The reading “politics of housework” by pat Mainardi, points out how housework was seen by feminism as a theoretical problem. Women throughout the world performed many more hours of housework than men do. Mainardi shows that women and men have been brainwashed to believe that housework is women’s work. The other reading “The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm” by Anne Koedt, defines frigity by men as the failure of women to have vaginal orgasms. Women who complained about this problem were diagnosed as failing to adjust their role as a woman.

Liberated women might be important for women’s liberation because women who are liberated have exercised freedoms that focused more on their individual wants and needs other than on the group mentality that defined the women’s liberation. According to the text it says, “Women’s liberation isn’t really a political movement.” Meaning: The revolution is coming too close to home. Also Meaning: I am only interested in how I am oppressed, not how I oppress others. Therefore the war, the draft, and the university are political. Women’s liberation is not”(pg3). From my own understanding, a liberation woman is to be a feminist who pushes for more equality for women. A liberated woman who has freed herself of the structures and labels that society has placed upon women. Then we have women liberated who have a lot of sex and that fits in the household chores. 

These two readings show that “the personal is political” because “The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm” shows how personal the female orgasm is and how personal circumstances of housework in the other reading relate to this societal issue. It shows that some women who aren’t sexually attractive to men end up getting mentally abused or being called all types of names just so that they can be sexually attractive to men.