HW22: Responding to Virginia Woolf chapter 2

In this particular chapter in A Room Of One's Own I found many examples of patriarchy. On page 25 she began asking herself questions after her luncheon at Oxbridge (men only college). She wondered why men drank wine and women chose to drink water... or was that a choice??? There are some advantages that men have other than woman in England, and she began to explore that. "Why was one sex so prosperous and the other so poor?" (Woolf, 25). These questions may be in each females mind, and it needs to come to closure why? She was also boggled by the fact that men are more interested in women than women in men. She wanted to further her research on this topic and came across very many different perspectives. It states the people really don't choose who to like or dislike, nonetheless others put the thought of what/who to like in your head. So, if men overrule women than people's outlook on men will be much stronger. Generally speaking, people will have more respect for males and that is not fair. People should be treated equal. As I was searching the New York Times website, there merely was not talk about sexism in the United States. I am sure that there is some issues of it in society, but not articles displayed in this newspaper. Slowly, sexism is maturing over time and eventually (by prediction) it will all be put behind us. There are other things to worry about other than who is better. "In a century's time very possibly they will have changed completely. Moreover, in a hundred years ,I thought, reaching my own doorstep, women will have ceased to be the protected sex." (Woolf, 40) She is saying that people will more or less be equal in the long run.