Feminist 9/9 Response

When I was reading Manifesto of the Futurist Women, it raised many different emotions that I didn't think I would think of. I guess I went in reading with a blank slate, trying to be as unbiased as I could be about the topic of whenever I read men's approach on how women should be. Hopeful, but ready to take on what Marinetti had to offer, I was not surprised again. It was interesting at first when he seemed to be talking of a more equality approach and saying that women and men are equal, but then he went on to talk about how women are "the octopuses of the hearth." How contradictory that it is the feminine qualities that make people weak. When he talks of femininity and masculinity being the division of humanity, I feel that it's just another bolder excuse of saying that the qualities women hold are their weaknesses, especially when he says something to the extent of women possessing both men and women virtues and in the absense of one becomes a girl, whereas the men who do not possess one or the other is not a boy, but a brute? How does that even work? He is not a boy, but a brute whereas a woman becomes a girl? When I read Feminist Manifesto, I felt motivated by the choice of words, the presentation of the piece but also offended at the same time because of the accusations I found. I wasn't surprised when finishing the readings that this viewpoint of women still exists today....