secret’s blog

With Apologies to Virginia Woolf

While scrolling through www.jezebel.com I came across an article titled, “If That Is Awkward For You, Please Do Not Apply, I Don’t Like Awkwardness.”   I was quite surprised at what this gentleman, or so called “Professional Poker Player” was proposing as a job for a young woman.  Paying a woman $13 per hour for doing all of his house chores, feeding him, filling his car with gasoline, and other things that may come up seemed very degrading to me.  From the job description it seemed as though this young man was looking for a sexual partner although he may say the opposite.  He came off as being utterly racist and shallow when he said that the women who applied for the job had to be between the age of 18 and 25.  Not only did they have to be extremely young, but they also had to be attractive.  I could not believe that this man was asking for virtually his own private slave that had to meet his very strict standards.  “Imaginatively she is of the highest importance; practically she is completely insignificant” (P. 54).  It upsets me to see the way in which woman are still being looked upon.  I feel that their rights are being taken for granted, and that their free will is being ignored.