The Frailty of Women?

The women in literature has been hard for me to connect with. As a man I don't have to go through the struggles and hardships of a woman. What I have noticed in the unit was the men were very constricting of women and made the women in thier lives seem inferior and frail. For example in The Yellow Wallpaper the narrator is seen by her husband as frail and can't handle stress. The rest cure was basically designed for women who "couldn't handle stress". In society today this isn't seen as much as it used to. Before the feminist and equal rights movements women were seen in a bad light. They were seen as inferior to men in all capacities and could barely think for themselves. Going back to The Yellow Wallpaper, the narrator was held back by her husband and was claimed by insanity. She was ok before the       great rest cure but it made her go insane. The cure that was made for women was making their condition even worse. If everyone knew that women could handle stress and they just needed something to occupy their time with like men then the world would've been a more accepting place. Even today some people think women as frail and inferior. I have had the great honor of growing up in a house full of strong women who would laugh at being called inferior or frail. The way women are portrayed and treated in the novels as inferior or frail is unfair but in the end they are shown to be the strong individuals that they are. This connection might be weak but again it is hard to write about issues that don't really pertain to myself.