The Final Freakin' Blog

I just want to start out by saying that I hate these blogs, and I will not miss them at all. Within the first week of every month, I find myself in a frenzy trying to find out if I can, in fact, turn in the blog "just a few days late." I do not love blogs.
But getting on to the topic, we read a lot of books this year. I think that my favorite unit was the femanist movement one. It had a lot of history involved in it, and it really made me think. I found it interesting that while we were reading all of the novels, like The Awakening and A Doll's House, a lot of the females in the class were saying that they would have stood up for themselves because that's just not what they believe in. But they wouldn't have believed in that during that time because they would have been raised in a completely different way, with a completely different culture and set of beliefs; basically, they would not be the same person. I found it incredible that the "facts" on the inferiority of women could change so quickly, and how we think that we've progressed so much, but if you look more closely you still see a lot of prejudice and old ways of thinking. Personally, I think that the feminist movement was a good thing, and I love having the freedom to do what I want and say what I feel. I think that women fighting for jobs and education was good, but on the other hand, I feel that it put a lot of stress on families. Women are now expected to have jobs, but men are expected to be the breadwinner. So now, with both parents expected to work, it's really hard for parents to raise children and still keep a good hold on finances and/or a good control over their child or children. Too many of the "old " prejudices still exist.We still have a long way to go to balance out our new ways of thinking about women with the way the rest of the country still functions.