Thursday, October 8, 2009
"The Men We Carry In Our Minds" Response
I disagree with the essay "The Men We Carry In Our Minds" by Scott Russell Sanders it shows how women in the 1940's to 1950's were perceived as the stay at home mom, while the dad's went off and worked 40 hours or more a week. Women had to stay home to take care of the children, clean and make sure dinner was on the table by the time their husbands got home from work. The men thought that this an easy job, who wouldn't love to stay home take care of children and just sit all day? But in reality the women did basically everything besides bring home the money. Taking care of children is a difficult job, doing the shopping and cleaning takes a lot of energy out of a women. In the mind of a man he thinks he needs to bring home the money and by doing that he is giving is wife and children a comfortable life and showing his son(s) that its your job to do bring home the money and support your wife. But really a woman should have equal opportunity to support their household. Women should be able to college and get a degree in what they have an interest in. Even though some women would enjoy staying at home and letting their husbands be the "bread winner" still women should be given equal opportunity to do what they want. I would want to be given the chance to decide whether or not I would want to help support my family or not.
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I like how strong your opinion of Sander's essay is explained in your response. The information you used to explain helped support your opinion. Your response could have been a little clearer with a little editing, but your transitions were well writen. I couldn't find logical fallicies in your response. Good job.
ReplyDeleteI really liked your response to Sander's essay. You stayed strong in your opinions, but I will agree with alexis that your response would of been easily understood more with some editing. Great job though, you stayed true and logical with no fallicies.
ReplyDeleteIn your reponse to "The Men We Carry In Our Minds" you provided almost all of the guidlines for a critque. You defined your terms clearly, your information was accurate, your information was also relevent, you didn't use logical fallacies, but I'm not sure you used Sanders information fairly. Your arguement against Sanders' is strong. However, In his essay he mentions that if he were older he would have seen the struggles that women faced in their lives as well. I think that even though he only briefly mentioned this, that you should give Sanders credit for saying that women's lives are also difficult. Overall, I liked the strong sense of your opinion, and your response had alot of supporting evidence.
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