Third entry

As I think of the great social injustices rife in our world, regardless of many great actions which have been undertaken to achieve some sense of equality, and consider it in relation to the tale of the Sabine women, I am certain that in some ways women never will be visualised as the equals of men.
Images of the perfect housewife still circulate to express feminine ideals, and although businesswomen may hold a stronger image of power and credibility within the workplace they still become mothers, they still have to juggle the responsibilities of marriage, child rearing with their career persona.
Unlike the times of ancient mythology women are no longer stereotypically the fair, pure and neutral sex. Women are involved in acts of violence and death of their own accord, and in this turbulent and bitter world of ethnic, religious and cultural hatred they, women and infants are no longer an image of purity and innocent mediation that exempts them from the harm and horrors of the conflicts they may try to prevent.
It is with a sense of irony that I determine that the righteous and maternal image of the Sabine women, combined with the stereotypical, clichéd images of women within contemporary society results in the woman, tragically powerless and pathetic amongst the bloodthirsty world of men.