Sunday, June 15, 2008

Sooo many choices?!

Wow, I was definitely surprised that there were so many different stand points to choose how to view your own feminist vision. Thinking about it I decided that the liberal feminist would be the one for me. Why is this? I feel that way back when the world was a much simpler place and the women had the babies and chose to take care of them while the men were obviously more fit for the go find the food and provide a shelter deal there probably wasn't too much of a ruckus over it because people were content with just that and there wasn't a whole lot more to life than providing for yourself and family. And, then one day that peaceful life style was threatened and along came war, which also was very logical to send the men to fight and the women to stay home with the children. When the war was over the men were so proud of themselves that they just went ahead and established the country and all the laws not even thinking that one day life would be different and women would even want to be part of being so actively involved with society, because to them society was very much different than today's, and at that point and time the women probably didn't think much about it because like I said they were just relieved that they could go back to their peaceful lives and not worry about losing their family. Before you know it the country had grown tremendously and prospered making taking care of the family much much easier with all the technology arriving and now women had spare time on their hands that they didn't know what to do with. In this spare time they realized that this great nation was totally being run by men who now did not want to share any of the power; and all of these laws that our forefathers had created in the past and whom had probably not put much thought into women wanting or even having the time to play a major role in society. These laws were now a major set back for women to overcome and that is when the women's rights movement began. Of course this theory is only for America, but it seems to make sense that at the time the laws were created it was a distant thought that women would even have the time or want to play a major role in politics and that doomed us in future. Also, the fact that while women were busy taking care of the family, which they probably wanted to do, there were men getting education that positioned them to make educated political decisions. So, there you have it...this is why I believe that for American women at least liberal feminism seems to make sense to me. Anyone have thoughts?

1 comment:

Alysia said...

Your presentation of U.S. history was, um, comprehensive. :) You do a good job in your retelling of highlighting the role that liberal feminism has historically played.