The politics of housework dives into how women are forced into doing housework and Men could care less about putting in their part. duty. Pat Minardi explains how men will say anything to not share the housework, like you do it better than me or when women finally ask for help Men will say I will do on my own time. Men seem annoyed when women feel that housework should be a two-person job. Women can work a full-time job and at the same time must get home to a lengthy list of things to do while men just worry about themselves and their needs. Men tend to downplay a woman’s job especially maintaining their home.
A liberated woman knows what she wants and there are no gender roles in the household. To be a liberated woman is to know when you need help and if you want to clean your home alone then it is a choice and not an obligation. Being a liberated woman is knowing that you can to what your heart desires and chose your own path.
The Myth of the vaginal Orgasm sets another example about women and how our minds are connected to our bodies. Women must feel or be attracted to men and when they are not, they are belittled and mentally abused. The fact that men result to women being insane for not having feelings towards them is beyond me. It also explains the mis information that was spread women’s bodies and how men are not at fault when it comes to woman’s orgasm. It was Freud theory that was problematic because he believed it was up to the woman to transfer the orgasms to the center of the vagina. The vagina is actually not sensitive at all it is only the ciltoris. He lacked evidence and was never really challenged for his thoeries back then because well he is a man who knows best (sense the sarcasm). A woman’s body is very complex and orgasms come in many different forms. Men have always found an excuse to blme women in my opinion. they have never taken the time to actually know women and our bodies.
Yes, unfortunately women have frequently lacked consideration within the historically male dominated medical world. I think these issues are also tied to puritanical views of female sexuality, or the idea that it’s unbecoming or sinful for a woman to be sexual. Why explore the means to female sexual satisfaction when it’s undesirable for them to be sexual beings to begin with. Even to this day the medical establishments link to these puritanical ideas is evident in the scientific name for the vulva, the pudendum femininum, roughly translated as “the female shame part”.
I completely agree, it is very sad how some men see women as if they were their own servants, who serve only to do what they want and stay in the home. The saddest thing is that many times, many will say that this has already changed and that there are no longer people with these thoughts but I remember how my friend talked to me about how her boyfriend is and she explained how he hopes she doesn’t work , and just stay at home doing the housework and taking care of the babies. A liberated woman is, as you say, able to have the power to decide what to do with our own lives without caring what others think. The fact that a man says how a woman should be able to be satisfied in any sexual field that any man does, is incredibly discriminatory. Since, women know our own bodies, and it’s completely ironic how a man thinks he knows better. I share your same thought, the fact that a woman does not feel satisfied after having spent it with a man, does not mean that the woman has done something wrong, it means that the man did not take the time to make the woman enjoy it .
Hello Natasha,
I totally agree that on top of working women have to come home and have even more work but men only have to worry about themselves without no consideration on women because that is what society had adjusted too. I definitely think Freud gender had to do with society not questioning his theories which has caused women many unpleasant problems. I enjoy reading your post this week!
This was a good read and I agree some men are so self absorbed they think a woman should just be immediately attracted and turned on at their presence and clearly that is not true lol. It like expecting a woman to be ready for penetration when nothing has turned them on. A very all about me mindset led to a misconception of what is believed to “do it” for a woman !
Hello Natasha, thank you for sharing. I liked how you mentioned that men always found an excuse to blame women. I find this important because men don’t really take the time to know the women they are with and know about their bodies. We also see that men just treat women as objects.