After reading this week’s material, I can say that a liberated woman is being able to do anything she wants, with the person (whether of any gender) who satisfies her. Since, in the reading of Mainardi Pat “The Politics of Housework” we see how men are talked about, they do not take much importance to what housework is. They think it’s not a real job, and that it’s a “hobby” that they don’t want to go through but want their wives to do. That is why it is connected with the fact of being able to be a liberated woman, since these taboos still exist where women and only women must do certain tasks when men see it as very tedious. A liberated woman is able to do anything without it being a duty, that is, if a woman wants to do housework, let her do it, but if she doesn’t want to and wants to work or just wants to let the housework Make her partner, it’s fine too. The liberation of a woman is to be able to have the option to choose whatever she wants without waiting for another person to decide for her, it is to be able to have the right to decide her life path and what she wants to do with it.

Therefore, it is extremely important, because being able to know and see any liberated woman, choosing her own path and options, is being able to realize that genders are now treated equally and not just by stereotypes or categorizations. It is being able to create the change that all women have been waiting for a long time, without listening to criticism of any caliber. Even in Koedt Anne’s article, “The myth of the Vaginal Orgasm” we see how it is being stereotyped, saying that women are more “frigidity” and that she does not reach orgasm because of her own frigidity. We see how they are being stereotyped by the same ideology of what is correct that a normal woman should be and what is not, based on how her level of satisfaction is created by herself, when the man only focuses on his own satisfaction without caring about that of her. It is very curious to me, how even after knowing that the woman has more pleasure when she focuses on her clitoris, but even so there are cases in which the man does not care about that fact and only continues to rely on his own pleasure. It is very sad to know how women can be victims of oppression, even sexually.

This shows that “the personal is political” because as in the two articles, we saw how the stereotypes are mostly based on the fact that a man has imposed these rules for each woman. Despite the fact that it is not a state rule and completely safe, it is indirectly in this way, since if you do not follow this stereotype you will be criticized until you do what the rule imposed. Also, I can say that it is political, as I remember while studying “social studies” on the topic of world war. I remember they showed us the propaganda of that time, saying things like “if your husband goes to war, you should stay home and help him with housework to show your support”. Which gives us a clear example of how politics can also get into the personal thoughts of each gender, implementing this ideology that women should be at home.