Sherman and Adelaide Haas in “Man to Man, Woman to Woman”, husbands and wives often have communication issues. That is why men and women talk about different topics. Base on some questions asked to different couple, men and women can rarely talk about the same topics like television, work and movies, but women will react more emotional than men. Then making fun of the other person opinion could easy lead to argument or fights. Men enjoy talking to other man because they don’t have to watch what they are saying and because freedom, playfulness and camaraderie.
For many years women have been trying to gain more respect from other women but mostly men, so that they can be equal to them. This happens in work, schools, and in the home Cool For You portrays a lot of patriarchy situations. For example when all the students prepare to go to the Arsencia Beach party, they chose a male rather than a female to pick up the liquor for them. This displays male dominance because they are taking control of getting the liquor. Another situation is When the mother feels that her son terry got suspended for drinking because he was suppose to play a male figure in the house since they have no father and he disappointed the family by getting drunk.
They have found that there is increasing family diversity and that women are not equally exploited in all types of family e.g. matrifocal or lesbian families. Nicholson (1997) believes women are often better off outside the traditional idea of family and Calhoun (1997) explains women cannot be exploited by men in lesbian families. This perspective is not easy to criticize because it recognizes differences in family life however it can be criticized for losing sight of continuing inequalities between men and women within the family. Radical feminists believe that the family plays a major role in maintaining the oppression of women in a male-dominated society.
The article talks about the gender role between men and women role during intimacy and how affectionate they can become. Some men loves attention and so does women too. On the other hand, although they both love this attention, they need to give each other breathing space so that they can bond deeper with each other to not finding flaws of a relationship. Being an attentive person and to someone needs at all time will be required, if it persist. But, what will happen when one day that attention cannot be given because one decide to do something differently, then the other person will feel like they are not being loved or wanted anymore.
He tried to save his wife from the humiliation and the torture she was about to endure, but she made it very clear through her trial how she felt about him. “‘I have my own man?” Mu glanced at her husband and smirked. She straightened up and said, “My man is nothing. He is no good, I mean in bed. He always comes before I feel anything.’” She treats her husband poorly in front of the whole town, even after he tried to help her out.
He let go of a girl he used to like, got in a fight with his roommate, and got kicked out of yet another school. Either this or the fact that Holden can’t really connect with anybody would make him feel like this. He feels although he’s living amongst “phony” people and can’t really talk to anyone. He feels very depressed while at Pency because of his inability to connect with anyone there, or because he’s being kicked out and will miss it. Holden decides to stay at a hotel instead where he can relax and not have to deal with anyone at Percy anymore.
She is hiding it from her husband because he didn’t let her write anything or do anything, because in Victorian times, women had less opportunity than men. Also women had to listen to what their husbands said as they were the heads of the house. The husband didn’t believe his wife which shows gender role and creates marital problem when he come to know that he was wrong about not believing her and she was mentally
She wanders from building to building claiming that she’s looking for Curley, when she actually just wants to have a conversation with anyone. The other men steer clear, out of fear that they may get fired by Curley’s dad, the boss, if his son happens to get jealous. Throughout the novel, the woman is dehumanized by the author, and is not even given a name. Although Steinbeck portrays Curley’s wife as a wandering harlot, her shattered dream of being a famous actress makes Curley’s wife seem utterly human, rather than the vile temptress the worker men make her out to be. “’She got the eye goin’ all the time on everybody… I don’t know what the hell she wants’” (51).
She is forced to stay in the house by her controlling husband Curley. Curley is insecure about his relationship with his wife, which causes him to be controlling, jealous, and mean. Curley’s wife uses flirting with the workers on the ranch as one way to help with her loneliness. She sees that Lennie is simple minded and so she feels that he is the only one she can talk about her problems with. She feels that no one else listens.
Different Styles Of Communication Between: Men and Women In the world, without importance what is the country exists the difference between men and women, principle in the styles of communication, this usually happen in families, couple and overall the society in general, most of women use to say what they really think about some situation, what they want and what they are waiting for while men hide their feeling, being more reserved about how they feel in different moments of their life and showing that they are very different than women in all the ways. Basically, the styles of communication between a woman and a man are about the body language. For example when a man gets in troubles with his girlfriend not most of them show what feel, even if They are sad or know that they are guilty about about what have happened and don’t pay too much Attention but it’s totally the opposite for women, because they really show with the body language How they feel, they use to tell their friends what’s going on in the relationship with their boyfriends and Try to look for the best solution for the problem between them and their boyfriends. Furthermore, the women’s style of communication commonly have to be by trying to dominate a communication in a good way and men don’t do this, they get angry easily without talking first or hear the other person’s point of view, they just argue back and a small problem make it bigger and bigger instead of finish it, where the styles of communication between men and women are not compatible because of how different they are. In Conclusion, the styles of communication between a woman and man result to have complications and relevant differences, such as women and men choice words, the loudness , the tendency to interrupt and more differences that in the real world is too visible and very