This podcast had really opened my eyes as to how back in those days, the women of the time had really not been recognized for their hard work and the great doing that they had successfully achieved. This is sort of astonishing because we have extremely import role models that are women, like Rosa Parks, that have achieved excellence for our world and for them to not be recognized because they aren’t males is extremely passive.
In the podcast it had also brought up the point of only being recognized for intelligence or making an act of doing so. Also, being recognized especially if you were a make and had done something astonishing for your country or for the overall greatness of our world. Being a man comes with a lot of responsibility and I agree that if a male role model has done something great, then he deserves to be recognized in the correct manner. On that same not this podcast really opened my mind to how sexist our country really was back in those years and how acts of greatness was only achieved through fitting the “spectrum” of being a “countries good look”.
Going along with your point even further than givng the women their recognition, but doing it in a healthy way. Using the right words and conveying it to focus on the correct aspects.
I really liked that point in the podcast too. How Great Man Theory has not only effected who we write down, but WHY we write anyone down. They touched on how when looking from a herstorical perspective, women cannot be held to the same standard as men, because that isn’t realistic. Of course we haven’t hear of dozens of female warheroes, female patriots, female constitution writers–they weren’t allowed to do any of that! They didn’t have the chance. Maybe some weaseled in, but they did it discreetly. That sort of perspective is really important.
I agree that women were not recognized for their hard work and efforts. In addition, because of this, women have not been seen as leaders until a recent time period, that is why there isn’t many throughout history.
Furthering this idea, I found it important when she says “it’s important to problematize history” that way we can look at in a different perspective and get a bigger picture instead of what has been written. Because women havent been as greatly acknowledged in history we need to re-look at things.