About Rocio's blog entry.

"The most important topic in Virginia Woolf’s essay is the genre issue. During those times, woman did not have the same rights than man, but do they have them now? I don’t think so. We have the same problem 70 years later.
In terms of writing, women were not suppose write or read certain topics like philosophy, religion, science fiction, and so on. After a few years, women started writing and reading what they wanted, but they were always critized because of it. Virginia discusses if women are able to write or create pieces of work as good as men do. At that time, women were not allowed to enter to all of the university or even to walk on the grass. Women were left a side, but they started to win their territory step by step.
The most interesting part of this essay, for me, was the fact that the problems those women lived 70 years ago are still an issue. Women are still mistreated, earn less money and men tend to believe that women are less intelligent than men. We need to change that way of thinking. We need to realize that women can do thing sometimes better than men, and the other way around too. Women have their weaknesses, but we have our strengths too."

Rocio:

I share the idea that you have developed in this blog entry. I think that the author of this piece of writing has dealt with a topic that was very strong in those times, and it is still strong nowadays. I think in our society, women have certain disadvantages that men do not. Specifically, women have differences in terms of money, job opportunities, rights, etc. The problem is that the society does not do concrete actions regarding women rights. I think men and women have the same qualities to develop. Nonetheless, there are some areas in which men work better than women, and the other way around.
What I liked from this poet is that she could come up with the idea of women rights in those times. That current society was even stronger than the one are living today, so raise those types of ideas was something almost forbidden, but she did it anyway. Such a brave girl, don’t you think?
I enjoyed the theme you selected to develop. It is very controversial and it has a lot of edges to debate.