HW22:Who decides?

For homework 22 I chose to do the patriarchy option. Woolf admits her feelings towards the English society very clearly in chapter two. I felt that she strongly believed that she lived in a patriarchal society. "England is under a rule of a patriarchy. Nobody in their senses could fail to detect the dominance of the professor." (Woolf pg. 33) Woolf is symbolizing a male as the professor in this category, which broadens her anger to all males. Woolf wonders why men get all the glory in her society why are they the primary role in all affairs? "His was the power and the money and the influence. He was the proprietor of the paper and its editor and sub-editor. He was the foreign secretary and the judge. He was the cricketer; he owned the racehorses and the yachts. He was the director of the company that pays two hundred percent to its shareholders. He left millions to charities and colleges that were ruled by himself. He will decide if the hair on the meat axe is human; he it is who will acquit or convict the murderer and hang him, or let him go free. With the exception of the fog he seemed to control everything"(Woolf pg.34) I deciphered this paragraph as Woolf completely bashing males of all kind. Her contempt toward all men is demonstrated in full force. Woolf wants so badly to be considered just as equal as all men and have just an equal role in society as they do. After reading a variety of articles on the Boston globe's web page I have to admit that I'm surprised at my conclusion. We do appear to still live in a patriarchal society. Not to any extremes as it used to be, but that type of society is still lingering. The globe appeared to have many sports stories. Such as of course the Red Sox and Patriots. Both these sports have only male players, and coaches. In my opinion that could give off the illusion that our society is dominated by males. Also, the political stories mostly involve males. There were cover stories that did involve women but a male was closely linked behind. This was surprising to me, I was under the impression that we lived in a more balanced society. I was surprised to find that it is still not a 50, 50 situation.