A woman by the name of Betty Friedan in the 1960s was someone who aspired to express how women were facing a problem of dissatisfaction in their lives. She was able to address the problem they were facing through writing a book named “The Feminine Mystique” talking about problems such as: their happiness, their careers, their equality and rights, and others. Friedan voiced on altering the problem women faced at the time displaying how women can’t continue to suffer with their problems. Friedan had many ideas about women, agreeing and disagreeing with certain ideas on what women should do and shouldn’t do. As a matter of fact, a few ideas she would support are: women getting an education, women being independent, and women being happy. There …show more content…
Some texts that do not reflect Friedan’s beliefs are, “Stand by Your Man” and “The #MeToo for US Gymnasts” (Doc B),(Doc C). In like manner, an example that Friedan would disagree with is, “Stand By Your Man” the lyrics, “You’ll have bad times And he’ll have good times Doing things that you don’t understand” (Doc B). Whereas, If Friedan was alive today, she wouldn’t agree with “Stand By Your Man” because Friedan states, “A girl refused a science fellowship at Johns Hopkins to take a job in a real-estate office. All she wanted, she said, was what every other American girl wanted-to get married, have four children and live in a nice house in a nice suburb” (Friedan 2). Different from “Stand By Your Man” Friedan beliefs don’t support women that aren’t succeeding and excelling in earning a career and rather maintaining their status as “housewife” (Doc B). Moving on with another example from the text, “Stand By Your Man” is the lyric, “Give him two arms to cling to And something warm to come to When nights are cold and lonely” (Doc B). If Friedan was alive today, Fridan would disagree with “Stand By Your Man” because Friedan states, “Many women no longer left their homes, except to shop, chauffeur (drive) their children, or attend a social engagement with their husbands” (Doc B),(Friedan 2). Unlike “Stand By Your Man”, the text doesn’t display Friedan’s beliefs in getting women understand that they have the capacity to leave their homes with no questions asked about their whereabouts (Doc B). Furthermore, the text “The #MeToo for US Gymnasts” stating, “In the courtroom in Michigan, the assistant attorney general, Angela Povilaitis, said:”We teach our girls and daughters to be too nice. To just ignore and put up with uncomfortable situation, to stay silent when they should be allowed to be heard”” (Doc C). If