Reflection 8

In “The Politics of Housework,” we can see how 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. this piece has some much relative information which I loved and agree. Many mans feel less or embarrassed to do house chore as it is a women thing or when they do it they get tired leave it for another day or simply stop doing it as they do not live in the house and has the same responsibilities the women does. I feel like this happen often and more in this era. In this article the author compared the house work women do to how mans react to it or do the house work. When mans have to face the reality that the house chores is a responsibility of two many things change.

After reading the text “The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm” it became interesting to me. Author Koedt goes to mention women’s vagina’s aren’t sensitive and can’t orgasm by the vagina and the assumption of men believing they have the power to give us the satisfaction which in case is true but women can also. Pleasure is pleasure according to Anne. Even though the clitoris is a women’s pleasure, sometimes we can be left unsatisfied just for a man in which the make as if they came. Man sometimes doesn’t realize that pleasure goes beyond touching they think more on themselves.

After reading the text “The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm” it became interesting to me. Author Koedt goes to mention women’s vagina’s aren’t sensitive and can’t orgasm by the vagina and. The assumption of men believing they have the power to give us the satisfaction which in case is true but women can also. Pleasure is pleasure according to Anne. Even though the clitoris is a women’s pleasure, sometimes we can be left unsatisfied just for a man in which the make as if they came. Where as Mainardi argues the same within her own article and personally I feel that today’s society is really all about men satisfying themselves through sex and as women we are the ones to go through the consequences and still do to this day.

Those who do not study history will be destined to repeat it. To achieve equality today, we must first comprehend the past. Rewriting and recalling history has always been fundamental to the aim of equality, according to feminist analysis. We’ve learned so much over the last few weeks that I believed I understood what it meant to be a feminist or, at the very least, the struggles people endure simply for being themselves. I was proven incorrect; there is so much more for me to learn. This week I had the privilege to read  “‘What’s in a Name?’ On Writing the History of Feminism” by  Claire Goldberg Moses. Moses examines the origins, extent, advantages, and limitations of the umbrella word feminist. Moses argues that the term feminist is neither a fixed or unchanging concept. Feminism does not have a single definition. Moses presents a brief history of women who used the term feminist to denote collective activity. She brings the subject of women claiming the title of feminist up to date by writing on the limiting of the term feminist since the 1990s. It is critical to understand the history of women’s inequality. How can we improve if we don’t know what has to be changed? We should not be scared of change. People are constantly improving, so why shouldn’t society?