While differing behavior has always been a million shades of grey and accepted everyone being so different, why is it that our society expects gender to be so …show more content…
One portion that really stood out to me was the quote, “Raising daughter of quality became another model of production, as valuable as breeding healthy sheep, weaving study cloth, or brining in a good harvest.” It also went on to talk about the long tradition of fathers giving their daughters away as if they were property from father then to the husband (Blank, 2007). This attitude throughout thousands of years is likely what has led to today’s perception of women who have had sex are “damaged goods” (Valenti, 2009). Although in the last century laws gave women the right to stand as citizen in on their own and not as property why has this attitude …show more content…
While reading Indigenous American Woman I related a lot to the attitude of a Hopi student who neither refers to herself as a Feminist of an activity she stated, “I’m normal, I see activist as women actually doing and feminists as whiners”(Mihesuah, 2003). After this class it has really opened my eyes to the truth behind the fight, and how much change needs to be made in regards to all genders. While I will likely continue with my own personal gender performance and the role I have played for years, I will also be behind everyone else and their right to choice and equality. We as a society and world need to all be on the same playing field, equality should be expected and given in all walks of