Topic Proposal

For my researched topic I have decided to go in the way of the feminist direction and its contemporary issues. Knowing that this is a broad topic with many different subtopics; I plan to narrow it down and focus on the issue of pornography vs. censorship and the ideas of sexual expression, sexual violence, and the First Amendment. Dealing with pornography and its effects to men's perception of women. This is a topic that i have very little information on, and would like to go in dept researching about it. I feel like this would be a very interesting topic to learn more about, and to find out if it really does have its effects on men's perception to women.

"The Men We Carry In Our Minds"

When Reading "The Men We Carry In our Minds" By Scott Russell Sanders, alot of mixed feelings were occurring in my mind. I agree with most of the essay, but there were a few things that i just couldn't come to terms with that Sanders was saying. I feel that like sanders said in the essay that "men are the ones who've been discredited" because in some ways they have been. They are the ones that had to go off and leave their families to fight wars and to work longs days to take care of their families. In that time that's how it was, and we were all used to this. The one thing that I did disagree with Sanders on was when he thought that all woman believed that "men were guilty of having kept all the joys and privileges to themselves". He based most of these thoughts off of this one woman's opinon that he had met at a university. I believe that everyone doesn't have the same opinion, and that Sanders shouldn't have just used that one example to explain how he felt about it. Other than that one disagreement I think that this essay had a lot of good thoughts that i aligned with very well. He's right men did work very hard back then, maybe more than they should have. Nowadays I'm glad that the work can be equally shared between men and woman,and that complaints about the opposite sex are acceptable because the work between them is in fact equal.