Blog Entry #13

Ilenny Nunez

Professor Santos

ENG199-003

Blog Entry #13

 

            This week one the articles that were discussed in class The “War on Boys”. Narrative Is Back. Ugh by A.K. Whitney. When I first looked at the article by the title I thought that it was going to be something that will support women in a way. But then when I started reading it I couldn’t believe what the author was saying. One of the things that were mentioned were I was just like “smh” was when the author said that men can’t no longer find their Mrs. in college because of the careers that women pursue are not the same as before and that’s why I asked myself but what’s wrong with women trying to get themselves involve in careers that men are mostly the dominants ones. Because if society claims that men and women are equal then why can’t we have the same career?

Another thing that it just made me mad was when the author tried to imply that is women fault the fact that they are so many sexual assaults events on colleges because now are more women coming to college and this made me think that if men feel pressure form women this is not a solution or neither will stop women coming to college. Also this part made me think that for some reason women are always the one to blame when they are abused in a certain way; like I remember when I was in middle school in the Dominican Republic that there was this time when a boy attacked me in the wall and he was kind of choking me and then I hit him but the professor just took it as a game and said to me you can’t blame him you are cute and also smart so he feels intimidated by you. I honestly didn’t know what to say but I feel that it shouldn’t be like this women are not the ones to blame for men acting violent towards us.

Something else that was discussed in the class was the fact that a lot of women are competitive and we do have that feeling that we want to be better than guys and also this contributes to the reason that now women mostly wait until they are fully done with their career to get married and start a family, which again in my own opinion I don’t think it’s wrong because we can choose for ourselves what we want, like in my case I have always been really independent and that’s why I want to have my own future built because if one day I don’t want to keep being with someone I won’t have a problem by living on my own. I really don’t believe in the fact that a certain careers are only for men and the others for women, neither I believe in the fact that women don’t need education because they are meant to take care of the family.