Caitlin seemed to believe women should be able to choose what they want to do in their life, and choose whether they want to have babies or not. She wrote, "we need more women who are allowed to prove their worth as people, rather than being assessed merely for their potential to create new people." I really liked that sentence, because I find it very true. She believes that women who don't want to have kids should not be judged. I think Crews would agree that women should be able to choose if they do or don't want kids without being judged or frowned upon. At the same time, Crews seems to be more sensetive towards kids, because of the story he told about when he and his son went to watch Iron Man. I don't mean to say Caitlin is harsh towards children, she herself is a mother, but I felt that at times she made it seem like kids are such a burden, and can ruin women's lives, but I guess thats up to peoples opinion.
Both Terry and Caitlin are parents, so I think they would agree that gender equality is very important, because they would want their children to be raised in a society where women are treated as equally as men are. Hopefully, with more and more people starting to talk about feminism, we will see the equality soon.
I think you have done a great job on explaining how the two authors would have agreed with each other, and how they might have different opinions on children.
ReplyDeleteYes, they both mentioned children or babies in their work. Caitlin considers all babies as burdens for mothers in their careers and lives, even though she is a mother herself with experience taking care of children, I still think our opinions towards having and taking care babies varies based on different people. Personally, for me, I would enjoy raising a baby, and watching him or her growing up, I think that feels like I have achieved something to me. However, as I said, this opinion varies, there must be people like Caitlin who do not want babies, but we would both agree that women should be able to choose freely whether they want a baby or not. For Terry Crews, I think I would agree with his idea that feminism is not an idea that women should have more rights than men, as he said; it is mostly about an equal relationship between men and women, this is exactly what I believe, there is no higher position in the relationship. Like what Crews said, both men and women have their roles in the family, but on the other hand, ignore the roles, there are purposes for both man and women to act. I hope more and more people would begin to see this point.
I enjoyed both the reading and the book as well and I loved the way you described their dinner in which I agree that they would agree on many things but I also believe that Crews would disagree with Caitlin’s topic of children being a burden. As am sure she didn’t mean for it to sound as harsh as it did in the article I think she simply wrote it to defend women that don’t want kids or aren’t thinking about kids right now. I do think that Crews would argue that yes many people want to see women with kids but not because they want to see their careers end but to see how powerful they can be balancing both. And being that powerful “superwoman” Crews makes women to be. I think Crews is primarily trying to get men to understand the struggles of women every day and reach out so that they can step up and become an equal so that women do not have such a heavy load on their shoulders. However on this view I believe Caitlin will argue that men try to be our equals especially with kids but as long as society is looking for women to have babies everyday then men will continue to hold a higher power which is why they believe to be better than us in some ways.
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