secret’s blog

A patriarchy is a society in which the men hold the most power over women.  After reading chapter 2 my basic interpretation was that women are beneath men.  Virginia Woolf looks through books at the library about women and finds an interesting topic; it deals with the physical inferiority of women. Woolf then comes to the conclusion that male scholars don’t care about the inferiority of women rather than defending the male superiority. “Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how many are written by men? Are you aware that you are, perhaps, the most discussed animal in the universe”? (pg. 26)  After reading this quote I interpreted that women are spoken about much more than men are, although this does not mean that positive things are constantly being said.  When I went to the New York Times website many of the article titles on the front page seemed to deal with men.  The article I chose was titled State in Limbo as Questions Swirl About Spitzer’s Future.  If a visitor came to our planet and took a look at this article I think that they would immediately label the United States as a patriarchy society.  After looking over the article they would discover that the governor of New York is in a great deal of trouble.  This article showed that the governor was first of all a male.  Looking at other articles in the newspaper, all other topics dealing with the government all had names of men.