Entry for week of October 28

 One of the most interesting things that stood out to me this week was the movie "I, the worst of all" and the poem and article by Sor Juana. These works showed the true division of gender equality the way it was in that time. Women were seen as being inferior and not as capable as men as shown in the movie when the archbishop reprimands Juana for being so into literature and poetry. Men believed that women should not be allowed to interpret certain intellectual and religious information. The poem showed the impossible standards women were held to and how in men's eyes the woman is always wrong. The article focused more on the intellectual discrimination towards women. For example, when it talked about how women were allowed to read intellect but were not seen worthy enough to interpret it. Yet, a man with no knowledge was allowed to interpret.  Sor Juana's work called out the unfair standards and rules set by men and brought to attention the way that women should be more respected and valued. 

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  1. Seth TenElshofOctober 28, 2021 at 4:49 PM

    Olivia, that is a good point! There was really no gender equality at all in those days. Men somehow thought that women were incapable of doing things that men did, when in fact this was not true at all. It is a very good thing that we as a society have largely moved past this extreme viewpoint.

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  2. Professor StarkNovember 2, 2021 at 9:33 AM

    Thank you, Olivia, for the post. I appreciate what you wrote about women not having access to knowledge of the ability to think on their own but I was left wanting to read more about why this was the case. It wasn't so much that women were always wrong as that they were believed to be incapable of critical thinking.

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