Continuing with the next part of Full Frontal Feminism by Jessica Valenti she covers topics like weddings,marriage, baby's and a couple of other interesting topics.Valenti emphasizes on the fact that women are deceived to believe that they should spend most her their live looking for love and their knight in shinning armor. Valenti uses common things like love stories to show how they express women as hopeless individuals that need to be saved. Valenti shows that women spend more money then they have to have weddings like the story they read as kids. Valenti also covers the fact that men make more money then women. Even when a women and men have the same job the men are paid more. Valenti later goes on to talk about the stereotype that men aren't aloud to cry. She uses witty statement to show how dumb the stereotype is and how men should be able to cry when every they feel like it with out people questioning their manhood.
Tone:Satirical
Question 1: Why are women shown as such helpless people in common children stories?
Question 2: Do you think that Valenti's personal experiences are why she seems to have such a dislike for the topics in the book?
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Answer 1: Most children's stories are - or are modeled after - stories that are centuries old, where the idea of women being helpless without men was practically accepted as fact.
ReplyDeleteAnswer 2: Definitely. Feminists are trying to change something that they believe is wrong with the world; those without negative experiences fail to see the level of seriousness in similar situations. If Valenti was positive about the topics in her book, she couldn't properly combat them.