HW 22: Patriarchy is in England

After reading the second chapter in Virginia Woolfe's, "A Room of One's Own" I found that patriarchy is certainly still alive. Men are well known for and still hold the role of being the dominant figure. Virginia Woolfe argues and ponders this disposition through examining such questions which prove that there is patriarchy. When she makes her way to the British library she finds that there were numerous books written on females, and the lack of books written on males, yet the books on women speak of the inferiority of women in society. She becomes angry at the pieces of work she reads, because the author speaks in a certain tone and presents and depicts women on the low end of the hierarchy with men vs. women. When Woolfe read the headlines of a paper she spotted on the chair at the British museum she again had anger filled inside of her. Each headline presented a male dominant side, portraying women poorly. "The most transient visitor to this planet, I thought, who picked up this paper could not fail to be aware, even from this scattered testimony, that England is under the rule of patriarchy." (p. 33) She explains how men are portrayed in the paper as more important then women and have more power. The men in England are controlling what is written, which is often speaking poorly about women, like the author of the newspaper, of what is spoken. I went onto The New York Times website and found that England's way of perceiving women seems to be different then the way The New York Times portray women and men. There did not seem to be any controversial issues that would give a transient visitor to our planet the impression that the United States is a patriarchy, yet if a transient visitor was to have a glance at the way England presents their women, it would be evident that they are still under the rule of patriarchy.