerment. We all agreed that the men were not necessary in the story which I thought was pretty funny for some guys to admit in the discussion. But in this story it's true, men aren't in anyway needed. Women on that planet where capable of doing anything and everything. I feel like if a woman where to read that story back in the 70's when it was published, she might or might not look at the world differently (hopefully she did) because it is all about female power. The 70's (as we discussed in class) where a changing time for women, a start to a movement of power to the females in the world. We aren't quite finished yet but the 70's were deffinitely where it all began.