HW 22: Mars...Patriarchy is alive and well here

In Virginia Woolf’s novel, A Room of One’s Own she talks about how if someone from another planet were to pick up one of our newspapers it would be plain to see that our world is ruled by patriarchy (Woolf 33). She gives examples about how everything is owned by men and as a result everything but the cloudy forecast is controlled by them. She makes reference to this power as their way of holding on to the control and influence and illustrates how when they write about women’s inferiority they seem angry, and that anger must have to do with trying to keep their power away from women. When I checked out the Boston Globe for the same results I also found that even in this day and age someone could plainly see that men still have the majority of the power, money, and influence. Most of the stories were about men and their political power or their money making ways, and when there were stories about women it was about a teacher, and everyone knows teachers don’t have any money…