I think when my sister and I are bored we can be very dangerous.
Like how one day we started talking about how men were always the one inventing or discovering stuff.
Like how Thomas Edison invented the lightbulb.
Or how Benjamin Franklin discovered electricity.
Or Isaac Newton discovering the force of gravity.
The telephone? Invented by Alexander Graham Bell. If he didn't win the race to file in the patent for the telephone, the 'inventor' would have been another dude by the name of Elisha Gray. (I seriously thought Elisha Gray was a woman. Haih.)
The airplane? the Wright Brothers.
Windows PC? Bill Gates.
The iPod? A bunch of male engineers, headed by Steve Jobs.
The modern car? a German engineer named Karl Benz.
Even the microwave oven was invented by a man. Haih.
And let's not forget the genius Leonardo Da Vinci, who is a gay man, but still a man nonetheless.
And men did many 'firsts', too:
First person to go to space - Yuri Gagarin.
First person to set foot on the moon - Neil Armstrong.
First person to climb up Mount Everest - Sir Edmund Hillary.
And in history you have all these men like Napoleon Bonaparte, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Genghis Khan, Christopher Columbus, etc, etc.
And then it got us thinking: WHERE ARE THE WOMEN?
The only few names that we could think of were:
Hatshepsut - one of the most successful female pharaohs. Even then she's not the first.
Queen Isabella of Spain - Established the Spanish Inquisition. SCARY WOMAN.
Marie Antoinette - No idea why she's so famous, except for being the controversial Queen of France.
Amelia Earhart - First woman to fly a plane. And then she disappeared into oblivion. Literally.
Joan of Arc - led the french Army to some important victories. And then she got burned at the stake at NINETEEN YEARS OLD.
So Anis and I realised that we don't know that many famous women because most of the popular ones seem to be more infamous than famous. And the famous ones always end up having terrible luck at the end of their lives. -__-
And we have come to the conclusion that while all these men are busy inventing and conquering the world and whatnots, the women were too busy taking care of the households and raising babies for these men, hence why they did not have the time to go discovering things.
Oh how unfair this world was, once upon a time.
Like how one day we started talking about how men were always the one inventing or discovering stuff.
Like how Thomas Edison invented the lightbulb.
Or how Benjamin Franklin discovered electricity.
Or Isaac Newton discovering the force of gravity.
The telephone? Invented by Alexander Graham Bell. If he didn't win the race to file in the patent for the telephone, the 'inventor' would have been another dude by the name of Elisha Gray. (I seriously thought Elisha Gray was a woman. Haih.)
The airplane? the Wright Brothers.
Windows PC? Bill Gates.
The iPod? A bunch of male engineers, headed by Steve Jobs.
The modern car? a German engineer named Karl Benz.
Even the microwave oven was invented by a man. Haih.
And let's not forget the genius Leonardo Da Vinci, who is a gay man, but still a man nonetheless.
And men did many 'firsts', too:
First person to go to space - Yuri Gagarin.
First person to set foot on the moon - Neil Armstrong.
First person to climb up Mount Everest - Sir Edmund Hillary.
And in history you have all these men like Napoleon Bonaparte, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Genghis Khan, Christopher Columbus, etc, etc.
And then it got us thinking: WHERE ARE THE WOMEN?
The only few names that we could think of were:
Hatshepsut - one of the most successful female pharaohs. Even then she's not the first.
Queen Isabella of Spain - Established the Spanish Inquisition. SCARY WOMAN.
Marie Antoinette - No idea why she's so famous, except for being the controversial Queen of France.
Amelia Earhart - First woman to fly a plane. And then she disappeared into oblivion. Literally.
Joan of Arc - led the french Army to some important victories. And then she got burned at the stake at NINETEEN YEARS OLD.
So Anis and I realised that we don't know that many famous women because most of the popular ones seem to be more infamous than famous. And the famous ones always end up having terrible luck at the end of their lives. -__-
And we have come to the conclusion that while all these men are busy inventing and conquering the world and whatnots, the women were too busy taking care of the households and raising babies for these men, hence why they did not have the time to go discovering things.
Oh how unfair this world was, once upon a time.
1. elisha gray is the actualy inventor of the telephone, contrary to popular belief. he just couldn't afford to pay for the patent, hence losing the name as the inventor of the phone. sad but true.
ReplyDelete2. many women were very significant in history, but even then, most were western women of course. check out 'the dinner party', a famous sculptural artwork by a feminist a few decades back.
3. check out this link, it's a pretty awesome discussion:
http://ask.metafilter.com/44229/Why-the-dearth-of-female-philosophers
cheers :)
pls ignore the errors above. too lazy to fix them lol
ReplyDeleteMAKCIK. I can't believe you're still reading the blog. Lol.
ReplyDelete1. Pity how money makes the world goes round, doesn't it?
2. Ooohhhhhh....inneresting. I can't believe I forgot about Georgia O'Keeffe & Virginia Woolf!
3. That is an awesome discussion. Thanks makcik! =)