manifesto

If I had to write a manifesto as Mina Loy did I would write about how woman are taking over in the corporate world.

For decades the head position of most major big buisnesses were run by men. It has only been seen in recent years that woman are gaining positions of power in large companies. Woman have not had big roles in leading major businesses because the standard for a woman is to be a stay at home mother. It is normal for a woman to stay home and take care of the “woman tasks” as the man goes out to work and make all the money for his family. A “woman task” is anything domestic that has a reputation of being a woman’s job, for example cleaning the house is a woman’s job that fits the stereotype.

I would write my manifesto to encourage more woman to get out there in the working field. In 2014 we have come a long way from the woman staying at home with the children, but I still believe we have a long way to come. We need to make a larger movement to make a point that woman are here in the corporate world, were here to stay, and we are here to lead the company.

A woman and a man think different and I believe a lot of male run businesses could use a female input that they may not even know about. I would write this manifesto to stress the fact that woman can’t sit back, we have to take charge and strive for what we want. The normal gender roles for male and female have begun to be broken and we have to continue with this pattern.

 

Thinking Manifesto for 2/25

One of the texts we read for this week was a manifesto. There are many examples of manifestos, whether from an organization, a business, or a movement, artistic, political, or otherwise. In general, they are short pieces of writing that make a powerful argument about their topic. Mina Loy, in her “Feminist Manifesto,” argues a few key points about women in society, including one that women’s value is linked to her virginity, and that her place in society cannot change until that society changes how it values (or commodifies) that virginity, including a a bold solution to this problem.

In Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own, rather than making her points in a short manifesto, she writes throughout the six chapters different ways to conceive of women and fiction, and in the course of doing so, also makes bold arguments expressing feminist views.

If you were going to write a manifesto about women in our society as Loy does, or take on Woolf’s topic of women and fiction, what issue might you write about? Write a post in which you brainstorm about that focus and how you could write about it in a bold way. You might think about some of the issues the characters we’ve encountered so far have had to face, as a way to begin to think about issues your manifesto would address. Be sure to aim for at least 300 words. Use the category Manifesto and also Homework Responses.