Monday, September 5, 2011
Week 3 John Frog
The play/reading was hilarious. It was interesting to read they were going to torture John Frog knowing he was bearing a child, as if to punish him more for being pregnant without thought of the child inside him. It also concerning to know that in this story if you don't fit into the mold of masculinity you can become pregnant.
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I think it's interesting that multiple of the articles/stories/plays we've now read in this class end with a saying about how men can't trust women. This play ended basically by implying when women have babies, we will never know who the true father is, and therefore we cannot trust them. I always have thought that men felt women were inferior beings, yet what these conclusions lead me to think is that men were actually afraid of women and their power. Why were men afraid of women and therefore felt they couldn't be trusted? Did men feel subconsciously threatened by women? I don't think it was simply that men thought they were not as smart or inferior, because all these morals seem to imply men thought woman were cunning and not trustworthy, which would actually make them very clever and smart.
ReplyDeleteDo you think that this play criticizes more feminine men or masculine women? What about in general? Is it easier to accept a feminine man or a masculine woman?
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