Women in the 21st century
Having a feminist sister—who I love—has turned me into the kind of man that is sensitive to gender issues; which, to some extent, has made me embrace some of the feminist ideologues within American writers. In particular I like Bell Hooks. She makes very good points in relation to female problems with other social issues like race and power hierarchy. Needless to say, I don’t think we have reached equality amongst men and women, but we at least to some extent had come a long way from the times when the only thing women could aspire to was complying with their corresponding social roles, from the well-educated society ladies to the highly oppressed poor housewives who were also subjugated workers.
Let’s first get perspective on how the problem started to unbridle. The road to an even society started as a movement by the well-educated society ladies who resented restrictions to their rights of doing any productive endeavors, and the way they were restrained by their somewhat ill-hearted male counterparts to be just beautiful, elegant, artistic and above all quiet. The dull existence confined to parties, music, painting, poetry, theater and opera proved to be unbearable and triggered the liberation of women. Eventually the movement progressed to become a pressure group for enabling the dirt-poor housewives out of their limited possibilities of working for the scantily paid laborious work (including maids to the fair ladies who were themselves trapped in their situation). Conversely the movement was successful on its own and we have achieved a historic point where women from all backgrounds can reach the very top of our power pyramid.
The funny part about this apparent progress is that although we have achieved a greater freedom of will, at the end of the day, we have a lot more women who no longer want to do the so-called productive work and long to have idle, beautiful, unproductive, artistic lives.
The 21st century is regretfully starting to look a lot more like a charade of the XIX century society than to the freer, richer, more diverse society which those women back then dreamt for the future generations. Even though now women have the possibility to do anything—and no doubt about it, they successfully do—when they are presented with the correct scenario they will tend to be more like the XIX century society women than to the XXI century modern woman so well in charge of herself.
Women are growing in all kinds of positions, working hard, getting a hard earned pay at their businesses; they have taken control of their own lives, but the fact stays that women are increasingly craving for the very kind of life, which incidentally led to the decision of rebellion against the patriarchal society’s institutions.
Maybe is genetic and has to do with their corpus callosum making them liable to a better inter-hemisphere thinking, thus rendering them creative. However, what is certain is that they consistently love the bohemian lifestyle, joining causes like saving the koalas or the dolphins, painting, acting, singing, and poetry reading and writing; for some reason all these seem intrinsically appealing, almost hypnotically-alluring, to women.
This proclivity makes them go even for the hands-down-extravagant, esoteric, numbercounting, starreaching, soulsearching, spiritviewing, energymoving, halocreating, chakrahealing activities of which they are awfully proud of, along with the unexplainable luminance that led them there. They belief with such profoundness attached, that it should actually makes us wonder and ponder carefully whether we are being left out of a profounder understanding of the universe or if we had failed as a civilization to give our girls a true sense of confidence on what they can accomplish on their own (and the transcendental value this has for society), with a more tangible set of skills.
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