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I specifically enjoyed the first video with Isabel Allende: Tales of Passion. She was able to give a really good lecture on stories about different women that she had encountered throughout her life. When she started her lecture she was very humorous but while the lecture went on she told us about "Tales of Passion" that were not so humorous. It is wonderful that Isabel Allende could be so humorous to take the edge off of the stories that she was telling that were quite depressing. It was a good lecture to me because she was able to keep your attention and make good points relating to how women are treated with a slight form of humor. One main thing she touched upon was how at the winter Olympics it was going to be the first year that only women would carry the flags from different countries around the Olympic stadium. She did not mention why this was the first time only women were doing this but I was slightly shocked that women were never doing it before. Even though today we are technically considered "equal", we really aren't. Things that men do everyday are still in some cases not right for women to do as well. When is the inequality going to end? Also,  I found it especially interesting that every video we watched these women lecturers brought up how rape is so common for women to encounter at some point in their lives. It shocks me that women all over the world are being treated this way and in some way it is the women's fault that she is being raped. How is it our fault if we are dressed in a certain way, or wear to much makeup, or we drank a little too much. Does this mean that every girl that goes out in down town Fredonia deserves to get rapped because of the way they act and dress? I think not. This is a really interesting topic for me and how it relates to women who write every day. This is a problem that needs to be stopped but seems as though it never will. Why is that?