Post six: Interpretation

Interpretation:

I’m not quite sure how to explain my experience or reaction after reading “When It Changed” because everything came so unexpected to me. While reading this story it seems that men are the dominant one and women are not. The men try to come in and take over and rule their world, when the women are doing perfectly fine without them. Who cares about the society norm, if a women wants to be in charge she should be allowed to. I like how “When It Changed” is different from other stories. These women don’t believe in having men around, hence they consider them aliens, but also they depend on one another. The women of this planet know what they are doing and how to keep their world running smoothly. They have figured out ways to reproduce without using men, they raise their children just as they would if there were a man in the house, and they don’t care about the society norm. Because these women took control and believed in one another, made this story interesting to me, I like how it was not original and reminded me that there is no norm, we can do whatever the hell we want (well kind of).

Anyways, when the men come to their world and try to tell them that they need to have men in their lives, and need to reproduce the right way, it made me angry. No woman needs a man in her life, especially the women of Whileaway, because they have gone almost 30 generations without them. Needless to say this story at times did make me feel a little uncomfortable, but I liked it at the same time. It made me think outside the box more, and I wasn’t so quick to judge the women, because they had good morals and were happy with their way of living. Other stories that we have read these past weeks were just as good and interesting to me, especially “The Fact of Blackness”. Let me tell you, talking about that in class, was a bit weird to me. “When It Changed” for some reason just grabbed my attention the most, and changed my outlook on certain things.