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)