On page 30 there was a statement that really bothered me.
"If a women is downsized from her role as a housewife (aka left by her husband), there is no word for being displaced homemarker. As a divorcee, she may be regarded as a family disgrace or as easy sexual prey. After, all, she had sex with one guy so why not all guys?" The part in bold bothered me the most. First off, if a divorce would happen between two people it is un-fair to put blame on the women, as divorce happens between two people, it takes to people two have a relationship and same goes for a divorce so therefore I think it is un-fair to put all the blame on the woman.
Secondly, women are often viewed as sexual prey. Woman often hear the words: 'slut', 'whore', and 'hoe', on a daily basis when in reality women aren't always the one wanting sex. Men are known to be at their sexual peaks from ages 18-24. Just because a woman looks good does not make her a whore or anything else.
Honestly this chapter pissed me off. It just totally in my opinion cut down all women. For example: how women can only be teachers and what not, oh please plenty of men are now teachers.
Also how if a boss demands sex from a woman employee then she automatically has to quit her job, that guy should be fired for demanding to have sex with her.
That is wrong on SO many levels.
First of all I don't think you should give in to peer pressure and just write about what everyone else is writing about! Other than that....I agree with you about the whole slut thing. Just because a girl is pretty and a lot of guys talk to her does not mean she is a slut. Also about the workplace sexual harassment, there is no way I would let a guy demand sex from me in order to keep my job!!! I was pretty much outraged by everything in that article.
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