{"id":7345,"date":"2021-04-14T10:28:49","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T14:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/?p=7345"},"modified":"2021-04-14T10:28:49","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T14:28:49","slug":"blog-post-4-15-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/2021\/04\/14\/blog-post-4-15-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Post 4\/15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The beginning of \u201cThe Yellow Wallpaper\u201d is really frustrating to read (most of it is frustrating to read as a woman, but I figured I\u2019d start at the beginning). When Stetson first comes down with her \u201cnerves\u201d she writes off her own ability to do what is best for her and how she actually feels. She says that she disagrees with their ideas, \u201cthat congenial work, with excitement and change, would do [her] good,\u201d but what is she to do (648)? Stetson is expected to blindly trust that her husband and brother know more about what she needs than she does. Furthermore, if she did not trust the men in her life and value their opinions she would feel \u201cungrateful not to value it more\u201d (648). It is obvious that she, like many women throughout history as we know, was taught to stifle her own opinion even when, if not especially when, it came to her body.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The yellow wallpaper as a symbol for her disintegrating mental state is super interesting. Like everyone\u2019s mental health, the wallpaper just hovered and watched over Stetson for weeks impeding on her life and her \u201crest\u201d. Instead of being allowed to manage her mental health with people\u2019s company, or her hobbies, or anything at all, Stetson was overcome by the complexity of her mental health. This story served as a warning to many females and doctors that the \u201crest-cure treatment\u201d was not actually helpful at all. I think in today\u2019s context this story would serve as a prime example of the importance of proactively taking care of your mental health and seeking the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">right<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> kind of help. In a modern context, we no longer practice \u201crest-cures\u201d on \u201cnervous\u201d women with extreme frequency, but we do still belittle women\u2019s pain and experiences with health issues. \u201cThe Yellow Wallpaper\u201d can still be a lesson to show that women really do know best when it comes to their health and the only outcome of doubting they know best is making matters worse for everyone&#8211; especially the women.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The beginning of \u201cThe Yellow Wallpaper\u201d is really frustrating to read (most of it is frustrating to read as a woman, but I figured I\u2019d start at the beginning). When Stetson first comes down with her \u201cnerves\u201d she writes off her own ability to do what is best for her and how she actually feels. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4546,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading-responses"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4546"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7346,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7345\/revisions\/7346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}