This week’s reading felt affirming. Connecting the fact that women are oppressed even in the home and men take part in that oppression when they assume women are going to take care of the house work was super affirming for me because i don’t ever think i’ve heard men acknowledge how they take part in our oppression it’s usually phrases like “not all men” in even the most violent of experiences that something as simple as housework almost seems trivial like it was said in the article. I often find myself explaining to men why is isnt ok to invade a woman’s space or to take up space themselves in a way that does not allow women to be heard. To me it’s obvious and to them they think we benefit from some sort of privilege yet almost every other day i see on the news women suffering at the hands of a person they turned down or broke up with. It is super wild to me how men can deflect and dismiss and devalue women’s experiences and makes it difficult to be able to communicate with most men i’ve met. The readings always grant me an emotional response about the way i have to move in the world to be heard and how i can imagine other women have to behave to be considered human and worthy of “protection” it arms my mind with information to offer up when in conversations with peers and colleagues in terms of where we are in feminism and our successes in certain areas.