Canvas by Peixin Wang

Women's Power

pwang171 — 2024-07-26 18:22:08 UTC

We can see many hands pouring out from the woman herself in the photo. The purpose of my taking this photo is to let the society understand that women bear certain social responsibilities as well as prejudices and injustices from the society. Many people want women to be successful in the workplace as well as taking care of all the chores at home at the same time. I would like to write a poetry about this injustice that has existed in our society for a long time, because it is said in the book “For women, then, poetry is not a luxury; it is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into ideas, then into more tangible action."(Audre,1985)

Women are not tools.

Women are who they are.

They should live the life they want to live.

Not the chains that society puts on them.

They need to break out of their cages.

To be free birds of prey.

Thousands of birds flying together.

It's going to make the waves of the times.

And that is the power of women.

Women's "inborn"

pwang171 — 2024-07-26 18:38:54 UTC

In my perception, household responsibilities should be shared by every member of the family, rather than placing all the cleaning on the woman of the house-especially the mother. I took this picture of my mother a few years ago, and after taking it I told her “Mom, I'll help you with your chores”. But as soon as I said that, I realized that I had subconsciously assumed that housework was a woman's task, especially a mother's task, and that women were naturally more delicate and could do better work, and because I said “help,” I was ashamed of myself for thinking that way. I also ate, I also messed up the dishes, I enjoyed the fruits of my mother's labor and tried to give nothing. I began to think about when the default assumption that women are the “babysitters” has been going on for a hundred years. Drawing on Diana María Acevedo-Zapata's “decolonial feminist praxis,” and drawing on my own perspectives and experiences, I began to talk to people around me about who should be responsible for the chores in the home, and they all agreed that housewives are normal and househusbands are frowned upon.

I don't think it's unfair to give all the chores to the mother or the father, but it's only fair that all the family members take them on together.

Proportion of imbalances

pwang171 — 2024-07-26 19:00:11 UTC

We can see a serious imbalance in the ratio of employees, and a side effect of the fact that women are not only underrepresented in the workplace, but also receive fewer company benefits. “Letters, as opposed to articles and most books, are written explicitly from a first-person perspective and show clear connections between life and thought in a situated, contextual, and enriched manner."(Diana, 2019) The entire following will be a statement of my personal inner thoughts on the injustices to women in the workplace that have been hidden in society for so long. This is a letter to my sister who has experienced bullying in the workplace and to all women who have had similar experiences.

I know that you were once dismissed by your company because you wanted to get pregnant and have a baby, and the company didn't give you any compensation because they forced you to leave by means of workplace bullying. We can see that there is a difference in tolerance left for women and men in the workplace, they simply think that women having to go on maternity leave or bring up children will affect the company's effectiveness. The promotion space that the company brings to women is also different from that of men, as men can have broader promotion opportunities while enjoying high benefits. We can feel that the salary of women is different from that of men, even if they do the same work, have the same amount of work, and women even do more. Where do we go from here? Women want to pursue their careers but encounter one stumbling block after another in the workplace, and I long for someone to help us.

Overreaching “Feminism“

pwang171 — 2024-07-26 19:20:15 UTC

What the picture says is that certain extreme feminisms put heterosexuality in opposition to feminists. These extreme feminists believe that even women with a heterosexual preference are the enemy of women. I think this is very wrong. “When I reread the 2003 letter, I am often stunned by how precise it was about the feelings I'd felt, but also stunned by the boldness of address, the clarity and conviction of force, and the fact of sending such a thing to its recipient. It was a questing for noncoercive communion It was a questing for noncoercive communion, a questing for consent to be otherwise than a single being, a questing to move from unity to multiplicity. Yet it was a questing without the necessary language or guiding ideologies gained Yet it was a questing without the necessary language or guiding ideologies gained through the years of necessary work against sexism, patriarchy, misogynoir, queer antagonism, empire, colonization, and antiblack racism. colonization, and antiblack racism."(Ashon, 2020) We should not ignore heterosexual groups when thinking about homosexual groups. Sexual orientation is equal, and it does not mean that if I am a woman and I like men then I am a product of a patriarchal structure of thought, and at the same time if I am a woman and I like women then I am a prominent representative of feminists. Sexual orientation and equal rights cannot be equated. What feminists really want to do is to fight for women's rights and eliminate social injustices, not attack another woman.

Women are not commodities

pwang171 — 2024-07-26 19:39:25 UTC

This picture is like a manifesto, which is the “silent” but deafening injustice that women experience in society. Women have long been subjected to invisible or explicit social injustices. Based on all our life experiences as women in terms of gender, you can see that we are theoretically equal, and in my own perceptions, but in reality we encounter inequality all the time, which is so varied, such as workplace discrimination, sexism, sexual harassment, son preference, patriarchal structures, and so on. We don't know where to talk about them, but we feel them so strongly, like thorns in our clothes. In the city where I was born, the preference for sons is especially strong, so from the time I was born my parents were surrounded by voices that said to them, “Is it enough to have only one daughter, you should have a boy. ”These people also have something to say that a married daughter is water that has been spilled, and that a daughter is a bargaining chip to be exchanged, a commodity that can be marked up at will. But my parents didn't have this kind of old and wrong thinking, they thought it was enough to have me as a daughter. But then we can understand that there are many women in this society who are struggling in the mire of this prejudice, who are longing for a breath of fresh air from above, who are longing for the right to truly be a woman.