Blog 2 Interview

I interviewed a dear friend of mine. Her name is Mildred and she is 81 and is living in a nursing home. When I first asked her if I could talk to her to as an assignment for this course she was reluctant. She didn't feel that she would be "smart enough" to interview for a college course. So I took a different approach and just talked to her about being a women. She said she could do that. She said she never heard about feminism until the 80's because she lived on a farm where she took care of about 50 heads of cattle, tended to a garden that fed her family of 5, kept house, made most of the clothes her children wore, and oh yeah, she raised 3 kids as well. Women's issues were never important to her because she had her own life to worry about. Mildred had one daughter who she raised to be independent and not as self-sacrifice. She wanted her daughter to get married and experience love for the purpose of love. Mildred will openly tell everyone that she remained married because that was the only way she could afford to raised her kids. Mildred said she still doesn't like the way women are treated because she see's her granddaughters working full time, taking care of the children, the house, the finances and everything else. She feels like "feminism" has only moved backward in the domestic realm because men don't even take care of the finances and is given kudos if he even mows the lawn. For Mildred, a spirited women of 81, feminism still has a domestic realm that needs to be conquered before the public realm.