This week we have explored a topic that I would imagine most people don't spend a whole lot of time contemplating, and we contemplate these themes consistently in our daily lives. Parents lament their children idolizing stereotypical celebrities and images in magazines that do not represent the people that we know in our daily lives. Women find themselves subject to prejudices that have held throughout the history of mankind. And yet, women are no less able to understand what makes the men in their lives tick. I would even daresay that women look at men in much the same manner that men look at women, albeit in a much subtler manner.
With that I think that although this weeks topic focuses on women as robots, it could easily be the other way around, and we need to both be understanding of the opposite sex. Only when we attempt to open ourselves to understanding the opposite can we begin to understand the self and our roles as men and women and our relation to them in our human journey.
"In our mutual strangeness, men and women can be doorways one for another, openings into the creative mystery, that we share by virtue of our existence in the flesh."(Sanders 62)
Monday, February 22, 2010
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Week 2 Battle of the Sexes
Sorry, I knew I forgot to do something last week, won't forget again.
In this week's readings there are moments in the stories where it seems that the women have to let go of their womanhood in order to achieve freedom or their goals. These women have sought to no longer be a woman altogether, or they have been so repulsed at what their womanhood brings out in others that the only solution is to destroy the opposite sex, their other half. Or a woman may have to give up the very thing that sets women apart from men most of all, and this is the quote that I have selected for the week from Woman on the Edge of Time:
"It was part of women's long revolution. When we were breaking all the old hierarchies. Finally there was that one thing we had to give up too, the only power we ever had, in return for no more power for anyone. The original productio:the power to give birth. Cause as long as we were biologically enchained, we'd never be equal. And males never would be humanized to be loving and tender. So we all became mothers. Every child has three to break the nuclear bonding."(Piercy 97)
In this week's readings there are moments in the stories where it seems that the women have to let go of their womanhood in order to achieve freedom or their goals. These women have sought to no longer be a woman altogether, or they have been so repulsed at what their womanhood brings out in others that the only solution is to destroy the opposite sex, their other half. Or a woman may have to give up the very thing that sets women apart from men most of all, and this is the quote that I have selected for the week from Woman on the Edge of Time:
"It was part of women's long revolution. When we were breaking all the old hierarchies. Finally there was that one thing we had to give up too, the only power we ever had, in return for no more power for anyone. The original productio:the power to give birth. Cause as long as we were biologically enchained, we'd never be equal. And males never would be humanized to be loving and tender. So we all became mothers. Every child has three to break the nuclear bonding."(Piercy 97)
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