Editorial by Erica Hobbs

 I’m sure there are several women who feel as though they are not taken seriously. Why is this so? Well, there is this ideal that has continued to hover over women for years and years called “patriarchy.” This practice is one that affects women globally.

As the United States has been engaged in “war” with the Middle East, several stories have come out in which several male voices speak up on the different issues that happen, but the women who are involved go on silently.

Something’s missing

In one world news story, “Iran arrests Sunni rebel accused of links with the West,” by Parisa Hafezi and Hossein Jaseb, subjects of the al Qaeda and bombings were all about men.

It seems like any mention of women in the Middle East only happens when death counts are given, such as in, “Shiite family of 8 killed in Iraq, some beheaded,” by Rebecca Santana.

The women who do not speak up, such as those who perform poetry, fall between cracks to the nation’s news−watching eye. Should we really have to search and search the Internet before we can find one little clip or one story including a woman’s view and opinion? Must we rely on the words of men we do not know to give us information on the rest of the world? Let society hear from the mothers, the sisters and the wives. Let them tell their stories. These are the voices that matter and should be taken seriously.