This week’s readings “The Politics of Housework” and “The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm” allowed me to understand and reflect on how the heteropatriarchal system our society is based on oppresses women. The first reading made me aware of how women doing the house chores places them in an inferior place to men. Before this reading, I knew about gender roles but never thought about they play a huge role in the power dynamic between heterosexual couples. The fact that doing something like washing the dishes, sweeping the floor, or cooking regularly, could be a big threat to most men’s masculinity it’s even funny to me. In my opinion, doing the housework it’s the responsibility of every member of the house, if you are habiting in a house, you should do part of the housework. Men need to acknowledge this and stop being lazy because it’s not women’s responsibility to do the dirty work. This is definitely a clear example of how “the personal is political” and how these common issues between couples or families are rooted in a huge system that oppresses women. Regarding “The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm” I think that it is interesting and messed up that there are so many misconceptions about women’s sexuality and that even sex it’s shaped by the patriarchy. Honestly, I’m very confused about Freud’s theories about women’s sexuality because I feel they have no real fundament. I get that they’re based on his penis envy theory and women’s supposed inferiority to men, but it still doesn’t make sense to me. I don’t know if he took biology into account (I don’t think so) or only his theories but he should have taken biology into account to give a reasonable theory, but I guess he was mostly focused on proving women’s inferiority because they don’t have a penis. I will keep investigating bout him.