The reading from this week was very interesting for me. I was confused at first when I read the first reading which was “The Politics of Housework” by Pat Mainardi. The article mostly talked about societal gender standards/roles that men and women are forced to do. In the article, women are expected to always do the housework and avoid asking for help from a man. Whereas men are not expected to be helping around the house except for when it comes to carpentry. I think the article really explains how men react to doing household chores and their excuses. A lot of men find the work to be tedious when done constantly and oftentimes they are not willing to help their wives. 

The article also explores the topic of how men can’t survive without women since women do most of the work within the house. A lot of males are raised to think that females are supposed to do housework. This is all based on patriarchy. 

The second article that I read was a little interesting. It gave me a huge amount of information about female sexual anatomy. I find that it was interesting to know that a lot of women back then were forced to see a mental health professional because they had problems in bed. I thought this was ridiculous that they had to go through all this. If they had any sort of problem they were thought I was mentally mad or something. I learned that a lot of women don’t really know how to achieve orgasm during sexual intercourse. This is because a lot of men don’t know how the female anatomy works and thus they recreate a lot of myths about how the female body works. Sex is all based on satisfying the male partner. Women aren’t satisfied by their male counterparts A lot of men don’t know how the female anatomy works and thus they create a lot of myths about how the female body works.