the feminist class
...ed up in tight little gowns and were just around to look pretty, we were given the impression that women throughout history were only around for that reason – to look pretty. The theory of women always having to maintain their looks, turned out to be the ideas of the English. The mannerisms of the Iroquois Indians very much caught my attention. There ways seemed to be well ahead of anybody’s. I was astonished to learn on how they included women in there councils and listened as well as respected what women had to say. They respected the choices young women wanted at a young age and didn’t try to change them into something they weren’t. Even the powers they believed women to have were amazing. Besides the obvious cultural difference the fact that the Indians believed that women upheld supernatural powers almost seemed like a form of respect. They were never seen as mere homemakers. Homemaker is now often referred to a woman who stays at home cares for the children, cooks and cleans. This seems fairly simplistic to the women of today with their microwavable meals, television for the kids and easy to use cleaning products. I had no idea what work had to go into being a homemaker during the sixteen and seventeen hundreds. The term was used because women literally made the home. Learning the everyday struggles a woman had to do just to keep up with the food, kids and cleaning was amazing. Just the preparing of the food was hard enough. I couldn’t imagine cooking everything I made from scratch. The hardships they had to go through in giving birth was a scary thought as well. Today everything is sterilized and accompanied with drugs to ease the pain. In the colonial times birth was natural no drugs just patience and tolerance. I was watching television the other day and I hate watching commercials I always change it but for one of our first assignments we were asked to watch commercials and analyze...