HW 22: Patriarchy

In chapter two of Virginia Woolf's book A room of one's own there happens to be a lot of patriarchy. The first bit of patriarchy I picked out from page 27, "Women do not write books about men- a fact that I could not help welcoming with relief , for if i had first to read all that men have written about women, then all that women have written about men, that aloe that flowers once in a hundred years would flower twice before I could not set pen to paper." This shows the patriarchy that men have in how they write about women and sex, but women never and would never write about sex and men ever. Why are women so limited in what they can write about or say or do. Just testing the limits and having women be at a loss in patriarchy. I looked back onto page 26 to see a statement reading "Have you any notion how many are written by men? Are you aware that you are, perhaps, the most discussed animal in the universe?" Why women! Why always women? For all that I know, women have had disadvantages to being women, and that's rough. But to be the most written about 'animal' in the world? That's crazy, Not only are men writing all of this, they have such power or 'patriarchy' over women. Reading the New York Times I happened to fall upon an article specifically talking about patriarchy, entitled "WELL-BEHAVED WOMEN SELDOM MAKE HISTORY" it's basically fighting the rights of women and speaking out in writing and how it is possible now and how if there is a slight bit of patriarchy that they will fight it to it's death.