My Response to Grace's Blog 4: Cecilia

As like many others, I love the HIMYM connection. I think its great that we can find so many little connections in the things we see and hear today. Your ideas about why Cecilia was pursued the way she was was really helpful. Since we have read the book by Socolow, I have been looking much closer into how women were treated in Latin American countries, and while we saw a lot of examples from other time periods, we don't know much about this more current period. My real question is whether the same values that were applied to women back in colonial society are used in this period. I would have to believe that the expectations of women would have loosened a bit, just like they have sense then, so do women have more freedom to do as they please? Mercedes runs a household and is very active in society, yet she is and has not married (that I remember). Women were not given that much freedom before, yet she has it.