Title:  Aid workers suffer mental health crisis

 

Source: CNN

 

Summary: Aid workers witness many horrific things. The are the first responders and some of the last to leave. They get kidnapped and killed. They become traumatized. Yet they do not have much support when it comes to handling the mental damage done after such events.

 

Reaction: I believe this is a big problem. How can we expect to fully help other people when we can’t even help those who have to help those in need? Aid workers are traumatized by what they see and experience- being the first there and the last to leave-yet they have no way of healing themselves. They commonly brush it off, thinking it not a serious problem, but it is. They don’t get much time off, buzzing from assignment to assignment with little-to-no break between. They commonly get stuck in other places due to the environment they are put in and people with which they are staying. They have few ways of getting help for their mental health, which is damaged because of their job in the first place. As long as these problems remain, then Aid workers are not able to fully help others.

 

Topic: Double-Standards Women Have to Deal With

Title: Be pretty, but not too pretty: Why women just can’t win

Source: The Washington post

Summary: Women can’t win in today’s society. They deal with multiple standards that they will never be able to fulfill to a ‘T’. Women have to take charge or be called docile and weak- but not too much charge because then they are bossy and pushy. Women have all these roles they are supposed to fulfill but it’s impossible for them to do so. For women, there’s no win-win or even win-those situation; there’s no in between for women.

Reaction: I agree with this article 100 percent. Women have countless standards that they have to meet but will never be able to.They have to be this, but not too much of this. They have to do this, but not too much of this.They have to think like this, act like this, talk like this, dress like this- but never too much of whatever this happens to be. And then, when women raise their voices to try and point out this problem, people hit them with the ‘why should it matter?’s. People say to just stop worrying about it- why cater to them? Their opinions don’t matter, right?- yet that’s impossible. In a world where a person is judge constantly and people rarely look very far past the surface, a woman can’t just ignore it. It’s in their faces, in their ears, in their heads constantly: “You are so ____!” “That’s not very ladylike!” “You are so bossy!” “I bet she slept with the boss to get that job!” “She’s so cold!” “She’s so emotional; I guess she’s PMS-ing.”
In a world where women are told to stand up, but not by too much, it’s hard to ignore the comments made by just about everyone.