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Book Post 1: My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem

I chose to read the book titled My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem. I chose this book among our three options because I was very interested in reading about Steinem's experiences on the road. I've never been very interested in either science or farming but have always enjoyed reading about the real life experiences of people who have made in difference in the world and that made this book an obvious choice for me. In addition to being interested in her life experiences, I also love to travel and it's something that I hope to continue to do later in life and I'm hoping to get some added motivation to travel and additional travel ideas from reading this book. I'm a strong advocate that life is much more about experiences than material goods and I have a strong feeling that Steinem shares that belief with me as well.



After reading the prologue for this book I can confidently say that choosing this book was the right choice for me. The prologue was a brief story of her time traveling in South Dakota and finding out that she was there the same time as an annual biker rally named "Sturgis." Steinem wrote about her previous misconceptions about people in biker gangs and how they "travel in packs, treat women like possessions, and may see other women as sexual fair game." Steinem admitted that after a few interactions with both men and women in these biker gangs that she had judged them too soon and that many of them were very kind hearted people who just enjoyed motorcycles. I've always believed that stereotyping people is too prevalent in our society and that we shouldn't judge books by their covers. Steinem seems to realize this and I'm looking forward to more stories like this one as I read the rest of My Life on the Road.

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