Barbara Ehrenreich-What I've learned from Men

Let me begin by stating that I loved the way Barbara ended this essay. It was brilliant, and I agree completely with every word she has to say here. Women do need to stop acting so nice. There are times that I catch myself being too nice. Living in Hialeah you get the constant jerks throwing nasty comments at you as a form of flirting and sometimes they go too far. There has been plenty of times where I have felt that I've wanted to just go right to one of them and smack them because they can be so vulgar but of course being ladylike I do not resort to violence and just walk away pretending I did not hear a word this jerk just said. Television and movies show you exactly what Barbara is talking about succesful women. They do tend to be emberrased about their success and I do question why. Over all we need to stop thinking in situations as much as we do, we over analyze things so that we won't go too far so we may always look like a lady in the end because at the end you are not looking like a lady you are just being the weaker sex. I am not saying let's act exactly like men because in all honesty I would never want to be like a man, but I say we steal some of their traits so that we wont be looked down on.