Blog Post 8

Last weeks class’s powerpoint presentation was very interesting to me. Especially the part on how the painting was disturbed and banged on from a visitor of the museum. It amazes me how one person could see such evil in a painting and go around screaming about it and then disrupt the painting physically. What was also interesting about the powerpoint was the discussion on how women can internalize their problems. It is such an amazing feat to do and yet women are expected to internalize their problems all the time. They have to internalize their feelings of not wanting to do laundry or not wanting to cook. These are not easy actions to keep bottled up inside when dealing with them on a daily basis. I don’t envy the women that lived during a time where that was what was expected of them no matter what. I love the fact that we lively in a society today, mostly, that allows us to freely choose our actions when it deals with the home life. If I choose to work and have children, then that is what I am going to do.

However, there is always the backlash of others criticizing your choices in life. Like I discussed in class, my mother will always be of the belief that women should get married and stay at home, without working, and raise their children because that is what she did. I don’t disagree with this fact but I have chosen a different path for myself, but now I have the opportunity to chose that different path, which in my mom’s generation was much more difficult to do. Overall, though out the classes I have felt a shift in my interpretation of feminism. What used to be such an ugly word to me, due to me not knowing its true meaning, has become a word of power and goodness.