3 essays response

I think that the three essays are about how different women, from different cultures are treated in society. The first essay was about a woman telling the story of when she was a little girl, watching her older sister be treated unfairly by their father. The author of this essay explains the restraints that her father put on her older sister. She said she started out with feelings of disgust for her father, but after she went to school and studied history of women, she realized that her father’s reaction towards her sister was the same way any other father would’ve reacted towards a growing girl. In the second essay the author is talking about how she was the only daughter, with six brothers, and how her father acted with her. She said that she really wouldn’t get to do much outside because her father didn’t let her have much freedom with society, and she said she had to spend most of her time in her room by herself, but that’s something that helped her writing be as good as it is. The last essay was about a woman that lived, or at least walked by southwest Detroit. She talks about a time when she hit her head against a stop sign, and she ended up getting a black eye, or what she calls “a shiner.” The author said that most of her friends, male and female, were feminists. She explained the reaction that her friends had when she explained how she got a black eye. The author said, every time she would explain what happened, her friends would sarcastically say “sure,” meaning that they thought her husband/boyfriend had beaten her. At the end of the essay, she says that she eventually distanced herself from her friends, and kept to herself, which I find quite sad. My response to the last essay is disappointment. As a male, I think that most people think sexism is a one-way street but it’s not. For example, just because the author got a black eye, and she has a boyfriend, doesn’t automatically mean that her boyfriend is abusive.