Once upon a time, and sometimes still today, men kept women holed up in the home doing all of the "female" chores "they were born to do".
Loving, honoring, obeying their husbands, whilst raising the children and educating them along with the daily household chores of cleaning, laundry, dishes, cooking, etc.
Then came the Feminist Movement, led by profound women such as Lucretia Mott and Lucy Stone, and a wave of demands for equal rights for women in society.
Men! Was it so horrible to work alongside a woman?
Men! Do the women who raise your children and run the household mean so little to you?
Men! Why do you think you are here? Your father did not birth you.
Men! Is a trophy all you really want? A woman to stand by you, no matter what you do, and look pretty with no brain or mind to speak of?
Men! Do you really think you own and run the world?
It is women who keep this world on its orbit.
It is women who keep the human, animal, amphibian, reptilian, and whatever else population going.
Women like Daisy are a disgrace among disgraces.
Weak women only add to the fact that females are referred to as the weaker sex or as the second sex.
I am here to prove that wrong along with all of the other women before me who proved that a woman can be just as successful as a man at his best!
Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Lucretia Mott, Hilary Clinton, Eleanor Roosevelt, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Queen Elizabeth I, Emily Dickinson, Catherine The Great, Joan Of Arc, Anne Frank, Cleopatra, Marilyn Monroe, Lucille Ball, Oprah Winfrey just to name a few.
As a female in an extremely patriarchal society, I feel that the fight from so long ago is not yet done.
Females and males are not yet equal.
A male C.E.O makes more money than a female C.E.O.
And why would that be? One is more intellectually competent? One works harder? Or is it that one was born to supposedly "lead the country" while the other trails behind picking up his trash and dirty socks?
I refuse to give up the fight for women until true equality is reached.
America is supposed to be the "land of opportunity", right?
Where is the woman's opportunity?
Was it left behind with the immigrant opportunity? Was it left behind with the slaves' opportunities?
Ladies, fight the system.
Fling the mold of the "ideal" woman out the window.
The "ideal" woman is subordinate, obedient, weak, pretty, and dumb, dumb, dumb!
We were all given brains, not jut men.
We are just as capable as a man is in any situation.
This is proven with female boxers, wrestlers, lawyers, C.E.O's, dentists, doctors, teachers, and governors.
I say to hell with Daisy and Fitzgerald!
In my opinion the world and that book could use a few more women like Jordan Baker.
[Who else noticed he gave her a unisex name because she's "manly".]
Call me a feminist, if you will. I will accept the name with pride as a woman of yesterday, today, and tomorrow!
Always the Lady, Shanita. :)
Oh! Bravo, Shanita, Bravo! (Ha! Oprah, YES OPRAH)
ReplyDeleteAnyways, I love the power in this. I can totally see you fist pumping while shouting this to a group of your fellow females. I agree with you all the way. Women should be more outspoken! But, some women speak out in such a way that makes them annoying. If women should speak out, they should speak out with just as much consideration and just as much respect as anyone else would. We need POWERFUL women. Of course, the women mind itself is powerful if you know how to use it. So, let it be heard Shanita! Yes, let it be heard.
Shanita, you are so correct. Women are not inferior to men,women like Daisy are what catagorize us a weak.We are strong, strong enough for child birth so we are strong enough to do anything. Men wouldn't survive without women. We are the glue to society, and this power struggle is ridiculous. What makes us the weaker sex, don't we work just as hard as a man, if not harder, and don't we think just like a man, and speak like them too. We are equal to them, and deserve the same rights. Feminist fought for our rights today, but we still have to fight to ensure that equality will override sexism.
ReplyDeleteWow. You couldn't have said it better. Women are the whole package. We are capable of running a buisness and strong enough to bring MEN into the world. Daisy is the ideal woman for men like Tom. Too bad for Tom: Yes, we are beautiful..but fools..not so much!
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ReplyDeleteAwesome! I absolutely love your post. Without women there's really not a world. God made Eve for a specific purpose, he made a woman be able to do (major) things in life that men cannot. Us women don't get the credit that is truly do to us. So until then I agree we have to fight to get what's ours.
ReplyDeleteI disagree with you, Shanita. There are lots of women in high positions in society. Some men do still look down on women, but I am not one of them, and I think that women are doing just fine in today's world.
ReplyDeleteOnly a man would think women have the same rights as men do in this society. O Humanity!
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