In James Fallows piece, “Throwing Like a Girl,” he explores the idea of why the phrase ‘you throw like a girl’ is used in the wrong context. He first talks about a famous duo, Bill and Hillary Clinton, being photographed mid pitch at baseball home openers. Looking at the photo, Hillary’s throw looks extremely awkward whereas Bill’s looks normal. With the photos side by side, people would say that Hillary is throwing like a girl. However, this phrase has a misconception, which Fallows revels throughout his piece. He talks about how from a young age boys have learned that doing something like a girl is wrong, therefore ‘throwing like a girl’ makes the guy look week.…
The first main point is the fact that women today have more power even though the biological fact that male are the aggressors is true, but women have the power to make decisions when it comes to a “yes” or “no” response. With women having the power, this will confuse men about what is right and what kind of behavior is acceptable when it comes to real rape and real harassment. When it comes to real rape and real harassment, people have their own interruptions of both. His sub claim is approached by people who are characterized as normal; male-female conduct as sexual harassment then people not only identifies the relations between the sexes, but interprets true sexual harassment.…
"The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down" the book by Anne Fadiman is an interesting book that contains different situations where different cultures and traditions clashes as a result of different barriers. In this brief work I tried to shed light on some of these barriers that could exist in our clinical practice and how these barriers could be understood in different cultures. On the other hand, there is no doubt that cultural differences play an important role in problems analysis as well as the illness differential diagnosis, that is why it is important for policy makers and legislatives to set goals that help in including people from diverse cultures into health care systems such as the one of the United States of America. Finally,…
Methodology: The sources that I intend on using for this assignment are reader’s journals from Galileo and other similar sites, that are written on “Story of an Hour”, and also secondary source books from my school library. The articles that I plan to utilize are the ones that have feminist references to “Story of an Hour”. I will those references in particular to support my argument. In addition I intend on using is a former reader response I have written on the character of Mrs. Mallard. By using this reader response as another secondary source, I am going…
It has been brought to my attention that a parent is concerned that I’m including Julia Serano’s Whipping Girl in the Intro to Women’s and Gender Studies course I am teaching. While I want to respect this parent’s opinions and desires regarding the education of their child, I will do everything in my power to keep this text in the syllabus. The unit I have built around it is essential in promoting understanding of key concepts, including gender theories, identity and social location, and privilege and oppression, thus reflecting the ideas of other important texts we read and the educational goals of this course as a whole. More importantly, it is a unit that encourages empathy while deterring oppressive assumptions in regards to how we structure…
Stereotyping females creates a domino effect that leads to maintaining gender inequality. The film industry's long standing portrayals of female stereotypes have socially normalized these ideas. Normalizing females stereotypes pose an issue for women because it implies inferiority in the community. Socially accepted ideas seem to be normal and become strange to contradict. Thus, causing the continuation of gender inequality. Gwyn Kirk and Margo Okazawa-Rey's book, "Women's Lives: Multicultural Perspectives" explains why circumstances that cause inequality are effective. "Maintaining systems of inequality requires ongoing objectification and dehumanization of subordinate peoples. Appropriating their identities is a particularly effective method of doing this, for it defines who the subordinated group/ person is or ought to be" (Kirk & Okazawa-Rey, 2013, p. 106). The passage explains that a method that maintain inequality need to portray the oppressed as either objects and less than human because it effectively labels the oppressed. The film industry's use of stereotypes for storytelling has become a method of inequality that labels females as inferior. As the film industry continues to use female stereotypes the more normal the idea of female inferiority in the social community will become. Ultimately continuing gender…
His judgmental tone can be seen on many places in his essay through his choices of words. He used “long and windy” when he described a quote of “Why Women Can’t Have It All.” He also used the word “paleolithic” when he described the people who think that the man who takes six weeks of paid leave for new fathers is “acting like a women.” His logical fallacies can be also seen when he tries to make an argument or a point. His first logical fallacies was sentimental appeal. The way he used it was by describing a baby with “… ten fuzzy fingers and ten fuzzy toes and a tiny crescent-moon mouth…”(697). He used the baby description to get the attention of the readers and makes them agree with his argument that men and women are equal. Then he used the appeal to false authority when he said that “[two] men wrote that, incidentally, which must make it true, and among those who traffic in gender studies, it is something of a truth…”(701). It can be noticed that he tries to convince the readers by saying that because two people said that statement then it must be true. Also, he used a hasty generalization by saying that “…men are lazy and/or have a higher threshold for living in filth…”(705). He said that men are lazy which is a wrong generalization, and there is not a real study that shows that men are lazy. Then Dorment used a Bandwagon appeal example by…
Womens are view like someone who is only for have babies take care of the house and childrens. This is a stereotype because women are more that a machine for make babies and cleaning the house. What role does gender play in this text? Observe how gender stereotypes might be reinforced or undermined.…
We think this has misogynistic attitudes as he objectifies women and referes to them only by their physical features. He also reduces her to her \"fur gloves\".…
However, Meade makes a point about the role of deviance in the societies. Deviance is defined as any behavior that violates social norms. When women are naturally gifted or better than men in their own field of expertise, this causes the men to doubt their own manhood. This is one of the reasons why men who conform most closely to accepted “temperament for males in their society are most suspicious and hostile towards deviating women who in spite of a contrary training, show the same temperament traits” (306). It is certainly possible for one to be female and identity themselves as masculine or to be a male and identity themselves as feminine. For example, gender roles might include women investing in domestic life and men investing in the worker role. The concept of gender identity is also different from gender stereotypes, which are shared views of personality traits often tied to one's gender such as instrumentality in men and expressiveness in women.…
While the glass ceiling hangs over our heads we must forget the saying that “those in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.” Women face an invisible barrier between the limited space they inhabit and the space that is actually available to them. The glass ceiling is traditionally defined as “an unofficially acknowledged barrier to advancement in a profession, especially affecting women and members of minorities” (Merriam-Webster). I argue that through Young’s analysis of the modalities specific to feminine spatiality, it becomes clear that the glass ceiling exists not only in professional environments but throughout a woman’s life. Women experience space as enclosed or confining, the severance between a “here” and a “yonder” creates a disconnect…
In Anne Fadiman’s book, The Spirit Catches You and you Fall Down is a book about the Hmong people coming to America and how they are treated in the American Health System. This book is an amazing book and is extremely intriguing and helps you learn more about culture sensitivity. This book focuses on culture sensitivity. It talks about a specific family known as the Lee family and how they struggle to communicate their beliefs on treatments. It also focuses on language barriers that are presented by refugees and foreigners. The Lees know their daughter has a serious illness and should be treated, but they are not sure how to administer the drugs the doctor prescribes. This book also provides substantial information on the history of the Hmong…
Good morning my fellow year 9 & year 10 peers. Today I'll be talking about the hot topic of "Gender roles limit and restrict". Have you ever felt painstakingly sickened of being told that women and girls in today’s patriarchal society are considered soft, delicate, weak and homebound? I don’t know about you; however I find this stereotypical assumption demeaning and unrealistic. My English class is doing a unit called ‘Stepping out of male stereotypes’. The purpose of this unit is to heighten our knowledge of the restrictive nature of gender stereotypes, with a main focus on masculinity, so that we are able to recognise and evaluate gender stereotypes when they are presented to us in texts such as ‘Touch Me’ by James Moloney, and the teen pic ‘She’s the Man’ directed by Andy Fickman.…
The novel that I choose to analyzed is “there and now” by Linda Lael Miller. It is a fictional romance novel that could be considered a traditional romance novel, in that it embodies many gendered stereotypes that are frequently associated but males and females. One of the reasons why this particular genre (romance) was picked was because romance novels is often one of the most read genre among young girls and women, therefore one can conclude that romance novels are influential in the development on gendered stereotypes. Now and There plays many of these gendered stereotypes both for men and woman, such as a man must be masculine and a woman feminine. These differences of males and females are very deeply engrained into our lives, “we were taught that women are more emotional, more in need of security, love and attention, more interested in family than in individual successes, and in generally we were taught that women are people whose self esteem are wrapped up in relationships and in doing for others. Men were taught to be more explicitly individualistic, more aggressive, more independent, and people who self esteem were based on social successes and being effective leaders”1. These testaments of masculinity must be proven by men in scenarios such as taking care of a woman, being strong physically and mentally, having money, being dominant and asserting control. While as a woman much be feminine in order to prove her femininity and woman hood, she must be strong and not so strong that she is stronger than the men in her lives, she must be smart but not too smart, she must be soft spoken and docile. She must be the ideal woman, beautiful, a house wife, in the idea that she must be able to cook and care for a man and children if they are present before she thinks about herself, to put it clearly a woman must be a care giver and selfless while as…
Throughout this reading, De Gouges never shows her true identity of herself being a woman. She covers it up so men don’t just assume that the writing is biased and shouldn’t be taken seriously just because a woman wrote it. The goal of the overall piece of work is to influence the society as a whole, which means both men and women must buy into this idea of women being “equal” (De Gouges 176). In her writing, De Gouges seems to question how men have been treating women and if they have the right to do this just because of their gender. For example, De Gouges says, “Man, are you capable of being just” (De Gouges 176). She doesn’t necessarily explicitly say that men have mistreated women in this paragraph, but she questions them and brings up…