The readings this week put an emphasis on how some of the personal problems we have in our households are actually rooted to the political problems we have in our society. In the first reading “The politics of Housework” by Pat Mainardi the writer explains to us the difference between a liberated woman and womens liberation. Explaining to us a liberated woman more-so walks to the beat of her own drum and while there are men who prefer an independent woman who does not play into the old school wife roll they have a hard time splitting and sharing household duties even when they claim to be willing. Men are so conditioned to letting women handle housework it seems like a dreadful minuscule task to a man. Whereas they are more willing to do what they feel is masculine work. It leads to men becoming defensive and finding ways to not split the household duties using excuses for it to all fall back on the woman in the end giving validation to the claim personal is political.

            In the second reading “The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm” by Anne Koedt the author is explaining how the hierarchy of society (men) not understanding the way simulation and orgasms work for the woman’s vagina has caused a misdiagnosis of some women when ordinary intercourse is only geared toward what makes a man feel good. In-fact man of what we call ordinary positions are relatively geared only to a man’s satisfaction. The author believes the facts need to be approached differently and looked at from a woman’s point of view instead of a man’s so there is more clarity on what actually stimulates a woman.

    The hierarchy has dictated much of what a woman’s role should be and making sure a man is satisfied after working and being the bread winner while there has been progression in equality of sexes many of the embedded old expectations and knowledge still linger in our personal lives making personal situations also political ones.