Women & Patriarchy
You can’t do it because you are a woman. You can’t do the best as I do because I’m a man and you’re a woman. You can’t think in this way like me because you’re a woman and I’m a man. You have no way to beat me because you’re a woman and I’m a man. Although you can do everything a man can do, you usually have no way to get the opportunity to do it because you’re a woman. How do you think that women are usually devalued even though they have as much power and intelligence as men? Along the way I have studied crime fiction in this semester, one thing I always see in the lessons is Patriarchy, devaluing women.
A Scandal in Bohemia is the first fiction that I have studied in this semester and I found something quite bad in this story. The hero of this story, Sherlock Holmes, has some bad attitudes to women. His thought about women is like reducing women’s value. He thinks he looks more clever than many other women, especially Irene Adler, his mission target. This attitude not only expresses from Holmes but also other men, especially the one who has more power than others like the king of Bohemia. All the time when a man has to face women, the first thought of them is always to devalue the women for making himself the power.
When are women unlocked from the men’s bad attitude? There is only one way to get it. That is to make themselves get to the top that is far from the men’s standing points. It is like when Holmes respects Irene after showing her intelligence that beat Holmes’ investigation indisputably. Why does it occur the first time they meet? Why do women have to prove their value to men for getting respect? This is what this fiction shows us about the attitude to women, and sends this one to a new generation.
The bad attitudes about women are walking along the period of time to the present. They can affect people’s present attitude to women, too. Around the world, we can see the male creatures who try to be on the top by devaluing female creatures. This is the bad point of this story that I have found.
