(Obviously, this is not my dress!)  So I enjoyed reading this article by Gayle Rubin.  I think that we can all learn a lot from this article.  The first thing I would really like to write about is on page 1664 I like how he compared the racism that black people go through and the racism that women go through.  I think this brings up a really strong argument.  Just tonight, my boyfriend and I were talking about how uneasy in history it has been for black people.  Its very similar to women trying to achieve rights.  I think an entire book, alone, could com-pare the struggles between blacks and women and we would really see how much both had to fight through in order to be where they are today…its bullshit.

     Another part that really stood out to me was on page 1666 when the list of “food, clothing, housing, and fuel” (but in this case not so much fuel) how that list really applies to women.  About 5 sentence down you see women appear as “house work.”  It talks about how we need food, clothing, housing, and fuel to survive, so do women make these things possible for us to survive from?  Our we the savior?!  This posses some very interesting questions that we need to consider. 

     Further in this article it speaks of how women’s wages usually tend to be lower then mens.  Well, if we are contributing to the main factors that society needs to survive, than maybe women should not receive such little pay.

    Gender roles play a major part in this essay.  I liked how on page 1671 Strauss says how “The idea that marriages are a most basic form of a gift exchange, in which it is women whoa re the most precious gift.”  Now, I am getting married and I would like  to think of myself as a “gift” to my future husband, but that would just be me being silly.  We are gifts to each-other; we’re each-others mates.  We complete each-other and neither nor are more “perfect” and neither one is more “precious.”  Its all give and take here!