Classes CONNECTED!!

So I am involved in Women's studies right now and am presently surprised by how HUST and Women's Studies are connecting with all of this talk about women. Yes, we need to talk about women more! For one thing we are an all women's college and another reason is we just don't talk about women enough. In history and psychology all I ever hear is other girls moping on about the dumbness of men and the way in which they are just so hard to understand. Well men, your time of always being the the "talked" about gender is over for this one blog at least! For Virginia Woolf made it clear that women are capable of writing and having a clear voice that one should listen too. In my women's studies class we discussed Woolf's "A Room of One's Own" as well and it struck me that this book is not Woolf ranting about the unfairness that women go against, but rather the way in which it is harder in a society dominated by men to succeed in "male" fields of employment. This type of society is a patriarchal society. A term in which a society is male identified and dominated. It does not necessarily mean that men are aware of this type of society our western world is in because if they were aware it would take more then a few men to change such a widespread mode of thinking. This made me understand Woolf's point more of having that "room" to call one's own because it is a place in which thinking freely and intelligently is accepted because no one else can judge you for that. She then explains why it is so much harder to find this room because of women's lives are not their own. They are subject to their husbands and children. Their duties lie with them. Is that not also the same case today? Are not women always supposed to be the one when the husband gets home to comfort him after his long day. In "Gender Knot" Allan G Johnson describes just that. For men are autonomous creatures that do not share feelings. Therefore it is the woman's duty to make him feel better about his day and furthermore his life before she can even think or dwell on her very tough day. This is not meant to be a male bashing session. I just found it rather interesting the connection between HUSt and Women's studies and how women's roles have not changed much in the last one hundred years. The patriarchal society in which we all live makes sure of that. But it is certainly not all men's fault for if women ever had the upper hand in anything I am very certain I would not be complaining too much either.