This One Summer: The Negative Effects Of Feminism

The depression of Mary caused by the abusement of the Queen mother is a negative impact of sexist opinions. Queen mother of the king says to Mary serve her husband by giving an heir to him and comments that women cannot have babies just like ham without the ability to lay eggs. Unfortunately, the couple just cannot succeed to deliver a child. Queen mother not only urges Mary to have a baby but also looks down on her and treats her meanly. Though queen mother’s words are so mean and humiliating, Mary could not do anything. Women even nobles and royals cannot escape from the sexist ideas that an essential way that women could contribute to the family is to have a baby. Influenced by the sexism, Queen mother hold a sexist view that value of a woman is nothing but to give birth to a baby. In addition, women’s positions could only be strengthened by comforting to traditional rules in the sexist world at that time. Feeling guilty all the time, Mary was depressed by her infertility. She thinks that she is not good enough and there is something wrong about herself. This is an example of how sexist ideas make bad influence of women’s emotion. In This One Summer, the girl who is pregnant before marriage and Rose’s mother who could not have babies after accidental abortion are going through great depression and anxiety(Tamaki, 2014). Their stresses are not coming from themselves, rather is the view of others that scares them. The sexist ideas make these women feel guilty and have no self-confident about themselves. Jenny, the girl who is pregnant, however, father of the baby does not admit the baby, feels she is too
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