Wednesday, October 26, 2011

LA CONCIENCIA DE LA MESTIZA: TOWARD A NEW CONSCIOUSNESS?? BY GLORIA ANZALDUA

LA CONCIENCIA DE LA MESTIZA

REFLECTION:

First of all, she faces the challenges to be an interracial woman .  This means she comes from a mix relationship between a white man and aboriginal woman. Second of all, she is a woman and she emphasizes the fact that it is difficult as it is for a woman to lie in this men world's imagine how difficult it would be for a mestiza woman.  Third of all, she is also a homosexual, which adds even more salt to her miseries.

As this author I have faced equal problems sometimes in my life. I'm a hispanic  woman who came to this country looking for the american dream.  Having to learned another language, another costume, make new friends .  Every day became a challenge for me.

Having to face the problems of inequality and gender discrimination at times of my life.

RANDOM POST FOR THIS WEEK

SORRY BUT I LOVE THIS PICTURE. JJJJJJJJJJ

FISH WHO NEED A BICYCLE

I BELIEVE THE AUTHOR IS TOTALLY RIGHT WHEN SHE SAYS I DON'T WANT MY DAUGHTER TO HAVE A BICYCLE I WANT MY DAUGHTER TO HAVE ANOTHER FISH. I BELIEVE SHE DOESN'T CARE IF HER DAUGHTER PARTNER IS A MAN OR A WOMAN AS LONG AS HER DAUGHTER IS HAPPY AND IS ABLE TO ACCOMPLISH HER DREAMS IN LIVE.

CINDERELLA ATE MY DAUGHTER BY PEGGY ORENSTEIN

A WOMAN NEEDS A MAN LIKE A FISH NEEDS A BICYCLE


What do you think about this article and let me know if you agree with it


Like A Fish Needs A Bicycle
Like A Fish Needs A Bicycle
A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.

"A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle."
Or so we are told.
Oh really?
Hmm. Let's see now.
Let us investigate the matter.
It is men who have produced the greatest works in allof the arts - literature, poetry, music, paintings, sculptures, films, plays, architecture etc. ...
It is men who have progressed most of our understanding in just about all areas to do with science, engineering and medicine - astronomy, chemistry, biochemistry, physics, geology, cosmology, mathematics, economics, geography, climatology, aeronautics, pharmacology, surgery, computer hardware, software etc etc etc etc ... 
It is men who have built the houses, the bridges, the roads, the railways, the dams, the factories
It is men who have built the houses, the bridges, the roads, the railways, the dams, the factories, the ships, the canals, the monuments, the airports, the churches, the offices, the tunnels, the engines, the industrial machinery etc. ... 
It is men mostly who have worked in the factories, the furnaces, the sewers, the mines etc. ... 
It is men mostly who have, rightly or wrongly, fought the wars, fought the crimes, fought the elements, fought the odds etc. ... 
And it is men who have invented, discovered and done just about everything that has ever been invented, discovered and done.
So it seems to me that, while an individual woman might well need a man as much as a fish needs a bicycle, women, as a whole, need men just as much as a fish needs water.
In other words, women need men just to survive!
In fact, both men and women need men like a fish needs water.
The whole human race does.
As such, the more that men are disadvantaged, disorientated, dissuaded, demonised and discriminated against, and, hence, the more alienated and the more destructive they become, so it is that the whole human race will pay a heavy price.
And yet for the past decade or so, we have seen various 'scientists' proclaiming hither and thither that men are becoming redundant, that their presence will soon no longer be required, that their faulty Y chromosome is going to disappear and that, in essence, they are merely parasites on women.
But look at the list above.
Would women ever do what men do?
Could women ever do what men do?
Would women even want to do what men do?
I suspect not, for the most part.
And yet one often hears western women proclaiming quite seriously that they are now "independent of men", and that they no longer need them.
The truth, however, is that they are still as dependent on men as they ever were.
For just about everything.

Growing up in Girl Culture. CINDERELLA ATE MY DAUGHTER.

CINDERELLA ATE MY DAUGHTER.

Connection:

I can connect this text to the reading with did about oppression. How the princess are expected to be humble, hapless girls who are submissive, low-achieving, easily influenced. Princesses avoid female bonding, their goal are to be saved by a prince, get married, and be taken care of for the rest of their lives.


It reminds me of the man opening the door for the woman. For example, when the prince rescue the princess in his horse or when the prince kissed the princess to wake her up.  And  the prince take the princess to the castle and they lived happily ever after. I wonder sometimes can a man be so nice????. Are this heroic acts truly , or he just wanna have a maid, a woman that won't complaint or fight back for her rights, someone that is so preoccupied about being unable to support herself that she has to rely on him and obey him as he pleased.


This society is so sick. It is all about psychical looks and sexuality.  And I think that is what the author is talking about .  Why do we have to teach our girls to dress in pink. Race them in this imaginary world of fantasy. Bring them up thinking a prince will come and rescued them for them to be happy.


  Isn't that a little out or reality, I believe it is. There is no PRINCE there is not PERFECT MAN that is going to come and rescue us to live happily ever after.  Why not instead teach our girls to be self-sufficient, productive, less selfish, to care more about the inside of someone and sometimes even overlook at the outside, to be less self centered, that there is not such thing as a poison apple. But there is such thing called ignorance.


How funny it is that if you go to the store to find Mulan


 


And Pocahontas

you can hardly find any toys that reflects this characters.  I wonder why maybe because Mulan is kind of manly looking or because Pocahontas is kind of dark..

Monday, October 24, 2011

What About The Boys.

This is in relation to the article What Are Little Boys Made Of????


Men are just like that

Is This Justice?