Eternal Feminism

During my time reading the Eternal Feminism by Castellanos I noticed a few scenes the portrayed gender in a very significant way. The honeymoon scene stood out to me as the most epic scene that described feminism and gender in this play. I feel like this scene even holds true to today's standards. This scene showed how harshly men treat women and abuse their feelings, while making themselves feel greater than they are. It is not fair at all that women were not allowed to enjoy sex and could not question their men. On the other hand, the male was able to ask if it was her first time having sex and all other types of questions a woman would not dare to ask a man. Even nowadays it seems like males are like this. They expect to be able to ask their woman any question they choose, but when it comes time for them to answer, they are hesitant and question why they should have to answer to a women. I like women who can stand up for themselves and have their own opinions and goals in life. I would never enjoy telling a female what to do and what she could not do.

Castellano was shedding light to an everyday problem that he sees. He sees how men treat women everyday and how they feel like it is their right to the women and she is thought more of as property than a human-being. This reading is a comical way to look at things, but I feel that people should read this and understand that this is a problem. Men should not feel like they can take control of women or that they are better than women because that is not true. It was crazy for me to think that women were not able to enjoy sex as well. Nowadays if a women did not enjoy sex with her man then it would be all bad news for the relationship. The male would have no confidence in his performance and the female would probably leave the male so she can be sexually satisfied. Sex should not be looked upon as something that has to be tolerated, it should be something that is agreed upon and both people want it.

In the reading about Belkins essay "Opt Out" it talked about how women were educated and were quitting their jobs to take care of their family. I feel like a women should not have to feel obligated to stay home and take care of the family. That is a lot to ask for and you would never see a male quit their job to take care of the family. It just isn't fair that a women should even have to think of losing her career to take care of her family. It seems like all the responsibility is on the women to make things work. Men and women need to work together as equals and opposed to one dominating the other.