How To Get Away With Murder

Hey everyone, I am so freaking excited to share my new obsession! It is a series called How To Get Away With Murder. If you have never heard of it before let me explain what it is about (it is truly amazing OH EM EFFING GEEEEE).

I will not do any spoilers so you can have the most amazing time watching it yourself but it is mainly about 4 law students and a criminal defense professor, however, everyone else in the series are very important and just as interesting and intriguing as well. So this series gets quite intense and extremely intriguing and mind blowing, it will always show something completely unexpected, which will make you want to find out how and why the hell did all of that happen and you're most likely going to binge watch a season and a half within a week (that's what happened to me). 

If you were wondering whether the title actually relates to the series let me tell you something. OH GOD YES IT DOES. There is quite a bit of murder and investigations happening, however interestingly enough, the main characters are actually involved with a murder (or maybe murders) that affects their personal lives. What I also like about the series is that it involves humour in between very intense scenes and on top of that, it has some powerful moments that I have never seen before in any other series which is what makes How To Get Away With Murder special. I can't stress enough how great the writer (Peter Nowalk) and actors have done so far, The show wouldn't be the same without their amazing and hard work. 

Laurel Castillo (Karla Souza)

Professor Annalise Keating (Viola Davis)

Connor Walsh (Jack Falahee)

Asher Millstone (Matt McGorry)

Bonnie Winterbottom (Liza Weil)

Michaela Pratt (Aja Naomi King)

Frank Delfino (Charlie Weber)

Rebecca Sutter (Katie Findlay)

Nate Leahy (Billy Brown)

As you have probably gathered this is who the main characters are, they are VERY different and unique in their own way, which I find such a perfect selection of characters, I definitely recommend this series as it isn't intriguing only crime wise, but also in many many other ways that will leave you truly speechless! 

Wes Gibbins (Alfred Enoch)

'Transgender women aren't women'

So, I am sure most of you have heard of this Australian academic Germaine Greer. She is known for her controversial expression about transgender women. "I think people should be allowed to have the male to female procedure... all I'm saying is that it doesn't make them a woman," she said in an interview with BBC Newsnight. 

I've gathered a few statements that she has told the public before I express my own opinion.

• Germaine Greer  doesn't personally think she's transphobic. 
• She said she would be prepared to use female pronouns for transgender women if it was their preference, only 'as a courtesy'. 
• She has suggested transgender women could never be women because they did not know what it was like to have a 'big, hairy, smelly vagina'. 
• She has said that transgender women were like ghastly parodies and were simply 'a man's delusion'.
•  Transgender women were not women because they did not 'look like, sound like or behave like' real women.

First of all, her definition of being a woman is quite crazy. Although in this day and age, there is nothing shocking about what she said 'transgender women don't know what it's like to have a 'big, hairy, smelly vagina', it is shocking how an academic would be so unprofessional to define this as being a woman.  To me, this lecturer sounds confused, intolerant and so unprofessional. 

The next factor I want to talk about is her outlook on being a transgender and being a woman. She seems to look at only biological factors of being a woman and being transgender. However, biology is just a part of who and what we are. She completely ignores psychological and sociological factors that have an incredible amount of affect on our lives and the way we are and will be in the future.

Based on these statements, it is obvious she doesn't care one bit that she might be offending someone as she believes it's her freedom of speech to say whatever she wants to say. Personally, I agree with her in terms of having the right to say what she wants, because everyone can express themselves and share their opinion with others. However, I also believe that everyone has the right to agree or disagree about something. In this case, it is obvious a lot of people disagree with her and have even made a petition calling on Cardiff University to dump Greer’s lecture scheduled for November 18, titled ‘Women & Power: The Lessons of the 20th Century’ and over 2200 people have signed it. 

At the end of the day, no one should ever forget that as long as you are not hurting anyone, we can do what makes us happy as we all have the right to be happy human beings, and no one should be dealing with discrimination, labeling or bullying. And to end this on a good note, I would just like to say that my message to everyone is to be positive, tolerant towards each other and don't let all the negativity get to you or affect you in any shape or form. Because we are awesomeeeeeee. 

My first post! A little about me

I know, I should probably be doing my uni coursework right now, but guess what! I would rather start a blog. LOL

I am not too sure how this works and if anyone is going to see this, but if not this could be my little online diary about random stuff. Why not give it a shot?

So, I am Lithuanian, which is why the ‘j’ in my name (Emilija) is silent and I am 19 years old. I live in the UK and I’m a university student, doing my second year.
Throughout my life I’ve attended dance, music and art schools, which without a doubt has taught me a lot (like how to play the piano and participate in things I don’t particularly love for half of my life). 
You might wonder what I actually like? Well, apart from petting cats and dogs, doing make up, taking selfies, connecting with people and finally clicking the ‘submit assignments’ button on my uni website, I am yet to find out what I want to do in life.

That's Mollie, I was looking after her this summer. 

In terms of this blog, it will not be just about me as I will be talking about a lot of different topics that intrigue me and interest me, and hopefully I can connect with some of you. 
This is already getting way too long and I need to get back to my assignments, so I’ll see what I’m going to post next! I’m completely open to suggestions and advice. 
Until next time! ~Emilija (with the silent j LOL)