In a speech said by one of my dearest friends, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, (http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/stanton.htm) titled “The Destructive Male”, I couldn't agree with her more. With how times are now in the 1860s-1870s, women are not looked at as strong minded or independent people. We are looked at as weak little human beings that need a man to live the life we're supposed to. Her speech is an exact description on how a woman must act in today’s society to be respected. She shows how women can’t have their own opinions or do the things they want, because people they are not as strong as men. Stanton’s speech shows how this is unacceptable, therefore we must stop the stereotyping of women now.

It breaks my heart to see women who don't stick up for themselves because they think that they are wrong. Women tend to feel insecure when they are constantly told they aren't and never will be as great as a man. We as women do not need a man to tell us what we can do and what we cannot do. In Elizabeth’s speech, she says, “To keep a foothold in society, woman must be as near like man as possible, reflect his ideas, opinions, virtues, motives, prejudices, and vices. She must respect his statutes, though they strip her of every inalienable right, and conflict with that higher law written by the finger of God on her …show more content…
If people would simply give us a chance, they would see that we as women know as much if not more about some subjects than men do. If women were given the chance, they would be able to show that they are just as intelligent as everyone else. I have comprehended that what Stanton's speech is undoubtedly trying to say, is that women don't need a man to express their true feelings and thoughts about anything at all. We have just as much strength and knowledge as men do, so society needs to stop stereotyping women and citizens need to start looking at all that women have to