Man vs Woman
Man vs. Woman
Formerly, a man has always been given a reputation of being superior to a woman. In some regions and cultures, this is still applicable, and many of the citizens in these areas question why it is that women are degraded. The real question is: what does it really mean to be a man, and a woman?
When one thinks of the word “man”, usually the first thing that pops into his or her head is an image of a big, bulky body charging at his enemy on the battlefield, because our society’s traditional interpretation is that manhood is linked with bravery in battle. Rudyard Kipling’s poem “If” names a few characteristics, and he says that if a man assumes them, then he is in fact called a man. Real men are those who can get back up when they get knocked down, as Kipling wrote, “If you can make one heap of all your winnings and risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, and lose, and start again at your beginnings and never breathe a word about your loss”.
Now when one thinks of the word “woman”, the idea that occurs to him or her, which is rather insulting, is an image of a female, cooking, doing the laundry, and cleaning the house. But is that really all what women do? Women were always told that they are incapable of undertaking certain tasks that men do, and they are continuously made inferior to men. That is proven by just the title of Simone De Beauvoir’s book “The Second Sex”, where it’s referring to women as a second sex, thereby giving “The Primary Sex” to men by default. Simone says this to ridicule the traditional idea of the superiority of man. She even compared men and women to two electric poles, man representing the positive and the neutral, and woman representing the negative.
There is always a debate whether men or women are more powerful and courageous than the other. Consider Jacques-Louis David’s painting Oath of the Horatii. The painting depicts the scene from Roman legend that shows a father offering swords to his three sons who are ready
Formerly, a man has always been given a reputation of being superior to a woman. In some regions and cultures, this is still applicable, and many of the citizens in these areas question why it is that women are degraded. The real question is: what does it really mean to be a man, and a woman?
When one thinks of the word “man”, usually the first thing that pops into his or her head is an image of a big, bulky body charging at his enemy on the battlefield, because our society’s traditional interpretation is that manhood is linked with bravery in battle. Rudyard Kipling’s poem “If” names a few characteristics, and he says that if a man assumes them, then he is in fact called a man. Real men are those who can get back up when they get knocked down, as Kipling wrote, “If you can make one heap of all your winnings and risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, and lose, and start again at your beginnings and never breathe a word about your loss”.
Now when one thinks of the word “woman”, the idea that occurs to him or her, which is rather insulting, is an image of a female, cooking, doing the laundry, and cleaning the house. But is that really all what women do? Women were always told that they are incapable of undertaking certain tasks that men do, and they are continuously made inferior to men. That is proven by just the title of Simone De Beauvoir’s book “The Second Sex”, where it’s referring to women as a second sex, thereby giving “The Primary Sex” to men by default. Simone says this to ridicule the traditional idea of the superiority of man. She even compared men and women to two electric poles, man representing the positive and the neutral, and woman representing the negative.
There is always a debate whether men or women are more powerful and courageous than the other. Consider Jacques-Louis David’s painting Oath of the Horatii. The painting depicts the scene from Roman legend that shows a father offering swords to his three sons who are ready