Blog 4

Last weekend West Lafayette, Indiana had a festival called The Feast of the Hunter's Moon. It is a festival that has many booths and the people who work there dress in many different time period outfits. There are people who dress up to represent the Scottish, French, upper class, working class, peasants, soldiers, Indians, and many more. Besides this being a fun festival to attend to you also get to learn a lot from certain time periods and how the people really lived back then. Besides the booths selling homemade crafts and food there are also activity fields where they perform old time dances or games. When my husband and I were passing by one of this activity fields I heard the announcer state that they needed participants from the audience to play a game that many children and adults played back then. The one thing that caught me off guard was that the announcer also stated that they wanted only male participants - specifically stating that no women were allowed to join this particular game. I was caught off guard by hearing that and was almost a bit irritated that the announcer would say that. But then I got to thinking that the announcer was just trying to show the audience how it really was back then in that time period. Women were excluded from a lot of activities just because of their sex. With knowing that women had it so much harder back then in feeling appreciated and even accepted I thanked God that I was born in this day and age. I appreciate all the women who have struggled to give women rights and to fight to have us "join the game with the men".