After reading "The Seneca Falls Declaration" I feel I've been provided with an excellent view in regards to the "American Women's Suffrage Movement". This piece accurately describes the compelling inequality between men and women in those times. I mean even down to the fact that I along with many others are prone to announcing the man before the women when speaking or writing proves this. While reading this, I as a man feel guilty for some of my thoughts and expectations of women. I think I speak for all who have read this declaration with a humble and patient understanding for the female race and they're ongoing struggles when I say that Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott have given the world a crucial and clear view of the hardship that women had to face in America and countries alike. I don't exclude other places in the world, where women are treated with such disrespect and unconcern because it is still outright an unfair world even if the women who lives in it agrees with it; or is it
You can only imagine the daily mental struggles these women dealt with daily. Its as if in every prior attempt they hit a brick wall. The fight in these women was huge and most of all justified.
Their goal was not to be pitied, placed on a pedestal, and most certainly not to be ignored but to coexist with the respect from other women for their effort and to be given the right to have the right to have a choice of what their lives would be like.
Because of these pioneers and their fight the world we live in is much more concerned with women and their input in this ever growing life. I feel that all movements involving race, sexual orientation, gender or any other righteous cause have and will continue to help each other through similar strategy and their equitable right to live a life with a sufficient amount acceptance Although women all over have come a long way their fight isn't over until we can all accept each other, you see in this declaration these women are not just saying that things needed to change for women, yes that was it's purpose but in my eyes this declaration screams for equality for all !!!
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
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"While reading this, I as a man feel guilty for some of my thoughts and expectations of a women" Interesting I would like to know "What IS the expectation of a woman in 2010 from men in 2010" has these views change since the 1700 and 1800.
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