My ideal version of feminism in the 21st century
would be to have women looked at as equal as men for the majority of things,
yet stay a woman. I think that now a day’s
many women are starting to stray away from the previously known role of a
woman, wanting for example: better jobs
or more rights or more freedom. They are
straying away from the motherly role they were “built” to lead. The more equal a woman becomes to a man the
less “motherly” they are. I agree that a woman should be able to do whatever
job they want to do and that they should be able to believe and stand up for
whatever they want to but they should not be looked at as equal to a man in
every aspect. A woman cannot protect a
family as much as a man can, a woman cannot make the same amount of money as
man can (Jonathon stated today that even if a man and a woman are doing the
same job the man will make more money doing it) a woman cannot be taken as
serious as a man can be taken. There are
many things that a woman cannot do that a man has no problem doing so why in
the world would we treat them equal. Yes
a woman should work and help provide for her family but a woman’s role in
providing for the family is to stay home and care for the children, that not
meaning that she needs to be at home while the kids are away for example at
school or whatnot but say she gets them up and ready for school and drops them
off on her way to go to a job in which she will get off of in time to pick the
kids up from school. A woman needs to be
able to interact with society and adults but her main “job”; role in life is to
be a mother. So I guess I’m trying to
say an ideal version of a woman for me in the 21st century is one
who provides for her family, is classy, nurturing, yet educated and successful.
Gender equality, family, and status should be the most
important thing in the next century.
Everyone is worried about working so hard and making all this
money. Just as Lisa stated earlier
today, “why do we work so hard to be so busy?”
She asked a great question because if you’re striving to have the best
job and tons of money by working 100
hours a week then how in the hell are you going to be able to enjoy what you
have earned. Why work tremendous amounts
of hours to be able to put your kids through sports or activities yet you’re
not even there to watch them play. Some
people are to the point that they have to hire a driver to take their kids to their
sport games or whatever. Seriously what is the point of that? Your kid is going to be spending all this
time practicing to play this last championship game that you won’t ever be able
to make it to cuz your working and then he is going to end up hating the sport
probably because it will always remind him of how you weren't there. Now I know that is extreme but I think it’s
true. People to take a step back and
realize that life is not all about work and having the nicest things or the
most things, it’s about making the most about what you have and enjoying
life. People need to not focus all their
energy on work and “things” but focus more on family.
