Chapter 2 Response

I enjoyed this reading but somethings upset me as a modern-day woman who grew up where I did. Some of the things were the fact that the daughters were like property that could be bought. I understand this on a very very minuscule level because my dad has a rule where if I date any boy he has to meet my dad and when I get married he has to ask my dad for permission. Although my dad does this he doesn’t get to chose the man for me or sell me off to any guy he wants. When they talked about a bride price it reminded me of Fiddler on the Roof when Lazar Wolf is bargaining with Tevye to marry Tzeitel. I did not agree with women getting married so young, well young in our society and culture. If we were following the same culture of that time I would be married with kids and not getting an important education. It’s hard to imagine that this continued long after Jesus’ time and is still happening today in the middle east and other places as well. I kind of want to see what it would be like to be a woman living in that time and culture, I feel terrible because they didn’t have the same privileges we do as women today. The culture in that time reminds me of the play I read Lysistrata which was about a woman who brings a bunch of other women together to protest against their boyfriends and husbands and withhold sex from them to stop the war they were having. One thing I was interesting was how it was nice to see where the tradition of a man carrying his wife across the threshold of the house. Overall I enjoyed learning more about this culture but wish it was different and it makes me appreciate the culture and time I live in.