The three readings for today discussed how the world today contributes to feminism and to the way that women have to behave in our society. Johnson discusses patriarchy and how men and women are involved in the society that we live in and how we all perpetuate this system while Gokovo talks about how men in Zimbabwe need education to know how to keep themselves and women safe. Gokovo also talks about the culture in which these men live and how that contributes to their behavior. The paper by Frye was most interesting to me because of how she used the metaphor of the birdcage. I thought this metaphor really made sense especially in how she talks about how things can pile up against someone or some group of people but depending on how you choose to look at the situation it may seem that things are not bad. After reading this I saw on CNN.com an interesting article about women who work and have children. It showed that the children whose mother’s worked more weighed more and also showed a response from a blog of a group of women who called themselves “Working Moms Against Guilt.” This seemed to fit into what Frye talked about in that these small things add up to keep women down in some cases and although this is a small thing to some minds it can also be seen as adding another reason why women should revert to the older times and they way women used to behave. I thought the blog was an interesting way for women to get together so that they could be take solace in knowing many other mothers felt the way they did and also that they were not alone in working and having a family. This blog is most likely a comfort to many women.
The link to the article is http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/02/04/children.bmi.moms/index.html
And the link to the blog is http://www.workingmomsagainstguilt.com/
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