Emily Hutchins
Heidi Echols
SIGN 010
16 November 2016
?What Do Want to Be When You Grow Up?? When I was in elementary school, being asked what the class wanted to do when they grew up usually had some ridiculous answers. I remember one girl wanting to be a princess and a boy saying an astronaut. Middle school rolled around and I did not know what I wanted to be. In high school, my best friend was someone whose smile was like a welcome mat and who?s humor could turn the worst of days into one of your good ones. Even with those features, his eyes spoke of pain. He looked like someone who was slowly unraveling when he thought no one was looking at him. He was self-destructive ?dynamite lit from both ends. My junior year I asked what he wanted …show more content…
These women believed they were not house wives and were worth more than just kitchen maids. These women wanted a change in the world and believed they deserved it. When the men went off to war, women had to start working to afford necessities and still be mothers. Because of this, they started to realize that men were not the only ones who could be engineers or contractors. When the men came back, women were expected to go back to being dainty eye candy. That is not what women had in mind. Flappers helped change the way most people saw women, and it did change some things, but not all the changes positive. Women were still seen as fragile dolls and not what to their potential. Even after World War II, where ladies helped take on the roles of men while the men were overseas. Women created the machinery and guns for the men but, they were still seen as nothing more than a kitchen maid. Since women got a taste of how it felt to earn money, work for themselves, and to feel independent, they want …show more content…
This was not who women wanted to be. There was another group who felt the same way - the gay community. Gay men were known as disgusting and not needed in society until dance clubs came around. The dance clubs had a great vibe and the men could be themselves. The clubs did not care if they were known to be outcast because it brought in great money and kept the place going. Even if they were accepted in clubs, they still needed security when at dance places because people still thought them as pests and animals than human
Heidi Echols
SIGN 010
16 November 2016
?What Do Want to Be When You Grow Up?? When I was in elementary school, being asked what the class wanted to do when they grew up usually had some ridiculous answers. I remember one girl wanting to be a princess and a boy saying an astronaut. Middle school rolled around and I did not know what I wanted to be. In high school, my best friend was someone whose smile was like a welcome mat and who?s humor could turn the worst of days into one of your good ones. Even with those features, his eyes spoke of pain. He looked like someone who was slowly unraveling when he thought no one was looking at him. He was self-destructive ?dynamite lit from both ends. My junior year I asked what he wanted …show more content…
These women believed they were not house wives and were worth more than just kitchen maids. These women wanted a change in the world and believed they deserved it. When the men went off to war, women had to start working to afford necessities and still be mothers. Because of this, they started to realize that men were not the only ones who could be engineers or contractors. When the men came back, women were expected to go back to being dainty eye candy. That is not what women had in mind. Flappers helped change the way most people saw women, and it did change some things, but not all the changes positive. Women were still seen as fragile dolls and not what to their potential. Even after World War II, where ladies helped take on the roles of men while the men were overseas. Women created the machinery and guns for the men but, they were still seen as nothing more than a kitchen maid. Since women got a taste of how it felt to earn money, work for themselves, and to feel independent, they want …show more content…
This was not who women wanted to be. There was another group who felt the same way - the gay community. Gay men were known as disgusting and not needed in society until dance clubs came around. The dance clubs had a great vibe and the men could be themselves. The clubs did not care if they were known to be outcast because it brought in great money and kept the place going. Even if they were accepted in clubs, they still needed security when at dance places because people still thought them as pests and animals than human