Sex and Power in Chile
After I read the article “Sex and Power in Chile” I realized how much I did not know about that country. I also learned how much they have gone through as a country and how much Americans take for granted. It’s always great to see another country start and take charge. I like to see other countries making changes like electing a woman president and trying to grow for the better. Michelle Bachelet took the first step to help improve the live of woman and the people of Chile. She is showing the men of the country that woman are capable of doing things other then taking care of the home; Woman can help change and create a better Chile. Michelle Bachelet did experience her ups and downs with people criticizing and digging into her past. “She is a woman, she acts like a woman, and woman don’t know how to exert authority…..she is a socialist, agnostic, and daughter of a general assassinated by the dictatorship. She is separated, with children from different father; her youngest was born when she was single. She is seen as unpredictable in her friendly, feminine, maternal ways.” I still just see it as if the people elected her then I feel they are ready to see change. The part in the article that really interested me was the part about the book called “The Open Book of Love and Sex in Chile”. Chile is known to be a strict catholic country and finding out that the country is not so conservative after all is interesting. “Rajevic (author and journalist of the book The Open Book of Love and Sex in Chile) showed that Chileans aren’t ads conservative as believed; youth lose their virginity earlier that the Dutch; different family models exist; homosexuality, though illegal, is widely accepted……political powers for many years refuse to adopt a divorce law, although a majority of marriages had resulted in separations and almost half of all children were born outside of wedlock. It wasn’t unit 2004 that the divorce law finally passed…” Chile is going through a lot of different changes and by electing a female president show the start of it all. I feel that this is just the start for Chile and that we will see many more changes from them in the future.
http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?ID=1734
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That is so cool that Chile elected a female president. I would have assumed that the US would be the first to try electing a female for president. I notice that once people find one major difference in a governmental leader, they will tirelessly search for all of the things that are different and blame all that goes wrong on those few differences. It is ridiculous to try to judge how a person will do as a president based on whether they have kids, are married, are young, old; whatever! We aren't living in the past, and things are always changing! People should quit focusing on whether or not the new female candidate is married, and start focusing on things that effect how she might lead the country. (128)
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