feminine revolution

I believe that with more knowledge in the matter of woman's rights, we have faced a revolution that is just as important as the French, industrial, ex.. "whatever is right for a man is right for a woman" (522). Women have tradition, yes, but that tradition is now changing. And we all have to be accepting of the change and realize that tradition is not for everyone, and lose who want to break tradition and make something for themselves should not be seen as a threat to the world, but as an aspect of pride and movement.  They understand they are not treated equally, and it takes smart women to stand up to the men of that time and era. The feminist thinking transformed "the way in which men and women work, play, think, dress, worship, vote, reproduce, make love, and make war"(520).  Being born after the women's movements, this has always been something I grew up having, women's freedom and rights.  I could not imagine what women in that time went through just to get an ounce of respect, and even if they got the time to voice their concerns, was that ever respected? How long did it take for them to actually feel equal? I know that this is still an issue today, women competing with men for the same position in work field, however it can go to a man who has a GED when a woman who has spent thousands on a good education gets passed up. What is it about tradition that makes women seem incapable of equal rights? What if there were a man who wanted to be the stay at home father, and not have to worry about the competitions of work, would society give him a bad name? Most likely not. Could it be because men were born with the rights to do whatever they please, and women had to fight for those rights, and even then, they still aren't respected to the utmost in parts of society and the world. Let's take a look at another type of inequality that has just made history.
          We see a pattern in mass movements, the fight for equality, and seeing this today we could see the mass movement of equality in marriage as a new age revolution.  People could argue that this is not equal to that of the woman's movement, but it is a movement and it is revolutionary. Same Sex marriage doesn't harm anyone, it doesn't interupt your work day. Revolutionary is marking the radially new change in society, and that is of the lifting of DOMA and Prop 8. It is lifting the band on "marriage" and making it equal for all sexual orientations. I don't see a definition to marriage, its another form of commitment, it maybe traditional views for some and others see no equality in holding out this union. With the notion of rights for woman, we fought very hard to get that same respect and freedom. Now we see in our age, the fight for the same rights of marriage. Just like womans movement, it took a long time, and this lifting and recognition has also taken a long time, but like I mention with men not understanding the freedom for women because they were esentially born free, maybe this could be said for the movement of marriage. That because we inevitably marry our hetero partner that it never occured for the homo equality in marriage? I don't know, but it is great to witness this new age revolution first hand and understand the unjust.
     

part 3 reflections

As I look back on some of our class discussions, I get a better grasp on it as I read through this weeks assigned chapters.

When we had the class debate regarding the Paleolithic and if we are inevitable to subjugation, a part in the book actually referenced the persistence of that lifestyle. With changes over time and advances areas are still hostes to gathering and hunting societies, falling into the category. Evolution, slow at that, was still present in the fifteenth century of this lifestyle. So back to that agrument made in class, some areas will subjugate and some will remain set in their Paleolithic ways. But it entire is not inevitable. This ancient way of life still had presences and continued well into the eighteenth century in Europe. This was one area in our reading where I really reflected and felt a sense of "ah-ha" when I read it. I was on the side that argued it was not inevitable and seems like we had some strong points, but now even more evidential in more recent centuries and not just in Paleolithic era. It was a way of life that had carried and really been valued.