Life comes with many obstacles and challenges. In the 1960s-1980s, during the Feminist Movement, women were fighting for equality, for liberation and for freedoms. Brenda Lager was born and raised in the inner city of Cincinnati in the 1950s. She grew up in a blue collared family and her ancestor descended from indentured servants from Scotland. Brenda Lager had many disadvantages in her life and was restricted in the way she had to live her life. She is a military wife and a mother of two beautiful women. One just so happens to be my step mom. I met Brenda about 4 years ago when my father and her youngest daughter, Angela, started dating. As military wives, Brenda and other women on the base really did have no power at all. “They didn’t talk
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In the Ted Talk that Chimamanda did, she showed how men were seen as being more important than women. That women were the lesser of the two genders. All of the topics that Brenda discussed showed this from jobs and pay for women to women being bossed around by men. The video "Makers: Story of the Modern Feminist Movement" showed how women were objectified. They had to be within a certain height, weight, and age to be considered for this job on an airplane. The appearance of these women was everything. When they turned a certain age they were fired since they "weren't as attractive." This video showed that women were expected to be a certain way and act a certain way to be accepted. This was like when Brenda was telling me about how those ladies were fired from their jobs since they wouldn’t wear high heels to work. In “A day without feminism”, it shows that without feminism, women's lives can be so restricted compared to men. For example, women cannot do larger sports such as tennis in high school. Brenda was saying in the interview that women and girls weren’t allowed to participate in competitive sports. Women only could take part in cheerleading, band, and pep club. Another text from our course that connected to the interview was the video about Billie Jene King and Bobby Riggs battling it out on the tennis court. Brenda remembers watching this match and she realized that this matched changed women’s sports forever since a woman beat a man in a match. Finally I would like to mention the video "Miss Representational". This video reveals a lot of proof of how media plays a significant role in shaping people's expectation or evaluation toward women. All about women is their bodies. Few people pay attention to their thoughts. That's why the most important thing young girls care about is their weight and look. The media creates this kind of consciousness that women have.
In the Ted Talk that Chimamanda did, she showed how men were seen as being more important than women. That women were the lesser of the two genders. All of the topics that Brenda discussed showed this from jobs and pay for women to women being bossed around by men. The video "Makers: Story of the Modern Feminist Movement" showed how women were objectified. They had to be within a certain height, weight, and age to be considered for this job on an airplane. The appearance of these women was everything. When they turned a certain age they were fired since they "weren't as attractive." This video showed that women were expected to be a certain way and act a certain way to be accepted. This was like when Brenda was telling me about how those ladies were fired from their jobs since they wouldn’t wear high heels to work. In “A day without feminism”, it shows that without feminism, women's lives can be so restricted compared to men. For example, women cannot do larger sports such as tennis in high school. Brenda was saying in the interview that women and girls weren’t allowed to participate in competitive sports. Women only could take part in cheerleading, band, and pep club. Another text from our course that connected to the interview was the video about Billie Jene King and Bobby Riggs battling it out on the tennis court. Brenda remembers watching this match and she realized that this matched changed women’s sports forever since a woman beat a man in a match. Finally I would like to mention the video "Miss Representational". This video reveals a lot of proof of how media plays a significant role in shaping people's expectation or evaluation toward women. All about women is their bodies. Few people pay attention to their thoughts. That's why the most important thing young girls care about is their weight and look. The media creates this kind of consciousness that women have.