Summary Of Women's Voices Feminist Visions

One problem I learned from class, is that women are currently still face many issues that were once thought of as being resolved. Issues such as wage discrimination, job discrimination, sexualization, and violence are only a few of the many issues we are challenged with. Not only do women still deal with these issues but we also endure sexism on a day to day biases. These issues never came to my attention in my everyday life. However, through taking this class it made me socially aware of the issues that I was facing but was not conscious of. The class taught me many things I did not know. I never knew there were separate ads for women and men, so they could only apply for gender specific jobs. I was not aware the advertisements of the past …show more content…
Discrimination hurts everyone and it is up to everybody in our society to get rid of it. While reading I noticed a comic strip in the book, “Women’s Voices Feminists Visions ”(Horacek, 2014, Discourse, Power, and Knowledge), shows how some people feel like the issues certain people go through is not their personal issue, even though it is. It shows how people feel as if systems of inequality do not still exist. They feel if the discrimination is not happening to them, then it none of their concern. It shows how stereotypes, ideologies, sexism harm our society and affects everything and everyone. In the book “Full Frontal Feminism”, (Valenti, 2014, Chapter 3), they discuss all the contradictions our society tells girls. I agree with the author on how society wants us to be two things at the same time. It gives women an unrealistic vision to live up to. I feel as if women should not have to live up to society’s double standard. We should all just live our lives and enjoy who and what we are. We should live how we want to and do what makes us happy. We need to stop trying to live up to society’s standards of life and simply