Boy, this has been such a long, fun, stressful weekend!! I am very disappointed that the Patriots lost! I was looking forward to them having a perfect season. Other than that, I enjoyed this chapter and was a much easier reading which I had me relieved because this weekend has been such a busy one!
Trivialization - At first, I was unsure where Kellner was getting at with having personal issues in the public sphere. But as I read more into it, I realized it was more of having females' personal issue being publicized. "This worthless, trivial private realm traditionally belonged to women; and the worthy public realm of politics belonged to men." (Kellner, 36). I agree that women do not have much of a say or having our personal issues being exposed because the public life was considered to be seen as a masculine space and that the females' issues do not apply to them. Even today, public life is still being seen as a masculine space; it is largely dominated by men. For example, the majority of our politicians, prime ministers, and presidents are men.
I agree that the women's private public sphere is not as exposed as the men's. I also agree that we should have our private public sphere exposed, just as the men's, that way we can work out our issues as well and have the equal treatment. However, I do not agree with having the worthy public realm politics being equally belonged to men and women. I believe it should be a competition and there should be a ladder to climb in order to reach to the top. I am an old-fashioned woman. I believe that the women should be more conservative, someone has to be the "wife/mother" in the society and I believe that is for us women to take positions of. Whether we like it or not, we still need a person who needs to be more attentive to the personal public sphere, that is/will not being exposed to the public sphere, and usually that is the quiet positions: a wife, mother, and basically a woman. Our jobs aren't so powerfully affected to our society unfortunately, or appreciated enough.
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