Merichel Almonte, Discussion 9

I really liked the readings this week I learned new things. As for the concept of a liberated woman, for me she is a very empowered woman, who knows what she wants, likes her freedom without limits, who has her own reasons and knows that she is more than any stereotype created in society because she knows and knows her body does not let anything limit it. However in “The Politics of Housework” she argues “The liberated woman has a lot of sex and has a career, preferably something that can fit in with housework, like dancing, pottery or painting”. This shows that they have a very different idea because It is mentioned that a liberated woman is one who has a career, a very active sexual life, putting women in the sense that this would be bad, they all have the right, just as men do all that women can because both genders have to have the same value.
A liberated woman brings many good things to society, for example, a liberated woman transmits that security to other women, further empowering feminism.

On the other hand, in the article “The Politics of Housework” it is argued “the reason why many parents would prefer to be the ‘fixer’ of the house than to wash the dishes”. In this quote it is observed how it does not only happen in a family but in millions, since the child begins to grow up he is told that “When your wife cooks for you” it is never mentioned “when you cook with your wife or help her to to cook”. It is always about the woman being the one who has to do all that when she is not like that and many men even seeing that the woman is taking care of the children she can see dirty dishes and still she does not do it.
About “The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm” it is observed “the personal is political” shows how many men are unaware of the subject as a woman feels and when she reaches orgasm this is because the man mostly only focuses on himself

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