Jade Pimentel Reflection 8

When reading both of these texts I learned a lot about the liberated woman and the Women’s Liberation Movement. Even though I am a Hispanic woman in the United States, I never really learned or was interest in the idea of feminism growing up. I believe it was because most so called “feminists” had tainted the actual movement of Feminism and what these women were actually fighting for. They weren’t fighting to hate men, they were fighting to be respected and seen as equal to men. Which is what I learned a lot while being in this class. I found it interesting how Pat Mainardi’s essay “The Politics of Housework”, dissected the actual meaning behind what men say when you ask them to do something traditionally supposed to be done by women. Most times those men are insulted because they think “why would I stoop so low?”. In Anne Koedt’s “The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm”, I noticed that most women when having sex with men, don’t reach the potential they should. Majority of the women fake an orgasm to not hurt the man’s ego, since most are so fragile and sensitive. “Once having laid down the law about the nature of our sexuality, Freud not so strangely discovered a tremendous problem of frigidity in women” (Koedt). Freud was one of the men who were quick to make bad assumptions on women. Women go through hormonal imbalances quite frequently considering our menstruation cycle. But once a woman doesn’t react the way a man wants her to, she’s crazy, or needs to be hospitalized. Which is ridiculous.

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