Thursday, March 5, 2009
Blog 7
After reading chapter seven I learned that there are many women who get STD’s and feel ashamed. I could understand why they would feel that way but on the other hand there are a lot of people who are going through the same thing. We have unrealistic views about woman and it is extremely unfair to call a woman names and belittle her because she has made a mistake. I know a woman who got married and her husband gave her herpes. Herpes is something you can NOT get rid of and this is something that she will have to deal with her entire life. I tell this story because not everyone with a STD is promiscuous. I know that married people are not the majority of the cases but these cases do appear. There are people who think they are in a committed relationship and there partner isn’t truly committed. I think that it is unfair to judge one another. The woman that I know has great friends and a great family for support but not everyone has that. There are many groups and counselors that I think are a great way to understand and talk about your disease. I am a great person to talk to and I feel that I am a nonjudgmental, but when it comes to STD’s I honestly don’t know how they feel. I think talking to people that are in your situation is better and can help you out more than someone who doesn’t know where you are coming from!
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I agree. Women do get the stigma of "asking for it", when just like everything else, it takes two. I have a friend who's husband cheated and brought home an STD to her when she was pregnant. Luckily, it was curable, but she still suffered the indignity of knowing he could have infected her with something that may have affected her baby's health and her future as a mother. I hope that with the political advancements women are achieving, we will see new policies that will produce legal consequences for those who engage in unsafe sex outside of their marriages which is a legal union.
ReplyDeleteBarbara,
ReplyDeleteI totally agree and I definitely do think that people should not label someone promiscuous because they have a STD. You never know a person's situation so it is best that you do not judge them. STDs can happen to anyone and we should all be very supportive of each other. As a woman I would definitely be ashamed to have a STD because of the negative stigma that is put on women who have a sexually transmitted disease. If I knew someone with a STD,I would be very supportive because you never know if one day it will happen to you.