Responding and Reflecting #2

We have always heard that women never have had the same rights as men. How women have can't do what men are able to. When reading Beloved i had the image that women were treated awful especially when you were a slave. We have always be taught that slaves were never given any rights even if they  did become “Free Men/Women”. What i have read so far in Beloved is that women were seen nothing more than a desire, men would want to have the pleasure to have sex with them but that would be it. Women were nothing more but toys. As i'm reading this book in the Feminists Lens, I am able to see more of how women were actually treated. The reason why is because if we get context from a book we are not familiar with what is really going on in everyone's lives. We only see what goes around when they are out and about but not when they are home or what happen with lights are off.

Sethe the main character of this book is living a a place names 124 far away from where she once lived. Even though she was a free woman she was still not free in spirit nor mentally. As Sethe was living in Sweet Home black men desired her and since they were not able to get with her they would have sex with cows. Another big scene was when she got raped and 2 boys milked her breast milk. Feminist lens is a big role in this book. The reason why is because even though we only know what goes on from reading the history book, Beloved gives us a bigger image of what slave men actually thought and what they actually felt. Instead of us just looking at a image and having our own thoughts. Beloved brings a bigger image on what slavery actually is and what really goes on.

In this generation women have more rights, more freedom. Women are not just known for females that stay home cook clean and take care of the kids. Instead women are able to work do things men thought they were never capable of. My beliefs when it comes to women having power is it should always be equal no matter what. Yes Slavery happened in the 1800’s and even at this very moment there is still a little racism when it comes to color skinned. For example at the store there 2 barbies that look somewhat identical except that one of them is white and the other is black. The reason why is bring up this example is because the barbie that is black has a lower price that the barbie that it white. Should both of this barbies be the same price if they are toys.