The Role of Women

Just a journal I wrote for my comp 1 class... My teacher thought I had a very unique veiw on the subject:P lol


Were we women really made to be slaves in what used to be a male dominant society, and in some parts of the world still is? According to the Brule Sioux Myth we were made even lower than animals, yet I believe there is another side to this than most men would like us to believe. In Leonard Crow Dog's narration of his "dream" the author calls "Sun Creation", he relates a bit of dialogue between the sun and the woman that he created that I believe makes an important point. Leonard Crow Dog tells the reader, " You are the caretaker of the generations, you are the birth giver," the sun told the woman. " You will be the carrier of this universe" (42). Why would the sun say this to something he just created last? Men and some women believe that because we were created last we are inferior, but let us look at it from another angle.

The sun perhaps left his most important task for last; he wanted to have everything ready for his best addition to the new world. He knew he needed somewhere for the woman to stay, someone to protect her, something to eat, and something to care for. He needed everything perfect just like she would be. Then he gave her the most important job of all, for she was to carry the universe. There is no way anyone or anything that needed to accomplish that should be slaving over someone that took advantage of out care nature and misunderstood our meaning in life. Men are to be the caretakers and women to be carriers, not slaves. chanel handbags were made with the desire to care for things, to ensure the survival of our species, and nowhere in our being is the desire or capability to be slaves. Why would the sun create us last if not to ensure our survival? We were not made to be slaves because we are the most important and precious work the Sun ever did, and that is why we were made below or after everything else.






Work Cited

Crow Dog, Leonard. "Brule Sioux Myth: Sun Creation"
Writing on the River: An Anthology for Composition 1 at Chattanooga State
Technical Community College. Eds.English Faculty and Staff at Chattanooga
State Technical Community College. Boston:McGraw-Hill, 2007: 37-44