The first reading “The Politics of Housework” by Pat Mainardi really resonated with me because I related to it ALOT. When the author wrote ‘MEANING’ and explained the explanation was actual things I heard from my step dad. When my step dad was in our life he was very adamant about traditntal roles and how each role is made for a reason and how men and women should stick to them. This would infuriate me all the time. He would constantly say how he works and shouldn’t be doing housework responsibilities because it was a women’s job. When my mom. would ask for his help because she was tired of cooking , and cleaning and running errands he would flip and create this entire argument saying how if thats how she feels that he can easily leave her and find someone who can do everything he’s asking for without complaining. Glad to say my mom left. The second reading “The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm” written by Anne Koedt also resonated with me because it reminded me of a friend of mine who vented to a group of friends about how she felt about her sex life and how her husband didn’t care about her needs. Anytime she would vent to him about it he would just tell her “because you don’t concentrate on reaching your climax” . Honestly these two reading resonated with me because I do agree men are programmed and conditioned to think a certain way. All around us we have influences like our own family and household growing up to even media saying how things should and shouldn’t be by people we idolized.