Final Short Response: 12-07-10

Cynthia Enloe begins her book, “The Curious Feminist” by exploring people’s curiosity, moreover, people’s lack of curiosity and how it pertains to patriarchy. She brings up some really interesting ideas about how certain people’s use of words like, “Natural”, “Always”, and “Tradition” keeps people from being curious. They hear these words and feel they don’t need to investigate certain things that are said. Enloe then goes on to talk about Patriarchy and how it has constructed basically are whole country and how it is not challenged enough. I think this is really good point made by Enloe, a lot of people take for granted stuff that is said and don’t challenge it because it’s a “tradition” even though it may be wrong. In the following chapter Enloe goes on to talk about being "surprised" by things said by fellow people. In simpler terms I think this just means that people need to admit they don't know somethings. This is a good point I know a lot of people, including myself, who just go along with things people say even if they don't know what they are saying. I thought this was a great way to end the class because it's kind of a beginning to an end. These chapters raise a lot of the same questions that we've been exploring in class like what role patriarchy has in our society and how it effects everyone.