So, what do I know about feminism?

With the story of The Awakening, written by Kate Chopin, we get introduced to this concept of Feminism, which according to Mr. Tangen, is not about women trying to be tomboys. Starting with the first pages of the book, we get introduced with something related to the topic with the main characters, Mr and Mrs Pontellier:

''You are blunt beyond recognition'', he added , looking at his wife as one looks at a valuable piece of personal property which has suffered some damage.'' Pg. 15

We see here, clearly that Edna's husband tends to see his wife from a sexual-objective point of view, which is something that we see commonly in the attitude of various men around the world. Feminism tends to criticize heavily those type of superficial men, which have been common since the dawn of times.

I guess that Feminist women tend to find men that look for women more for their moral values and personality and not their physical appearance. One could argue that most women tend to go for those kinds of guys, but end up falling in love with the opposite-superficial one, as my best friend argues, concluding that all women are ''bitches''. I always tell him that he has to be more patient, and that the girls he likes are ''bitches'' to him, and not everyone follows that path.

Another passage from Chapter 4 goes to see another side of women, one that is criticized apparently by the main character. Edna considers herself not as a mother-women, since probably she has never seen herself as that particular stereotype which her husband wants her to be.

In short, Mrs. Pontellier was not a mother-woman. The mother-women seemed to prevail that summer at Grand Isle. It was easy to know them , fluttering abut with extended , protecting wings when any harm, real or imaginary, threatened their precious brood. They were women who idolized children, worshiped their husbands, and esteemed it a holy privilege to efface themselves as individuals and grow wings as mysterious angels. Pg. 26

Ok, has anybody asked himself what the hell does the picture above have to do with anything? Well, it's somewhat related to the Feminist ideals, but probably taken to extreme. The Nightsisters, as pictured above, are a group of witches how use the dark side of the force to forge magic, which are never mentioned or appear in the Star Wars movies. They take place mostly in the Star Wars Expanded Universe comic books and novels, but have become very important in the Star Wars The Clone Wars TV series that will end its Fourth Season this Friday.

The Nightsisters are known for having lived in the red planet Dathomir, in which they controlled a group of men known as the Nightbrothers, and are treated as their slaves. We see here, how this society tends to portray them as a highly feminist society, in which they used them only for labor and sexual purposes. Once one of the Nightbrothers had a child, he would usually get killed. And one of them, turned out to be a child known as Maul. His mother wanted his son Maul, to have a different life from the one of the Nightbrothers clan, and made probably an even worse decision: give him to the evil Sith Lord Darth Sidious aka Palpatine. Darth Maul would then come to become a brutal Sith warrior, who got cut in half by Obi-Wan in Naboo. He somehow survived and made it to the junk world Lotho Minor, but that's another story.

Throughout the book, we will see how The Nightsisters and The Awakening portray their views of Feminism in similar or different ways.