Damsels Overcome

The experiences we have, the attitudes accepted, and beliefs trusted impair successes in our lives. The attitude enforced by parents, schools, marriages, religions, professions, through social norms, we believed to be real.

My impairment was “males got everything. ”This attitude not from my dad, as fair as he was to me; t his attitude came through my mother. Her brothers went to high school, not her. Her stepfather sent my mother went off to work at age fourteen; she received no chance while her brothers granted privileges. My mom's step dad's attitude greatly impacted me. My grandmother waited on this grumpy, bossy, older man. He lost his engineering career; he ran over a woman while courting my grandmother. She served this negative man, which affected my roots, my standing as a girl. I loved my grandmother as an inspiration, and she served the male.

The damsels in folktales enlightened progress for survival by their coping skills. Knowing and understanding their attitudes are gifts. Damsels used skills to overcome hardships. Today, the damsels' of folklore strengthen my journey through the male dominates in society.