Ehab Degachi Christopher Litman ENG 2150 December 9th, 2012 Mayberry’s article focuses around discussing the role that males play in not only the community of “Bottom” but how their actions and decision making impacts the relationship between Black males and females. She goes to decipher how white men affect the actions of black men who ultimately affect the black females in the story. The white men are seen as superior, so naturally, the black men want to be like them or at least as powerful as them while still resenting them, not worshiping. They tend to be unsuccessful and resort to black females as the solution to their problems. In the article, Mayberry writes “The bottom is not powerful enough, however, to contain the destructive
Males still see females as patriarchal women, not as leaders or decision makers. But there was a reverse gender role in the film. Miss Ratchet was the leader and convinces her higher ups to keep McMurphy to stay in the mental institution because she thought it was the best decision. The movie showed that her decision was wrong and she shouldn’t have that position in the first place because she supposed to be inferior to men. Moreover, men see themselves superior than woman because of patriarchy system.
There are some ethical issues, including deception, lack of informed consent and possibly psychological harm. The procedure itself is very artificial in that participants are being asked to conform when there is clearly a different and obviously correct answer and it lacks ecological validity because of the fact that the experiment was in a laboratory. Also, the study was andocentric (only studied males) as Eagly and Carli (1981) carried out a meta-analysis of research into conformity they found that women were more likely to conform than men. Another type of conformity is internalisation. Internalisation is when we change our minds about something because the majority have convinced us they are right and so we adjust our behaviour.
These examples just shows how confusing it is in identifying sexual harassment today. How would you answer Limbaugh’s points if you were arguing for the opposition to each of the two points you have selected? For the first point, I would argue that women should not have so much power over men because men were created as the head and as such women should respect their authority. For the second point, I would say that sexual harassment should be limited to only sexual behaviors that are forced unto women and not be based on a man trying to win a woman over by his advances. Sexual harrassment refers to sexual actions.
Evening Things Out Affirmative action in the eyes of some can be considered to be the compromise for reparations. To others it can be looked at as an opportunity for women to be looked at as equals in comparison to their male colleagues. But those who don’t fall into either of those categories look at affirmative action as reverse discrimination or racism. There is an argument that there is truth in all of those statements, but it is more prevalent in the first two than the latter. Minorities were never given the appropriate chance they deserve, and women still can’t get the respect they deserve in the workplace.
written by Katha Pollitt,the obvious and underlying question is whether women are morally superior to men. More specifically, Katha Pollitt brings up the idea of "difference feminism” and asking if it really takes place. "Difference feminism is known as “a woman naturally being superior to men because of their empathy, nurturance, nonhierachial relationships, and concern for equal”(http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/feminism). With "difference feminism the previous is true, rather than men being superier due to cultural and societal norms.It was very interesting to see Katha Pollit’s arguements as opposed to the other’s we read previously. I chose the quote above because it showed that women should not use their stereotypical strengths as an argument for equality.
She felt that his studies were extremely biased to only privileged white men. Unlike Erikson’s eight stages she had only three. Her stages were selfishness, a social or conventional morality, and finally a principled morality. She believed that women had a judgment based on caring for others and that men’s judgment was based on justice and individual rights. The females in her studies were focused on empathy and a responsibility for others.
When Tom said that he felt sorry for Mayella it was wrong in their minds because he is an African American who should not feel bad for a white person whose class is higher. After Tom said this the trial went down hill from there because he said he felt sorry for a white woman, which shows white supremacy in the town. In conclusion, this proves Tom Robinson to be a victim of racial discrimination and white
jazzy Summary and Response (The ugly truth about beauty) In his essay “The ugly truth about beauty” Dave Barry compares and contrast women’s attitude towards toward their physical appearance with men’s. Barry talks about the difference between women and men. Barry states that women do not think of their looks the way men do. Men think that average looking is fine while women care way too much about their appearance. Dave Barry's essay not only suggests how men and women perceive themselves, but also how men perceive women.
In other parts of the world sexism is more prominent because males have dominant roles over women and therefore look down upon them. Not only is there sexism, but there is ambivalent sexism which is defined as sexism directed against women based on both positive and negative attitudes (hostility and benevolence) rather than uniform dislike. To better understand ambivalent sexism I took a test that would rate my hostile and ambivalent sexism. The Ambivalent sexism inventory measure how sexist you are towards men and women. My scores from this test were quite surprising to me.