Jiggy 4/27

This weeks class showed the fustrations that women must feel in everyday situations by the silencing of the men in the class. I found the experiment to be affective in annoying the men and giving alittle taste of the struggles of the women in our western culture. I did have many problems with it, it was by far not perfect. For one the experiment showcased the instant abuse of power by women. The experiment should have showed that once power was givin to the women that they were more responcible then men have been, but it was the oppisite. Once in possession of the power they quickly began to like the feeling, keeping the male voice surpressed. This shows how it is human nature to hold and keep power, maybe for once women can see that the power of voice is not something to give up. I dont think that there is any setting, however, where the female voice is completly silenced in our modern world. The issue is more of speaking out and up to the ideas that females have. I could have spoken on thursdays class, the power to speak was only taken away in the written rule sence. Speach is powerful and can at no time in our culture are women asked not to speak, they just dont speak up. I believe that the experiment can be useful but also is a product of a male dominated society. The experiment was put on by Dr. Casey and without his permission would have never taken place. This further takes the side of a male dominated soceity were the male makes and decides the rules. The real world meaning to an experiment like that would have been if Dr. Casey had said nothing and the girls in the class said that they wanted and took control. This is what the real world is really like, having to step up against authority and male domination to get a female voice heard. The world is not a classroom in many cases and the ability to have experiments is a luxury we pay 45,000 a year to have. In order to make real change the urge to speak out and up has to come from within the female voice and push society to a new and greater level.