This week’s reading was based on the stereotypes of the role women have to play during the 1960s and the myth of women’s orgasms. The reading, “The politics of the housewives” made me think differently and learn more about the inequality in the household. When Mainardi writes examples like “I don’t mind sharing the housework, but I don’t do it very well. We should each do the things we’re best at. MEANING: Unfortunately I’m no good at things like washing dishes or cooking.” It seems like men are manipulating or taking advantage of females to do household work and not help them clean around the house. Not only in households but whenever women would speak up for themselves men would find a way to say to boost their self-esteem and make women feel like they’re the bottom. It’s a terrible thing to do especially since this has been going on since the 1960s causing liberated women to fight for their rights and end sexism.

Another reading called, “The Myth of Vaginal Orgasm” explains how male partners aren’t allowing females to feel the same pleasure as men do during sex. The only thing male cares about is getting pleasure not caring or focusing on a women’s orgasm. Men don’t know the anatomy of a woman leading women to get discomfort during sex, this causes us, females, to fake an orgasm or pretends that it feels good in order to not hurt the male’s feelings and bring their pride down. This was an interesting reading to read about, what was interesting and upsetting is that Freud rule that women would be cured if they were in a mental hospital so that their natural role as women would “come back” to them and continue showing society the stereotype role of being a woman.