I am taking a women's culture class (I'm an archaeological anthropology student and culture courses take up a good portion of my degree classes.) We are watching a film from the 1960's called "An Essay on Women." Ironically, this "essay" is presented by a man. According to this film, women go to work in order to get away from the everyday vigors of a woman's life - that it's a mini vacation in the day. A man is uncomfortable when a woman works because she should only be giving him attention. "Working women often drop their reserve." Apparently women are a paradox and it's hard on the paradoxical but it's worse for those who live with them. He's trying to pretty much say that women are making their "place in life" seem worse than it is. That men aren't the problem to a woman's success in life, it's their expectation of being more than they should be that makes them unsatisfied with their lives. Apparently we're also mechanically inept, or it's a theory that men have that's untrue and that women just don't correct them because we want them doing things for us. "The whole thing may be a joke that women play on men."
He makes comments that contradict the things he said above so that you aren't exactly sure where he stands which is really difficult to try to figure out. So I don't know whether to hate him or agree with him. Most of what he is saying is crap though. Women have a masculine side and men have a feminine side. Women aren't good artists but men are good artists because they tap into their feminine side. WHAT?!
Thank you women's suffrage movement! Without you, I might have hurt someone by now... and I don't think I'm the only one.
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