"Anything you can do i can do better. ."
This week we spoke about the Persians. We noticed how during that time women were not seen as equals to men just like how society is today. However, these views are different from how the Egyptians viewed their women. In the ancient Egyptian society, women were seen as being equal to men with equal roles. They also had the same rights as men. I found this to be extremely ironic! Think about societies before ours and then think about how society is today.
In the old fashioned days, women were just stay at home wives, only good enough to bare children. Now we as women are able to go out and be successful and have careers. However, in our society today men and women are still not seen as equal no matter how equal our rights are. Men still have that mentality that women are too emotional and sensitive to handle certain jobs. Even the term, "you hit like a girl!" is another way of implying women are weak. Am I the only one that thinks this is "b.s"? Women can be just as strong and assertive, even more, than men. Our roles and contributes are just as important. If the ancient Egyptians could realize this so long before our becoming, why can't our society view male and female the same?
Good connection! I always wondered why cant our society just view males and females the same. I believe that the views on women changed wayyyyy over periods of time. but i completely agree
ReplyDeleteI agree it's nice to know that there was a society where women were seen as equal. All we ever hear is how women in the past were treated less then men and our only importance was to bear children. So it was refreshing to here about the Persians.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you Deandra. It's interesting to see that women were once seen as equal which sadly it's not the case anymore in the eyes of many dominant males.
ReplyDeleteI think this brings up a really good point. Generally anything feminine is seen as weak and i think this has become how people are programmed/how we're trained. I even take part in this whole gender role thing myself - for example its really hard for me to to show my emotions not only because i don't normally do but because i feel like a "little girl" when i do. Its just the way things are ..
ReplyDeleteI also think The whole idea of gender roles are ironic in my eyes as well because i personally believe that many women are more of a man than most men. Agreed or nah?
I think all people possess qualities that are labelled as stereo-typically masculine or feminine and that it is our society that makes us feel like we have to either subscribe to one gender role or another. This also causes people to want to reject those roles by making sure to act in the completely opposite way than what is expected. What if we all just listened to our own natural instinctual reactions to life events and didn't worry about whether or not they seemed masculine or feminine?
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