In Susan Brownmiller's essay Femininity, she has ideas that are both modern and outdated. For the most part I agree with them, only because her thoughts coincide with how society views women today. Some of the thoughts she states only deal with society's views of woman in the past and present. But there is more to being feminine than just how society views it, I think she should look at how the XX chromosome is the only thing that determines whether or not you are feminine and how there's a difference between being feminine and looking/acting feminine. Just because someone doesn't look like a woman or sound like a woman doesn't mean they aren't a woman.
             I can recall way back in second grade, my class had a lady that came in and would bring us individually out into the hall to have us read to her. I still have a vivid image of this lady in my head even though it was from so long ago. The only reason why I can remember her is because she had a mustache. Women in today's society are frowned upon if they have any facial hair. This lady didn't care, or she had really bad eyesight so she couldn't see herself in the mirror. Just because she had a mustache does not make her any less of a woman, nor does it make her any less feminine. But due to the fact that societies views today have changed since long ago she would be considered less feminine. Only because she had a mustache; a manly facial feature, she might be called less of a woman but most definitely less feminine. A lot of people today are stuck up and don't care about others only themselves, but love to analyze and tare apart others defects to make themselves feel better.
             Brownmiller states in one of her paragraphs that she had a game called "set the table." She also says that she was her mom's helper. In society today as far as I know from experience, I don't think that there is a specified or...