What intrigued me about this author’s piece was how they used humor throughout the work. It makes it easier to get into the piece when it is entertaining. I found her translations humorous, but they were also very informative. When I first started reading, I thought it would be easier to do the housework yourself (65-67). He will not do it right, and nothing will get done around the house. Towards the end, though, when the author explains why the small comments about the housework and the husband’s dissatisfaction with having to do it added up to him not taking women’s liberation seriously. I am glad that she stuck with splitting up the housework since they both have jobs. Doing work around the house is not women’s work. It just works around the house. In an article by Mainardi Pat, the author highlights the ways women face sexism in the workplace through “office housework.” I tend to compare the same with Koedt Anne article on The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm. These are low-value tasks, such as mentoring new colleagues and taking notes during meetings (Desire, 112). Women are more likely to be asked to do these low-value tasks but are not likely to benefit from them. If a woman in the workplace avoids these chores, she is a bad team player, increasing women’s work hours and decreasing their access to more valuable work. Women are expected to play a secretarial role in the office even though that is not a part of their job. They are asked to fetch things such as drinks and food, and they are often asked to lead committees that provide no benefits. These low-value tasks are handed off to women because it is too trivial for a man to concern himself with these small tasks.

These articles showcase how women are often expected to do low-value tasks that seem to be too trivial for men to find worth doing. The social constructs we once had where a woman would only do housework and a man would work are still around us. Even though women work now, nothing is much better because small tasks that need to be done for a system to run efficiently are seen as women’s work and not worth a man’s time (Kar, Nilamadhab, 3-8). If the job is trivial, it should be simple to have a man do the same job at various times. It is unfair to expect a woman to do all of her work in the office plus more because she is not seen as a good employee or wife if she does not do it.

In “The Politics of Housework,” Pat Mainardi distinguishes between the Liberated Woman and Women’s Liberation. She believes that the Liberated Woman is sexually active and has a job, whereas Women’s Liberation is concerned with domestic sharing. Mainardi demonstrates throughout the piece that “the personal is political,” that is, the expectation of women to perform all of the housekeeping demonstrates how our society undervalues women’s work. She spends the most of this essay debating her husband’s reluctance to share seemingly insignificant home responsibilities. Mainardi illustrates how men are entitled by a personal example. I believe that many women face similar situations and tolerate it because they are being duped. Men utilize quotes from Mainardi, such as “housework is too trivial to even discuss” or “We used to be so happy!” To make their partner believe they are supposed to perform housekeeping. Women are more likely to fall for it, perpetuating the cycle of traditional roles. Anne Koedt deconstructs the false dichotomy between vaginal and clitoral orgasms in “The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm.” She says that the vaginas are not particularly sensitive and do not permit women to orgasm, whereas the clitoris is the tissue that permits female-bodied persons to orgasm. She debunks the myth that women who cannot have vaginal orgasms are frigid, whereas the truth is that standard heterosexual sexual positions do not effectively stimulate clitoral tissue. The idea that matures female orgasms are vaginal is evidence that sex has been defined as heterosexual and as what men find delightful, rather than what women find pleasurable. Koedt urges women to redefine sexual pleasure so that it is delightful for both men and women. Koedt attributes the myth of vaginal orgasm to Freud, despite the fact that Freud did not examine female anatomy. Instead, Freud’s theory of adult vaginal orgasms was based on his assumption that women were inferior to men. Koedt then delves into the anatomy of the clitoris and vagina. She closes this post by describing why some women claim to have vaginal orgasms and why males perpetuate the vaginal orgasm myth in society.

The “Housewives Revolt” week was very important in understanding women’s oppression and the idea of the “liberated women”. Pat Mainardi’s “The Politics of Homework” (1970) was an interesting piece and made me reflect on the fixation that some men have on finding a good woman that is clean, can cook, etc. and it made me see how unequal we truly are. Even in this day and age, women do have the freedom to work and make their own money and it is more common for couples to go half and half on living expenses, but women still are attributed to do the housework and men rarely participate in these activities. It used to be that men work and bring all the money home and take care of the woman while the woman would simply take care of her husband’s needs in the home, but now both husband and wife work and after work the woman comes home and does the house work, so essentially she has more than one job while the man can kick his feet up and relax. In ” The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm” by Anne Koedt we see the same inequality between men and women as the author addresses the act of sexual intercourse as an imbalance between the pleasure of men and women. We still see women struggling with climax during intercourse because men are too selfish to focus on women’s climax and seem to regard it as of strange nature. The reading actually reminded me of a video I saw on Instagram where men were being interviewed and they were shown a picture of the anatomy of the women’s sexual reproductive organ and when they were asked where the clitoris was, they continuously answered incorrectly. I think it’s just crazy how these things are not taught to us from childhood to avoid such ignorance and to make women have as much fun during sex as men have.

After reading the content “The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm” it got to be interesting to me. Creator Koedt goes to specify women’s vagina’s aren’t touchy and can’t orgasm by the vagina and. The presumption of men accepting they have the control to donate us the fulfillment which in case is genuine but ladies can too. Delight is joy agreeing to Anne. Indeed in spite of the fact that the clitoris may be a women’s delight, in some cases we are able be cleared out unsatisfied fair for a man in which the make as in the event that they came. Where as Mainardi contends the same inside her possess article and by and by I feel that today’s society is truly all around men fulfilling themselves through sex and as ladies we are the ones to go through the results and still do to this day.

Adapting an equal rights amendment in every state would benefit the zeitgeist and political climate. With this law intact states would not get away with sexism. “proponents argue that it could strengthen the legal basis for combating violence against women, pay inequality and maternity leave.” A vast impact it would have is the issue of men voting against the rights of the female body. My theory is that while sex-ed is dismissed and mistaught, taking away that right directly affects the lower and middle-class women. Many people can not afford their livelihood, let alone that of another. Having a baby takes time and commitment. If one is not in a safe position to commit their time and efforts to their child’s upbringing, they will struggle. I believe it’s a tactic to increase the lower and middle-class numbers so that the upper class will continue to have employees to take advantage of. The cycle repeats itself, and many families find themselves stuck in what should ideally be a temporary situation—no time for themselves and their individual growth and life experience. Instead chained to work both in and outside of their homes. Abortion is more than the unrestricted right to have control of your(woman) own body. It’s also about having control of the events in your life and what you as an individual want to accomplish. This is a vital right for women to have.

After reading both text, I find it fascinating how even in our personal relationships we experience misogyny. Unfortunately, many women feel guilty or not good enough for somethings thats not true in their sex life. Although it is clear that an orgasm can only come from a clitoris, men will still choose to deny it because they only receive benefits from a vagina. “The myth of the vaginal orgasm” spreads light on what women go through and how they are left unhappy In their sex life to please a mans ego. We even turn on each other for male validation. Koedt mentions a case where a women pretended vaginal orgasm for a man to leave his first wife. Even though she wasn’t genuinely pleased, she knew it would impress him. I believe we sometimes allow men to have such a strong hold on us, and it’s not always our fault. They have programmed many of us to believe our jobs are to please them and if we don’t, we’re not good enough. Unfortunately, cases like this often happen and leave the women confused on what has to be fixed to be validated. In “The Politics of Housework”, Mainardi uses a personal example of how men are entitled. I think many women go through similar situations and accept it because they are being gaslighted. Men use quotes that were used by Mainardi, such as “housework is too trivial to even talk about” or “We used to be so happy!” To make their partner feel like they’re meant to do housework. Women tend to fall for it and continue the cycle of traditional roles.

The actual context described in the article is equally relevant even to date despite the fact that it was written so many years back and that many things have changed including some societal aspects which have been foreseen to be so different than the past years. It is evident in the current times that different households are being faced with the same problems they used to face in the past times in that they have been delegated to perform all house chores all alone without being assisted by their husbands even in matters of parenting. I have noticed several women complaining of their husbands saying that household duties are meant for women and that it is their responsibility and that they cannot by any chance carry out women roles since they have the notion that household chores are made for women and not male. Mainardi has provided so many illustrations that describe the same thing as such arguments in so many ways throughout her article. Looking deeply into Koedt’s arguments and views about sexuality is true in relating it to today’s life on the fact that men usually foresee sexual act is a way of satisfying themselves only and that women are only objects of giving them pleasure. This can be related to porn industry where a clear evidence on this illustration can be found. Men only go to look for women once they have the desire and once they are done with them that becomes the end of it all. Sex has become man centered without putting into consideration what the female gender goes through and the burden they encounter in this sexual acts. It is hard to believe how some people take the wickedness of the female gender to exploit them sexually and in other ways as in the whole article. This is equally unfair and at some point may cause a lot of frustrations to the female gender.