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Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Katie Couric Interviews Sarah Palin (One of the best SNL skits of all time)
For the past couple of days I've been mulling over what to write on my blog. I love Greek mythology, and my favorite Goddess is Athena (sorry Ms. Whitley) so I decided to go with that. Most of you may know, I LOVE politics, that's when Athena comes in. She's the Goddess of Wisdom, she's Zeus' favorite kid, she's just as great as Apollo, and she's the head of the Virgin Goddess'. She's basically the bomb.com. However, the best quality about Athena is her favor for peace. In Ancient Greece, Athena was almost always found near the Political center of the town. It was because of the fact that she was a benevolent goddess, selfless, and for the most part always ethical. "She is the embodiment of wisdom, reason, purity".(p 30)She was all of these things, and she was a woman, but who cares because the Greeks loved her. Nowadays, and I can argue this forever, there are very few political leaders we can trust. IMAGE IS NOTHING PEOPLE, FACTS ARE EVERYTHING. When you think about women in Politics, a few names come to mind; Hilary Clinton (Secretary of State), Sonia Sotomayor (Supreme Court Justice), Angela Merkel (Chancellor of Germany), Dilma Rousseff (President of Brazil). These women are some of my favorite political leaders, but something plagues them all. Every time they are mentioned in the news the words "butch", "hard", "pusher", "nag" are used. WHY?! God forbid I call Barack Obama a pushover, or Joe Biden useless. (I have done all of these things) My point is, why do some of strongest leaders of our time, have to be downgraded simply because they are females? Why have we never had a female president? When will the time come when these women can present their strong opinions and not be called "PUSHERS"? This is not to say that the Greeks are all go feminism, Hera was constantly painted as a jealous crazy wife. BUT, the Greeks at least believed that a woman was just as capable and even better than her counterparts at making politically sound decisions. No one doubted that Athena would make the right decision, credit was given to her when due. All I ask is that you do not fall into the trap that the "news" presents to you. Even the most branded women in politics like Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin have done something, but you wouldn't know until you checked. Also here is the hilarious skit that was my blog title. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE-OCDexYrU
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I agree that women are down graded is society all the time. Why is it that women in office or high positions called names; is it because men can't handle the reality that women are just as intelligent or even more so than they are!!!!!! I also came to realize that when women in politics are strong, intelligent leaders (Margaret Thatcher), they are often thought of as "She's the man". Like seriously, "She's the WOMAN".
ReplyDeleteI'm glad that Ancient Greek did not forget to mention women in their mythology. Athena and Artemis; two women who I think are very strong and intelligent goddesses.
The irony is that Athens, which was named for Athena, was far more rigidly patriarchal than some of the other city-states in Greece.
DeleteThanks Mrs. Whitley that's an important fact to consider in this time period. It's creates a sense of irony that might have slipped past most of us if we were unaware.
DeletePREACH, and I completely see what youre saying because mostly all of the greek goddesses in greek mythology are deemed as evil, or jealous or vicious and it infuriates me. Men don't want to accept that facts say that women are just more intelligent than them so they have to bash us to make themselves feel better, I suppose.
ReplyDeleteWe can say that women are the best (which they are) and that they are underrated especially in U.S, because 51% of this country is made up of women. But when it comes down to it, names are thrown at people when something is done. Stereotypes don't form from thin air, only one person has to do or say something for it to become a generalization. If Hilary Clinton did not command authority and control Bill, who would take her seriously. Sarah Palin tried to play the feminine card in the election, but where did she end up? On a one-season wonder reality show. So even though Athena had this great resume as you listed in your blog, she most likely had to command authority like man in order for her to be respected. After all most of the creation stories we have read, men were made before women to instill the patriarchal system as the figure head of authority. By the way I loved the clip, I am a SNL addict!
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with you about the generalizations. Unfortunately, even though it's 2013, people still point fingers at all just because one made a bad choice and I feel like that needs to change already.
DeleteAnd what with Gen was saying... how come we don't have a woman running our country? I feel like the men in this country are too close minded because I've heard it so many times that women can't be president, and why? Because we're too emotional. Like are you really kidding, get a clue here people.
ReplyDeleteWho runs the household? Us.
Who takes care of the children? Us.
and if we weren't here there would be no one to take care of you so seriously the people in this country need a wake up call
Careful, ladies. If our defense is that all women are better, smarter, harder working than men, aren't we just making the same generalizations about them that we wish weren't made about us.
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