Gabriela Noguchi
9/8/08
journal #2

Journal #2
I think that women during this time period were not treated equally as men because of fear that they might do a better job than them. Women in these times were considered to be the weaker sex, they were frail and dainty and treated like children. They were also considered property, an idea that might have been the result of insecure, macho men trying to make them selves feel better about how they were ruling the place. A woman’s dutities during this era where to cook, clean, make their husband feel like a king, and pop out babies. Their education was restricted and a working woman was hard to come across. A daughter was raised to be a lot like a doll, she would be dressed up and played with and then basically sold to any old man who came along and had enough money to satisfy her parents…Where was the love??. I feel like men in these times only thought women were good for two things. Reproduction, and entertainment. When men got tired of them; out the window they went (or straight to the stake.) My final point, women were greatly underestimated and many of them unfortunately accepted it and took it in as a fact, because of this they thought it was only right for them to weigh on their husbands hand and foot….I hate how society makes such obvious things OK sometimes. Men during this era, I feel were at one of their many peaks of arrogance, they were into the whole “were macho men we rule conquer and eat raw steak” phase, a stage I might add that goes back to the cavemen era and that they are still struggling with today. I feel like they would have rather died than accept the idea that maybe a woman might do an equal if not better job than the opposite sex. This ties in to my feeling on Queen Elizabeth. I feel like she was one of the first, big steps for women s rights and was one of the first proofs that we are just as good as them