HW 22: Patriarchy

Woolf said that the paper in England proved patriarchy because it is proving that men have more power and are more important then women. "A film actress had been lowered from a peak in California and hung suspended in mid-air" (Woolf 33). After she says this quote, she talks about the man in charge of the paper and how he can control almost everything in the world except for how foggy it is. When she says "With the exception of the fog he seemed to control everything" (Woolf 34) it shows how much power everyone in England really believes how much power this man has over all of the people. Although women do not have as much power as the man and it is foolish for them to even wish they had that same power, it seems as if all men are always writing about women. So although women are not as "important" as men, people are always talking and writing about women as if the world revolves around them.

I went and looked at the New York Times and I do not think that it would give someone the idea that the US was ran like England under a patriarchy. On the front page of the paper, it does not focus much on women vs. men or anything along those lines but mostly on government related topics.