Feminist Manifesto

While reading this piece I came to realize that there were a lot more going in back in the day then just slavery and racism. Mina Loy's Feminist Manifesto made me see how hard women had it.
"Cease to place your confidence in economic legislation, vice-crusades & uniform education-you are glossing over Reality." I'm really glad that she had a foot note here because I did not understand what she was talking about. It was very hard for a woman to be her own individual because of the law. She could not own land, did not have access to higher education. Women were programmed to be depended on the man. First it was their father, then they were married off and the husband took of them. I'm very proud of her for saying and writing all of this. It is too bad it was not published earlier but again considering the circumstances in the early 19th hundreds she would have gotten in trouble for writing this.
Another point that strikes me in the text when she says: “Leave off looking to men to find out what you are not – seek within yourselves to find out what you are”. This to me is really a great quote. Many women should read it now and realized that they need to figure out who and what they are without a man. Loy seems to be like a very educated and a smart woman. Also I could tell that she is speaking from experience. The words that are emphasized in bold, large letters are telling us something. She obviously wants us to pay attention to them.
Another passage that stood out to me was on page 1504 “… would the unconditional surgical destruction of her virginity through-out the female population at puberty.” Kind of a disturbing thing to me but maybe during the time this was written it would actually work. Maybe man wouldn’t be possessive as much.
I chose to write about this well because first of all it stood out to me and also to say the least how very happy I am that I do not have to live by the rules that women had to live by in the early days. I’m very independent and could not imagine being dependent on a man right now. I love them but I want to live my own life and could not stand to being told what to do. I’m happy that she realized that finding your self does not need to be looked for in a man or anyone else for that matter.