Blog 5

My playlist is at the bottom of this page. I couldn't figure out how to post it anywhere else. Sorry.
Well, the reason I chose the songs I chose were obviously because of the words they sang. I chose a lot of songs that showed how men should treat women and I also chose a lot of songs that showed women could be independent. There were also some songs that degraded women and even men. The point I wanted to make with the songs I chose was that people choose how they view men and women. Some men think women are just objects to satisfy them, and others think they are prized possessions. Some women view men as obsessive jerks, and others choose to love them for who they are. A lot of it has to do with things we experience. There are always going to be jerks and bitches. There are always going to be the good guys and the good girls too. We as humans are given the choice to chose who and what we want to be. We can choose to respect each other or choose not to. The songs people write are a reflection of who they are. It ultimatly reflects what they think of the opposite sex and more importantly of life.

In the book FIFE, it finally occured to me why feminism wasn't a huge deal to my grandmother. It chapter 7 Hooks talks about how the feminists were mostly upper class white women and they were housewives. Yet the lower and middle class women were not kept at home, they were out working hard to survive. The reason the upper class women weren't working is because the only jobs they would be allowed to do were the low wage "dirty" jobs. Those women were obove that and they wanted to be offered the same opportunities to work the jobs that the men worked. Like my grandmother, most hard working lower and middle class women would have thought that being a house wife would be a "freedom". The lower class women also knew that the jobs they were doing wouldn't be enough to bring them out of their status. There are so many ways to look at feminism and its movement. I do think that it has made a positive impact on all women no matter what social class they are in.