Ina Cawl's Reviews > Women & Power: A Manifesto

It is a shame for women to be loud

I don’t know who told me this this stupid wisdom and I don’t remember
Maybe in my school or maybe in my house but nevertheless I feel guilty for believing it.
Why some men or most of traditional men are scared of women talking loudly, what about women doest those feel irritated by it ?
Lack of public speaking to group of people was curse that befell on women for most of time and still now that right to speak in public place ( usually men’s areas ) .

For many centuries and centuries women in many countries and continents were usually forbidden or discouraged from speaking in public area to group of people.
Mary Beard which is very important historian and Author of many historical book
Has tried to understand why misogyny and men’s fear of women being in power came to being,and why this irrationally still haunts to this day.
Since the author is a lot of experience in greek roman history and usually that is the historic origin for most of European traditions and norms.
The book starts with Homer and if you read you remember this scene when
«Telemachus intervenes: ‘Mother,’ he says, ‘go back up
into your quarters, and take up your own work, the loom and the distaff … speech will be the business
of men, all men, and of me most of all; for mine is the power in this household»
There is some tragicomedy in this scene on how a young boy can order his mom like that and how can his mom allows him to order her like that
This scene teaches us a lot about what is to be a man in that era
Mostly being capable of speaking in public and simultaneously disempowerment and subjecting household women to men’s order.

Miss trigg’s example

What happens when women in a group of men tries to voice her opinion on the subject

( that’s excellent suggestion, miss triggs , perhaps one of the men here would like to make it.)
Even after voicing her opinions what usually occurs after a few awkward silence is either dismiss it and the men continue from where they were talking or outright ignore her.
The lucky women who survived the abomination of public speech were either the victims or martyrs .
Even if women were allowed to speak in classical era they were usually allowed to speak for her own gender and nothing else

Public speech and the choices women have

Even if women were allowed to talk in front of many people there were not many subjects to talk about excepts women’s issues or family issues,I know this is important subjects to talk about but even so to minimise women role of defending only to this issues and relegating all other subject as men profession is hidden sexism that contaminates every society then and still now

Modern internet troll and women speech

Watching youtube and sometimes reading the comments down below the amount of hate speech directed toward is quite mind boggling and disturbing at least
I don’t want to generalise but the amount of troll rape threat men send toward far exceed many times the amount of trolls threats women send toward men

Eventually with coming of 2018 and with so many women speaking against sexual harassment in workforce in media in hollywood and in politics also
The leeway men got with their outrageous behaviour are coming to end and society for now listens and takes women opinions and thought seriously