Woolf vs. Mead

1.) In her tale of Shakespeare's Sister, Virginia Woolf mentions women's roles in Shakespeare's time which allows me to infer that she knew who her audience would be. The main reason for this is that she talks about how women were under minded and were intellectually inferior to men and not encouraged to participate in the arts. I think she mentions things like this to entice a female audience and show how far we've come in the way of women's rights.

2.) Historians do not really mention or give credit to women and only mention the cruelty they faced and beatings they suffered. Women did not really have control of their lives or choices back then and I think historians do not want to pay attention to women in that time period. 

3.) Back then, regardless of talent or ability, women were not given the opportunity or encouraged to act on their talents. They weren't encouraged to perform in the arts, they were often discredited and talked down to, and their intelligence was put down. Men were also taught to act superior towards women in arts and politics as well. Ultimately, Woolf agreed that we need to change men's and people's attitudes towards women in general and against their abilities. This would allow more confidence and give women more chances to embrace their talents.

1.) Mead has explained that there are not temperamental traits of men and women. Traits like dominance, bravery, aggressiveness, or objectivity are not seen as masculine or feminine and instead are considered to be variations of human behavior. This is something society struggles to understand because we try to generalize and stereotype certain behaviors to certain genders when we need to understand how fluidity works.

2.) In today's society we still place certain feelings and behavior to basic male and female genders. However, because people identify as other genders or sexualities, we restrict and disregard how those people feel and are not being inclusive. This makes society and community struggle as a whole because of close minded people who do not agree with the world changing in this sense.

3.) If there were a man with more "feminine" qualities or a woman with "masculine" qualities, and someone were to point out their flaws and how they should be acting, that person would feel rejected and unloved. This would cause them to not truly embrace who they are and cause insecurities in their life. Ultimately, the opposite gender could feel outcasted or that they don't fit a certain role which can become a major issue.

4.) Like mentioned before, our society remains to be very close minded and disagreeable to change. We should be more respectful and inclusive to people's gender and sexuality and accept people for who they really are. This also applies to minorities who are discriminated for their color, race, age, disabilities, religion, or ethnicity. We need to be more accepting so we can avoid stereotyping and generalizing primitive traits.