Dangerous Women
They fight with power, speak with persuasion and play with seduction. Their humor is cold and wet and they strive to make a name for themselves. They nurture and take care of their followers but they also make time to get down to business. Don’t worry, I knew what you were thinking, but this has nothing to do with any sort of political election, well almost nothing. For once this is about the women. For many centuries, women would seldom leave their houses. They weren’t tied up, or locked in, so why were they always there? Women worked and spent most of their time cleaning the house, doing dishes and taking care of her children because that is what society and men expected from all women back then. “They did what they could to assure that women carried out their supportive roles as faithful and deferential helpers and nurturing companions” (Hoffert, 15). Men were the breadwinners and were physically stronger than any women, or so they liked to believe. For men, their physical strength is what made them so powerful in the world and amongst the opposite sex. But unfortunately for the men, they forgot that women posses a strong sense of mental and emotional strength, making them extremely dangerous in any situation.
Women were stepped on for so many years, and they were tired of being treated like flies. Of course they all wanted the perfect love story with the perfect family, but had ambitions to accomplish so much more. Women wanted to make it known to all men that they too could make it in a man’s world, but most men shrugged it off. “If perticuliar care and attention is not paid to the laidies we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation” (Abigail Adams, Hoffert, 54). If these words did not make any man feel scared or threatened, than it is no wonder why they